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14 hours ago, johnthebaptist said:

I trust the Bible to be an accurate account. Paul's letters are genuine. I just don't think Paul was right 100% of the time.

Are you saying only Paul letters are genuine?    

 

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14 hours ago, johnthebaptist said:

Adam also ate the fruit, so I would say he also was deceived.

Believe what you like - the Scripture clearly says Adam was NOT deceived.

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It probably means: women shouldn’t yell out questions in church. Women as Christians had new involvement in the Church, as opposed to Judaism.  So maybe they needed to learn how to be more involved without causing chaos. 

Or Jesus, through Paul, May have meant exactly as it it stated. 

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9 hours ago, RogerDC said:

Are you saying only Paul letters are genuine?    

 

No, I assume all the epistles are genuine.

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8 hours ago, RogerDC said:

Believe what you like - the Scripture clearly says Adam was NOT deceived.

Adam knew he wasn't supposed to eat the fruit and he ate it any way. I would call that being deceived.

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9 hours ago, RogerDC said:

Believe what you like - the Scripture clearly says Adam was NOT deceived.

 

11 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said:

No, I assume all the epistles are genuine.

Mature people take responsibility for their own sins. I doubt Adam blamed Eve for the sin he committed.

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23 hours ago, Margo1945 said:

quite frankly, I think Paul and Timothy were chauvinistic at times .. lol 

I might have to agree with your assessment of Paul. Did Timothy make similar remarks? I think Peter did.

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9 hours ago, RogerDC said:

Believe what you like - the Scripture clearly says Adam was NOT deceived.

Can you change the Bible?

For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression (1 Timothy 2:13,14)

 

Though Eve was deceived by the serpent, Scripture seems to say that Adam was not:
 

For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression (1 Timothy 2:13,14).
 


Adam's sin is usually characterized as deliberately eating of the fruit after his wife was deceived. It is contended that he was not deceived but that he purposely ate of the tree. We are not told why he did it. There have been several suggestions as to why he would do something like this.

1.Perish With Wife Together?

It is argued that Adam ate of the fruit so that he could perish with his wife. This view sees Adam committing an act of great love. Eve was now in a sinful condition and he did not want her to be alone in this lost state. Thus he also ate the fruit. This romantic explanation has no basis in Scripture. Adam's guilt is assumed along with Eve's. Furthermore, Adam's attitude toward Eve was anything but romantic when confronted by God about his sin.
 

The man said, The woman you put here with me - she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it (Genesis 3:12).


He blamed his wife. What a difference from his experience about her before the Fall.
 

The man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man (Genesis 2:23).
 

2.Curiosity

It may have been that Adam merely wanted to try the fruit and see what it was like. He may have wondered what the result would be if he entered into a sinful state. Therefore Adam sinned out of curiosity rather than from the deception of Satan. His sin was desiring to discover something new - something he had no business finding out about. The Bible warns us about being babes when it come to the knowledge of evil.
 

Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults (1 Corinthians 14:20).


3.After Eve

Some interpreters see this a different way. This passage may be emphasizing that Adam was not deceived first. That is Adam was deceived by Satan but not until after his wife had been deceived. The emphasis then would be on the timing of Adam's being deceived, not the fact that he was not deceived. Either way it was his personal choice to go against the clear Word of God.

Summary

Adam's role in the Fall is something that is not clear. For whatever reason, he ate of the fruit of the forbidden tree. Whether deceived or not, the responsibility was certainly his and his alone.https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_708.cfm

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3 minutes ago, maryjayne said:

No, Adam blamed God for creating Eve.

 

People always blame when they are caught.

Or, they blame others for their mistakes.

I find it humorous that Atheists will blame God when their life falls apart into destruction.

Its rare to find someone who takes all the credit for the mess they made.

"Human nature" is the nature of the Devil. And the Devil is the father of lies, and is the most pride filled of all., so, this is why our adamic nature, our "human nature" always reacts with pride and blame, as the initial reaction.

Finger Pointing is the Devil's "sign gift".

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1 hour ago, maryjayne said:

No, Adam blamed God for creating Eve.

 

I don't remember that.

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