True. Even so it is hard to fathom his motivation. Did Adam suddenly become stupid? He had absolutely every privilege that God could give a man, plus an entire orchard of delectable fruit trees, plus a beautiful wife given to him personally by God (and little or no work in keeping the Garden shipshape). Yet he behaved like an idiot.
brother it’s the very first false doctrine
adams motivation came from the same thing eves did the
false doctrine that changed their thinking from what God had actually said about the fruit , over to what the serpent said about the fruit.
came from the serpent to eve , then Was spread to Adam.
“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? ( what did God say about the trees again ?)
And
the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: ( just what God said )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. ( also what God said plus a new and wise policy
dont even touch it if they stick to this faith in their kind and heart they would never eat the fruit )
And
the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die: ( don’t believe Gods warning about the consequence it’s not true )
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. ( the fruit is actually beneficial and God knows that )
And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, ( her mind now has changed from its poison we will die if we touch or eat it )
and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, ( she’s now really looking at how pretty it is because she thinks it’s going to make her wise the result of this mind twist and deception )
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her;
and he did eat. ( this isn’t a suicide pact it’s a result of the deception and lie being received into thier minds serpent to eve and eve to Adam )
And
the eyes of them both were opened, and
they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.( now they see ashamed before they weren’t )
And
they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and
Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God ( now they are hiding from God in shame and guilt and fear before they were not ashamed or afraid of his presence ) amongst the trees of the garden.”
Genesis 3:1-8 KJV
what went wrong was
they should have believed what God who created them in his image and blessed them and gave the The earth , said
and rejected what the serpent said about the fruit. Explaining God lied and it would t hurt then but help them. But eve listened to the serpent , and Adam then listened to eve.
It appears like they are both standing side by side here
“she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her;
and he did eat.”
but as you read on you see what happened better
“And unto Adam he said,
Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; ( Adam is blamed by god because Adam is the one given dominion and rule eve was made from Adam then ) in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;”
Genesis 3:17 KJV
The lie came into eve and corrupted her mind and she ate the fruit , then she said to Adam the same message and also probably said “ I ate some and I’m fine and
now I really see a lot of things I didn’t before
Its why false doctrine all through the Bible we’re earned can destroy people and lead them away from God it’s always been that way the thing that redeems the mind and beret is the truth