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Offline Vintagewife3

Re: What if Adam had refused to taste the forbidden fruit?
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2018, 12:44:45 PM »
It wasn’t just her sin that brought our Lord to such suffering. Both of their sins combined did. I feel as if God would have had to punish them together because they were “married”. But again, there are multiple outcomes.
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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: What if Adam had refused to taste the forbidden fruit?
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2018, 12:50:42 PM »
Exactly.  It was Adam's sin that caused Christ to have to redeem the human race.  Eve's sin was her own, but spiritually, the mother does not affect the children to the same degree as the father (i.e. Adam) because the husband is the head of the family, so his sin is greater and has more consequences.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: What if Adam had refused to taste the forbidden fruit?
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2018, 12:55:47 PM »
Another interesting aspect of the question is:  would Adam have been held accountable for the sin of Eve because he was her head, or was that relationship due to the post-Fall subjection of woman to man?
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: What if Adam had refused to taste the forbidden fruit?
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2018, 12:56:23 PM »
Asking questions like this might seem silly, but it helps to elucidate the principles behind what actually happened:  about the nature of Original Sin, about its transmission, about the relationship between husband/wife before the Fall and after the Fall, etc.  One poster here said they were married.  Were they?

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Offline klasG4e

Re: What if Adam had refused to taste the forbidden fruit?
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2018, 01:05:43 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on December 18, 2018, 12:55:47 PM
Another interesting aspect of the question is:  would Adam have been held accountable for the sin of Eve because he was her head, or was that relationship due to the post-Fall subjection of woman to man?
I once heard it said that Adam committed the first sin in falling asleep at the switch so to speak -- in negligently letting the snake get into the Garden in the first place!
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