Temptation of Adam

Temptation of Adam
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“Temptation of Adam: A Reflection of Women’s Weakness?”
Introduction
Genesis is the first chapter of the Bible that starts with the story of God’s creation. After creating the Earth, the plants, sky, water, all living and non-living things, God decided to create man and woman who would take care of his creations. Thus, Adam and Eve came into the picture. Contrary to the beautiful beginning of the chapter, Genesis 2-3 recounted the story of the fall of the first two people in the universe after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Worse, many Christians believed that this event became the reason of our “original sin”, which could only be vanished through baptism.
Exegesis
Many biblical scholars believed that the most common and best way to examine how God’s children succumbed to Satan’s temptation lay in the story of Genesis. According to Genesis 3: 1-6: “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, ‘Has God indeed said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden”?’ And the woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, “You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.”’ Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be…