“If so why did he just stand there and not speak?”
Our pastor was just talking about that. “You know - Eve gets a bad rap, being blamed for taking the apple. Adam was standing there with her the entire time. Ya’ think he might have spoke up? ‘Um Eve, I’m not sure this is such a good idea.’”
Although in my mind I was thinking “Even Adam knew enough to keep his mouth shut once his wife had made a decision she wanted something.”
I think it has to do with Gods order regarding males and females. The man being ‘the head’ would likely also come into play.
Keep in mind that part of Eves curse was ...”and your desire shall be to your husband and he shall rule over you”.....Women lost their equality in the garden that day and every women has that sense within them even if they cannot identify it as so.....thank God Jesus restores that!
A woman can be equal and yet understand the order of the family unit before God. Woman today without the Lord do not understand this.....and even today it’s far easier to deceive women than men.
Here is another thing that puzzles me. Animals do not talk, yet the serpent, was physically talking to Eve (I assume Adam was there too) and she (they) understood it. I talk to my dogs all the time, they respond by barking. Since I am not fluent in “bark,” I cannot understand them. It seems to me, Adam and Eve should have freaked out, when an animal spoke to them. I don’t get it.
On the other hand, they may have misunderstood what God meant, when He said they would die. It’s possible they may have thought they would immediately fall over dead. When Adam saw that Eve didn’t die on the spot, maybe he figured it was ok to eat the fruit. We just don’t know what was in their minds. 🤔