Why did the devil choose Eve in the Fall of Man?

Question

I'm doing a Theology 10 paper on the Fall of Man and i remember my teacher saying something about the reason the devil chose to trick Eve with the fruit instead of Adam. i honestly cant remember. I remember that it makes so much sense and it required a bit of thought to think of. My one friend actually was the only one that figured it out. Any ideas? thanks!

No, Adam was right next to eve the WHOLE time this was going on. We talked about how Adam shouldn't have even let the serpent get near her let alone talk to her because it was his job to take care of and protect everything in the garden.

And who the heck is steve?

They were allowed to eat of the tree of life, although they had no reason do because before they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and bad they they were immortal. They both ate from the same tree.

Gawsh isn't there any theologians on yahoo answers? that's who i really need. Not guesses. People that KNOW the answers.

Yo, alsimpson dude! Go away! I'm not freaking challenging religion! I'm Catholic! Gawsh. I'm doing a Paper for HIGH SCHOOL!!!! Stop posting that stupid quote on every religion question on this website!!

THATS JUST IT! It wasnt a literal interpretation i'm doing; its contextual. read between the lines!!! I dont care if it doesnt say she was tempted or whatever, she was tricked, i know! But the Devil targeted Eve for a specific reason!

YES YES YES!! Pozitive thinking person or w/e you got it! As soon as i can choose a best answer, yours is it! The devil knew eve could get Adam to eat the fruit, Adam would not do it if the devil told him to. Anyway, Eve wasnt really tricked, it was more of a threat. I'm not gonna explain it its too long to type. But thats just my interpretation. =)

Answer 1

Because Eve could convince Adam to eat of the tree of knowledge also. Adam could have never done that to Eve.

Answer 2

I wonder why don't you go back to your teacher and ask him?

Anyways, the answer to your question depends on the creation of Eve. Now, we all know that God created Adam from dust, but Eve was created from one of Adams ribs. Here lies the symbolism; the human ribs are not straight. They are crooked (curved), a quality meant to symbolize the nature of Eve. Also being Adam created first, makes Eve secondary to him, which has been the case for thousands of years, before the emancipation of the women.

In the light of the above, Adam would not be a good choice to seduce as he lived and was fully aware of his creator far before Eve was created. Eve would be then the right choice; she is corruptible. However a question might still emerge here. That is: Why did Adam then sin by listening to Eve. Wouldn’t this defeat the purpose of what is mentioned above about Adam being created first and being aware of his creator? On the surface it does, but deep down, there is another symbolism. This time the symposium refers to something very important; so important that it makes the world go around, i.e. S E X. Yes sex…Eve is the female who, contrary to the animal's kingdom, is the beautiful and seductive one, who can tempt and fog the man's brain by the steam of her sexuality and seduction.

Well, whether the ancient opinion symbolized in the story of Adam and Eve is right or wrong, accurately descriptive of qualities of either gender, or not, is not the point here. The point, which I always wondered about, is--Is the story of Adam and Eve true as it is?

Well, the rest of the story including what is mentioned about the tree of knowledge, the tree of immortality, God's worries that Adam may next time eat from the tree of immortality, therefore he would become one of the God's (one of us), as well as the sword set up to protect that area of paradise where the tree is---All this tells me that the whole story is nothing but a beautiful piece of literature, i.e. it is not true and never happened. Then I happened to stumble over the Babylonian and Sumerian mythology on the topic of creation. Biblical stories like Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve, Creation, etc have a very striking similarity with the mythology stories.

I do have no shadow of doubt that the authors of the Bible quoted from the Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, since the mythology existed first. The only thing that will change my mind is a tangible evidence that both the Bible and the mythology have quoted their stories from a far more ancient religion or mythology.

I am not a theologian by profession, but I studied comparative religion for approximately 7 years.

Answer 3

Adam ate the apple of his own volition, yet Eve was blamed for the Fall of Man.

I have two theories:

1) Moses never would have written that it was Adam's fault, he wrote that it was the woman's fault. There's NO WAY humanity would ever be able to swallow the truth at that time, because of the way people thought of women back then. "Adam's fault? No, blame it on the woman, they're an easy target. This Moses guy is ridiculous, forget him." If it's the man's fault, no one would listen to Moses. If it's the woman's fault, this would be accepted, and they'd be open to God.

2) Moses could have written the truth, that it was both Adam and Eve who disobeyed God, but the early Church fathers twisted things around in the Bible translations, making it Eve's fault and not Adam's. I don't know Hebrew and couldn't read a Hebrew Bible to see for myself what exactly Moses wrote. Either way, the truth wasn't taught to the masses - that Adam was responsible for his own actions, and is equally responsible for the Fall of Man. What people were more comfortable believing was taught to the masses - that it was all Eve's fault, and that women are evil.

Btw, I don't believe in the literal story of creation, nor do I believe in Satan at all. However, I do respect that you are doing a paper.

Answer 4

Women are vonerable that is why they have learn to lean on each other for help.She was decieved and she brought the fruit home to Adam and Adam wasn't decieved but he ate it knowing what he did.The woman believed the devil's lie when he said she would not die but would be one wiser knowing both good and evil.She thought about it and decided to believe the devil over God and that is how we got where we are today.We are in the same boat as Eve was now. We are doubting God's word as truth and believing the devil's lies everyday. We are in the same shoes to a certain exstint. She didn't know sin until that day. That day was when sin entered into her life and the life of Adam. That day was the day when the Glory of God depatred from them and they begain to live in sin continually. Jesus came to redeem man back from sin.

Answer 5

Choosing Eve gave him a two-for-one. Tricking Eve was how he got to Adam.

Or it could of been a simple case of Eve was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When I think about it, getting either one of them would have gotten the other one. Remember, Adam AND Eve took God literally when he said DO NOT EAT LEST YE WILL SURELY DIE. When Eve (could of been Adam just the same) ate it and didn't die that is what convinced the other.

The death God was talking about wasn't immediate, BTW, it was more of a prediction.

God Bless

Answer 6

hmm, several possibilities.
1. Lucifer had tried Adam first, but Adam had the strength of will to refuse.

2. Eve was easy...to manipulate. Women are prone to sales pitches.

3. Eve showed up first and went along with it.

4. Free will and human nature are easily turned against itself.

Good luck.

Answer 7

Hm.. I don't know; Maybe she was the first one to come near the tree. Really, maybe she was just there.

Sorry, well, maybe Eve was tempted because it was a patriarchal society. That way, Woman could be blamed for Man's problems.

Maybe the devil knew that Eve could convince Adam to eat the fruit.

Or maybe the story just goes by the stereotype that women would give in more easily.

Answer 8

First you have to know and understand the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the fruit or seed of Satan.

Once you know that then understand the motive was to destroy the seedline through which Christ would be born. Satan was seducing Eve sexually to disrupt the plan of God to introduce Christ into this world of flesh.

You might not get an "A" for believing that but it's the truth.

Answer 9

The Bible does not say directly why.
Paul, in Romans, says that she was "deceived."
Adam was not deceived, but sinned knowing the command and the consequences.
Reading the story in Gen 3, it appears that Adam was standing next to Eve when Satan tempted her; shame on him for not speaking up.

When Satan questions Eve about why not eat the fruit, she misquotes the prohibition of God, adding to it. Th command was not to EAT the fruit, Eve said that they were not to eat the fruit, NOR touch it, lest they die.
Now, either Adam instructed her incorrectly on the prohibition, or she misunderstood the prohibition, or else she had twisted the prohibition in her mind and resentment was already there when he tempted her.

Answer 10

"one is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it... You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world...
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I can not, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in early days to fix the calender, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others" Bertrand Russell