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How hard was that????

hard enough that both the world's strongest, most intelligent, sinless and physically and mentally capable man an woman were unable to resist.

standing as the BEST mankind had to offer after spending who KNOWS how much time in God's direct company, (at least for the length of time it took for ADAM to name EVERY living creature, species, subspecies of flora and fauna... over a million bugs to start with), our most developed male and female were BOTH unable to resist the temptation.

Perhaps the temptation was a bit more persuasive than the scriptures reveal at a surface reading. Regardless, you and every other living human being, save one, would have fallen, given that same temptation and whatever it fully entailed.

Perhaps the fullness of that temptation was beyond the scope of fallen men and women to understand, so God had Moses boil the description of it down to the lowest and simplest common denominator we could grasp and still be true.

Perhaps GOD had no choice but to allow Satan admittance to the persons of Adam and Eve. The bible may be true, but it is clearly NOT exhaustive in it's expostion of the intricacies of every aspect of creation, temptation and redemption.

Lots of theories by theologians regarding the fall.
We only know that NONE of us could have resisted it either...

"hard enough that both the world's strongest, most intelligent, sinless and physically and mentally capable man an woman were unable to resist. "

No. They were able to resist. They chose not to. Had they been unable, there could have been no condemnation. Further we are assured by the Lord that He will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we are able.

So "unable" is not an excuse.

Had we been born in the garden and not inherited a rebelious fallen nature, we might have avoided sin altogether. We weren't so we will not ever know.