Eve Is To Blame For The Fall Of Humanity Essay

“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate." This text is at the heart of the question of who is to blame for the fall of humanity, even further on in the Bible we see Adam and Eve having the same issue of assigning blame.

And He [God] said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

But, who is really at fault for the fall of humanity and allowing sin to enter into the world? In this paper, I show how Eve is not the only one to blame for the fall of humanity. I show this by (1) I will show the argument by those who believe Eve is solely to blame for the fall of humanity and (2) I will raise questions to that view by demonstrating my argument, that Eve is not the only one to blame for the fall of humanity.

According to Thomas Nelson, Eve is the only one to blame for the fall of humanity because she took the fruit and gave it to Adam. He says that Adam was not deceived, but Eve was and she fell into transgression. Bill Moyers says that Eve is the one to blame because her punishments are harsher, she is punished by being subservient to her husband. Nonna Harrison takes a quote from Teruallian who believes that Eve is the one that caused sin to enter into the

In the Hebrew text, the burden of the fall is the responsibility of the first human being, meaning Adam, who alone hears God’s divine rule. If we blame Eve alone it can alter the way we understand Genesis 3:6 and how we form our ideas about what the Bible says about women. One of my biggest arguments for not blaming Eve alone is the phrase ‘akal and how the tenses it is used in, in the Hebrew texts shows how many people are where. This helps the reader see who God was talking to in Genesis 2 and helps us see that more people are present that just Eve when she and the serpent are talking in Genesis 3. Parker states why it is so important to translate the text fully and accurately, “Translators should beware of imposing androcentric biases and should guard against linguistic choices that skew the text against women.” The loss of one word may seem meaningless when it is translated into another language such as English, but the removal of any word can drastically change the message the story is trying to tell, which is what we see in Genesis