Adam watched Eve eat. So? How does that transpose that Adam and all fathers pass sin on to the children. How did Adam know better than Eve. Are you being sexist in claiming that Adam knew better but Eve did not?
Call it sexist all you want. God tells us that the husband is the head of the wife like Christ is the head of the church.
God gave Adam instructions about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil BEFORE Eve was created. It was clearly then Adam's responsibility to tell Eve. Either he didn't pass the message along correctly, or Eve didn't get it right.
Either way, when Adam heard Eve talking with the serpent, he didn't intervene, nor did he correct her error in what God Himself told Adam.
Furthermore, he WATCHED her eat and then when nothing obvious happened to her, he ate as well.
Scripture also tells us that Eve was deceived. Adam was not. He ate KNOWING.
So, yes, sin entered through Adam and corrupted the whole human race and it is HIS responsibility.
Do you not understand WHY Jesus did not have a sin nature?
So man's sin was in permitting a woman to sin. Can you imagine the treatment some poor guy would get if he tried to tell some of the women on this thread what was and was not acceptable behavior? The term "hell to pay" doesn't come close to what I imagine it would be.
So how does Metmom's hypothesis comport with ones Jewishness coming through the mother.
Peace be with you
She wasn't around to hear the command GOD gave him?
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”