Who started the SIN, Adam or Eve?

Well, as the story goes, the serpent convinced Eve, who was curious anyway, that eating the apple was a good idea. Then she ate the apple-- and talked Adam into it. Therefore, she should be considered at fault for both her curiosity, and for talking Adam into breaking the rules as well. However-- Before the apple, both Adam and Eve were innocent, completely. If they had just sat around in the garden and played house, being innocent, there would have been no Cain, no Abel, no Seth, and no other people. Plus, unless we were shown the difference between right and wrong, we would not have the opportunity to CHOOSE either right or wrong. Since God is all-seeing, it stands to reason he KNEW Eve would sin, and bring Adam to sin, before hand. Why else would he have planted the tree there in the first place and told them about it? Would YOU put something in the playpen with your two year old that you didn't want them to have, or was bad for them, and then tell them "no, no"? Doing that would be very foolish, and one would think that God would know better. A lot of evil has come into the world since Adam and Eve left the garden, but a lot of good has come as well, and man has grown-- and anyone who has ever raised a kid knows they don't grow well if you keep them locked up somewhere, and never let them learn anything for themselves.

Eve didn't one day just decide to grab one of those apples from the forbidden tree and take a bite. She was tricked into it by the serpent...the devil. I would say the devil started it but Eve is forced to take the blame since she shared it with Adam.

Both Adam and Eve wanted a kind of knowledge and conciousness that they did not have as part of nature. So they both wanted to have the ability, the intelligence, to acquire it. The bite of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge is just a metaphore. That`s why they were thrown away from Paradise (nature) and placed on the other side of the table. It`s a pity that they (we) acquired the ability ti get knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it. We would not have violence or wars if we did.

Well, it must be Eve, coz she was the one who lured Adam into taking the fruit from the "Tree of Knowledge", when they were clearly told not to.

hi, a very long discussion until now because in the Rizal Park there are still elders who still debating about this,and for me i think eve who started the sin,because she was the one who picked the apple and gave it to Adam,though Adam had also sin because he ate it though he knows it was a forbidden fruit.

As per the Bible Eve is blamed for all, and so all follow that. But my personal opinion both should be blamed, because Adam would have warned her and change her mind, he can stop her and himself from that, but he didn't do that.

I really have no direct answer to this. What the Bible says is what the Bible says I guess. There is really no argument about that and the way the Bible describes is that Eve was lured by the snake(devil) to eat it and asked Adam to join her which Adam also complied to. So it looks like the story is really blaming Eve for trying to convince Adam to take eat it.

not both of them Devil is the one who started If devil does not persuade both of them I believe they stay happily ever after in heaven

In my opinion, Adan and Eve are symbols, just as it`s a sybol that God created the world in 7 days. Sin as I see it is a consequence of our being concious of what we do, That`s why allianated people are not guilty of their wrongdoins. They don`t know the difference between right and wrong.

Adam was Eve's guardian, her protector, her boss. So it's like when you're a kid and you steal something from the candy-store and your parents have to pay for it. You can say it's on account of 'they haven't taught you not to steal yet'; so you can say Eve took the fruit because Adam hadn't taught her to obey yet.

I believe the devil started the SIN actually. He persuaded Eve that she should eat the forbidden fruit. Then she, on her turn, persuaded Adam that he should eat it as well. So both Adam and Eve did exactly the same thing. They were both persuaded to do something they shouldn't. So they both sinned the same way. Lucifer as a snake started everything, knowing that humans are vulnerable.

I guess it just depends on how you see it. They both sinned because they didn't listen to God. Adam didn't protect his wife from the devil who persueded her to eat of the forbidden fruit, and Eve was left wide open to then pass on that sin to her husband.

Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the devil and God punished all three! The thing that srikes me when I read the story is that neither of them knew they were naked until Adam also ate the forbidden fruit. So I conclude that both were responsible. As for the devil he was doing his usual thing of trying to make humans doubt God. 'Did God really say' etc. Jesus faced the same temptation of doubting but thankfully the second Adam did not sin.

The temptation was done by the devil. Sin was done by both Adam and Eve. It is not Eve alone. Adam got the choice of eating the forbidden fruit or not. God forbid them to eat the fruit of that tree. Even if Eve told him to eat the fruit, he won't eat it if he wanted to obey God..and not the woman. There was this joke before: God: Adam, Why did you eat the fruit? Adam:The woman you made told me to eat it. Eve: The serpent tricked me. Serpent: I live in this tree, I'm just doing my part. Forbidden Tree: I didn't plant myself here, you, God, You made me. Should God be blamed? It was written as a joke, but if you think it over, it serves a lesson. God permitted temptation, but it's Adam and Eve's choice to eat the forbidden fruit. They have different minds to obey God or not.

I believe that the sin was due to the fact that we humans were deceived. Eve was the first one to be deceived, and yes she took a bite of the apple, and yet... the sin did not stop there and then even adam was pursuaded by eve (by the snake's pushing her to do so as well) to take a bite of the same apple. What confused me with this story though was the fact that whilst we know that God is all knowing, how come he was not there to see and stop this from happening? :D

Eve gets the blame for sinning first, but she was deceived and Adam was not, so I say they both get the blame. Eve is to blame for being deceived and not listening to Adam, and Adam is to blame for partaking even when he knew it was wrong. He was not deceived. When I think of this I always wonder why didn't Adam stop her? Was he secretly lusting after the fruit and used her ignorance as an excuse to partake? We don't know, but we know Adam was quick to blame Eve when his sin was found out. See I Timothy 2:14 and Genesis 3:12.

The serpent tricked Eve and she got tempted to eat the forbidden fruit. She offered it to Adam and he accepted it. So who is to be blamed? Eve for getting tricked or Adam for listening to her?

Shavkat: I believe that each of them should bare the responsibility for their own actions. God told both Adam and Eve not to take from the tree. Both were disobedient. Eve should not allowed herself to be swayed by the serpent and Adam should have also exercised his free will and refused Eve's offer to eat the fruit. I don't believe Adam disobeyed God out of love for Eve.

Nobody committed sin first.Sin was there.And when human beings gave an entry in to their life,it followed them through generation.We needn't blame the male or the female, it can use any situation to defeat and overcome us.So let us learn to overcome it,rather than find the person who caused the sin.

Well, your question is a choice between Adam or Eve. So that my answer is Eve. Eve started the sin in the garden. Adam follows. However, both are responsible for their actions.