Monsignor Pope Ping!
Interesting. Thank you for posting.
Scriptures are far, far more insightful and enduring than political correctness.
Once again, Pope, Charles nails it. It has occurred to me that in addition to being the start of the Salvation Plan for mankind, Eden was the first “honey trap” designed for Satan. God made Eve so cute and nice that Satan could not resist messing with her. He chose poorly!
There are a lot of contradictions in this article and commentary of the story of Adam and Eve.
First it is silly to ascribe to all women the failure of the first.
How did Eve sin? She was beguiled by Satan but Eve knew what she wanted, she wanted knowledge. She wanted to progress. She wanted to be “like God”.
Adam had a problem when confronted by Eve with the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Apparently he had no desire to progress and be like God, does that mean that all his male descendants would want the same thing, I think not. In this I think the Apostle Paul erred, but to be fair that was the thinking in his time.
Adam wanted to be with Eve and Adam wanted to obey the commandment to replenish the earth. Without Eve he must have realized that he could not.
Adam could not obey both commandments, that is to replenish the earth and not partake of the fruit of knowledge so he broke the lesser of the two commandments. He did break the commandment to not partake of the fruit. There is no way one can successfully make an argument that he did not break a commandment for he did eat of the fruit. Because he partook of the fruit death entered into the world but along with death because he partook also came new life into the world as he knew his wife Eve and had children, therefore we are here.