Silent:
I’ll say it again… EVE was culpible… I am not saying she did not sin! … WHAT I AND THE CHURCH ARE SAYING: Is that it’s Adams fault.
When easter comes around this time and they sing the beautiful ancient hymn in the darkness of your church… I want you to pay attention to the words: “Oh happy fault of ADAM…who bought for us so great a redeemer”
His wife would have not been attacked if Adam took his job seriously and “DEFENDED THE GARDEN”.
both in Scripture and Tradition when this sin is referred to formally by name it is called the “Sin of Adam” or “Adam’s Sin.” It is also described as coming to us “through one man” not “through Adam and Eve” or “through a man and a woman.” Consider the following quotes from Scripture and then from the Catechism:
1.Like Adam, they [Israel] have broken the covenant— they were unfaithful to me there. (Hosea 6:7)
2.Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man….death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam…. (Rom 5:12, 14)
3.For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. (1 Cor 15:22)
4.All men are implicated in Adam’s sin, as St. Paul affirms: “By one man’s disobedience many (that is, all men) were made sinners”: “sin came into the world through one man…. (CCC # 402)
5.Following St. Paul, the Church has always taught that the overwhelming misery which oppresses men and their inclination towards evil and death cannot be understood apart from their connection with Adam’s sin….(CCC # 403)
6.How did the sin of Adam become the sin of all his descendants? The whole human race is in Adam “as one body of one man”.293 By this “unity of the human race” all men are implicated in Adam’s sin, as all are implicated in Christ’s justice. (CCC # 404)
when God was looking for them in the Garden after they had sinned he did not say “Adam and Eve where are you?” He said, Adam, where are you? (Gen 3:9) It is Adam who must render an account.