Eve ate the apple, but Adam was not much better, she was beguiled by satan, he was a coward and blamed his wife. He did not take responsibility for his action either and that’s what got them kicked out...Eve was not totally responsible for losing Eden.. I wonder what would have happened if Adam said NO.
Doncha just love the way Adam blames Eve, and then GOD (!), for the whole apple thing?
“It was the woman...that YOU put here.”
I imagine God would have known that also, and things would probably be different.
I've wondered too.
Would there have just been Adam and no other people in the future after Eve died?
Would God have said, “OK, since you resisted, I'm going to forgive Eve?”
Would women be prone to sin, and not men?
Opens up a whole can of serpents.
Adam knew exactly what would happen if he said no. Which is why he at the apple.
There would be no human race if Adam said no. He also loved Eve despite her sin.
And Eve also tried to wriggle out of responsibility by blaming the snake. Everyone tried to blame others. (And Adam didn’t just blame Eve, he tried to blame God too - “The woman you gave me...”).
Rationalization is the second greatest human drive. And that is why Adam ate the apple, because there’s one drive ahead of rationalization.
It is interesting to me that God did not drive out the woman from the garden, just the man:
So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.