Ladislaus
I actually wonder sometimes what would have happened if Eve had given in but then Adam didn't follow suit. Interesting exercise in speculative theology there. Would God have made Adam another companion? Or, alternatively, would their offspring have Original Sin transmitted through Eve alone had Adam not fallen?
Do the Church Fathers address this topic? Did St. Thomas Aquinas?
My opinion is expressed below, so notice the use of modal verbs and the hypothetical "if".
If Adam had refused Eve's request to taste of the forbidden fruit, then Adam, as head of the First Family, could have prayerfully led Eve to repentance as acts of repentance and forgiveness are graces from God. Then Adam would have fulfilled his role as Priest, Prophet, and King. When the two met Christ on their daily walks in Eden, then Adam could have begged Christ to forgive Eve, and things could have been restored.
But would that initial rebellious sin of Eve have left a weakness that could have been passed onto their offspring? Would Christ as Savior and Redeemer still need to be born to redeem us?
We must also ask: Why was Christ our eternal King and God known as the Incarnate God? He created the world, and appeared as the Incarnate God in His daily walks in the Garden of Eden even before His Incarnation as a New Born Child.
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O Happy Fault that merited such and so
great a Redeemer!"
Even St. David the Psalmist begged forgiveness and was forgiven long before the birth of Christ. Psalm 50 is a product of that repentance.
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