This is an excellent reflection in my opinion.
First, Paul does highlight a distinction between the sins of Adam and Eve. Basically, Eve was deceived and Adam just flat out disobeyed. Eve could hide behind a sin of ignorance, and Adam could not. The reason for that might well have been her beauty. I’ve thought as well that it might have been his protective nature....if she’s going down then so am I. In other words, he sided with her despite the cost.
This would explain in some measure God’s subjecting her to him. One would think it would be the other way around: deceived versus rebellion. Even though Adam was culpable, he was culpable in the way a starving man is culpable for stealing bread to feed his family.
I also liked his point about female led churches being more likely to be moving toward apostasy.
This comports with the churches of Pergamum and Thyratira in Revelation’s “Letters to the Churches”.
Agreed. It is thoughtful. But it’s extraneous, too. The sin for both unarguably is disobedience, a fault (never mind SIN) nearly extinct today even from the Catholic pulpit.
Regardless of Adam’s fellowship (with Eve) and Eve’s credulity (if that’s all it was, and I don’t believe that’s all it was), both failed to observe God’s lone stricture.
And that Roman Catholic explanation (disobedience) vies with most if not all protestant rationales. Probably for good reason: disobedience couldn’t be THE Original Sin, because their break with Catholicism, their failure to obey, would have mirrored the first, and arguably most significant, sin. So their contention is that the first sin had something to do with sex, with lust or weakness of the flesh, avarice, and, in some cases, even with marital procreation. Not obedience. Which is strange. Obedience does and must suffuse all “religion,” or it couldn’t be termed religion, from the Latin “to bind.”
I believe it goes deeper than that--and this is why the Fall is so bad:
Adam knew Eve had just sinned. I bet the thoughts in his mind at the time is that Eve was going to die--either spiritually or physically. So he chose to be with eve rather than God.
Adam consciously forsook God and abandoned Him. That was his sin.
A little adaptation, with no irreverence meant toward the Word of God, but how it can apply to today in the ideological sense.
The first "Occupy movement," and "Share the wealth" demand: "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:" (Isaiah 14:13)
And the socialist liberal was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made, And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?...God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil
He has no right to that reserve that power to Himself, to give it to those he decides, as well as to occupy His throne alone, and to reward only faith-overcomers to sit with Him. (cf. Rv. 3:21) He is treating you unjustly. He needs to share the wealth, and you need to occupy His position by rejecting His principles of righteousness, grace and recompense. Always remind deceive yourself that you are a victim!
And the woman, being deceived, saw that the tree was good for food, to satisfy her lust for the best food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, so that all others would admire her for her external appearance, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, so she could be the proud intellectual elite others would reverence, then she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat. And then she gave it unto her husband with her; and he did eat, not wanting to split the vote, though he knew better. (Genesis 3:6)
Thus by one man leftist liberalism entered into the world, and death by its policies, and so death passed upon all classes of babes and men.
Close but needs improvement.