-Removed-"...pride in his own judgment and the resultant action was his disobedience."
How you glean from the scripture that Adam had pride and that that is what caused him to disobey is beyond me.
How can an innocent have pride?
Other than Adam's own words "it was the woman you gave me" that he used as an excuse for his disobedience, I can find no reason for it.
-Removed-Some how we're misunderstanding each other.
I agree. Adam is to blame. Not Eve.
No, I don't think Adam's transgression was accidental, but it wasn't because of sin that Adam disobeyed. Adam was without sin until he disobeyed.
Why on earth did Adam disobey? I honestly don't know.
Eve, as we know, was "beguiled", but Adam wasn't. He knew what the consequences would be, but chose to disobey anyway. Why? I don't know.
I can find nothing concrete about "why" Adam disobeyed in the account in the scriptures. Only that he did, and then found himself naked and exposed.
-Removed-Because basically I think that the authors I quoted are essentially conveying the same message as the Genesis story (or at least what I interpret it to be). They just tell it in very different ways. I don't think the stories were intended to be taken literally. They were understood to be poetic devices for conveying some basic truths.
Originally posted by josephwWhat caused The Fall was the inability of an expanding population to continue living as hunter-gatherers. Agriculture, private property, and civil society became necessary evils which resulted in The Fall. Jesus' message was about retaining the advantages of civilization while recapturing mankind's primeval innocence from before The Fall.
What is at the heart of the fall was it's cause. Disobedience.
What you state are the effects. And I would agree.