What would have happened if Eve had eaten of the fruit and Adam had not?

Question

In the Bible version of Adam and Eve, Eve chose to eat the forbidden fruit and then gave it to Adam and he ate it as well.

What do you think would have happened if Eve had eaten and Adam had refused? And why do you think Adam also ate the fruit (he didn't have the Serpent tempting him).

Answer 1

He may have had to lose another rib.

Answer 2

By the very fact that Adam was right there while Eve was tempted and did not intervene when she ate, shows that Adam was already in the wrong. Eating the fruit also just compounded the trouble he was already, essentially in.

Adam did not cover his wife. By that, I mean that when Eve was talking to the serpent, Adam should have stepped right in and reminded Eve that God meant what He said. Instead, Adam sat back and watched to see what was going to happen - then, when nothing happened, he partook in the fruit munching.

In the longrun, I believe that Adam would have been in just as much trouble for allowing his wife to not just be tempted, but to go forward in the suggestion of the temptation.

Answer 3

First of all, the story of Adam and Eve is just that -- a story. It was the Jewish explanation for how humanity began, and why the world is in such a mess. Because the Jewish culture was male-dominated and patriarchal, Eve was cast as weak and sinful, the cause of man's ills. (The Greeks did the same thing in the story of Pandora's box.) The Jewish culture also decided that God was good and powerful, and thus male.

For the story to be different, Jewish culture would have to have been different -- female-dominated and matriarchal, like the Minoan civilization. Religions like Judaism replaced the worship of the Great Mother. Some scholars believe the serpent in Eden is a symbolic reference to that older cult.

There is another Jewish tradition that Eve was not the first woman, but rather Lilith. She was a strong-minded and independent woman, and she ended up leaving Eden to strike out on her own. But she got cut out of the biblical version completely.

Answer 4

You mention the Bible version ... is there another?

This is an allegorical tale of how evil entered the world. Eve couldn't have eaten alone because both men and women do things that are considered evil at times. The only way that the story could have been told with Eve only eating, would be if males never sinned, or rather, if males never "knew" that they sinned, for the Bible states that it was the tree of the "knowledge" of good and evil.

In any case, the tree, the fruit ... it's not a historical event, but merely a myth to explain that evil is disregard for rules that we know to be good for us. People have always asked the same question, namely "why?" This is a tale to explain on a symbolic level why we sin when we know it to be wrong.

Answer 5

Adam Prob would still be alive today, chances are that the Earth would have been Filled by now with Righteous Children Brought Forth with a new and appreciative Wife, and Who knows Satan may have been Destroyed at this point In time.

Answer 6

Boy, that's a great question!

Hard to say. Eve for sure would have been cast out of Eden. Just a guess here, but I think that Adam would have probably gone with her, since she WAS his life mate.

Just a guess-I don't really have an answer.

Answer 7

Most likely, Eve would have received the same punishment as doled out in the bible. As Eve was Adam's wife, and (from our modern eyes) somewhat akin to his possession, God would not have exiled her (indeed, it was Adam he exiled). It is likely that humans would be unaging but that women would still have painful childbirth, be under the thumb of (ageless) men in a way similar to that of biblical times, and that they would have problems with snakes.

On the bright side, we would all be living in something akin to Eden, death would be rare, and God would be among us, literally.

People forget that the greatest harm to the human race came from Adam's sin, not Eve's.

Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com

Answer 8

well if you read the verse in context adam was right there being the most usless guy in the world when she ate the fruit and god had given him responsiblity over the garden. so that seems unlikly cause if adam didnt eat the fruit but told her to go ahead that would probably piss off god just as much as if he had eaten it.

Answer 9

eva sin so she was sentence to die by disobedience to god test, he said" the day you eat it, u` ll die" so he would still had been alive god create them perfec in a garden eden to fulfill it with their offsprings.adan would had get another women(eva)to carry on with the purpose, fillout the earth ,make it a garden paradise and live happily forever without sin death,illness,suffering. some people said we are made to live forever at the end we just used 0.05% of our brain capacity in a life time, after all wich one of us wants to die.

god(jeova) purpose will be fulfilled

Answer 10

She'd be aroused in a fury and kill ADM before He knew what was going on... She'd set fire to the forest and scream laughing at the moon.

Answer 11

For Christ's sake..WHAT FRUIT..

Eve "ate"..(partook) of the tree
The tree was Satan , Lucifer, The Old Serpent.