Adam was with Eve during the temptation and did not stop her from eating, which was his responsibility as the head of the home,
He should have stepped right up the moment Satan misquoted the one verse of Scripture God gave to man. Somehow there was a breakdown of communication between what God told Adam and what Eve said what the command was.
God never told them they couldn’t touch the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He only said not to eat of it.
Adam blew it on several levels and missed more than one opportunity to intervene.
Since God gave him authority over all creation, he could have simply ordered Satan to leave and that would have been the end of it.
Then the question arises of whether each and every individual would be faced with that same choice and whether sin would not have entered the world at some point or another.
Matt 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.The desire to eat the fruit was sufficient to reveal the condition of their hearts. Eating the fruit simply opened their eyes. God asked them "who told thee that thou wast naked?"
A good summation of what happened.
the bible does not say Adam was right next to Eve.
The Bible does not say Adam had authority over all creation. Gen 1:28 subdue the earth Gen 2:15 keep the garden of Eden. You are reading more into the Bible then it says.
Since God gave him authority over all creation, he could have simply ordered Satan to leave and that would have been the end of it.
...but he didn’t. He did the only thing that would allow him to stay with Eve. He partook. How perceptive of you.
While we can see what the devil presumed, sought and how he operated from reading other texts, but we must be careful about reading details into the Gn. 3 account that simply are not there, and can be expected to be there if important, and nowhere is it actually said that the devil was present with Eve when she ate, which is the only time Adam come into the picture.
Now the serpent 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? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For 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.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Genesis 3:1-6)
In any case, Adam should have refrained from going along with his helpmeet, who did not help in this case.