Adam and Eve

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned (Romans 5:12).

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive (1 Corinthians 15:22).

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ (2 Corinthians 11:3).

The man without a navel still lives in me.
~ Sir Thomas Browne

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God; he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
~ Oswald Chambers

The way the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety was by enticing her away from personal faith in God to depend on her reasons alone.
~ Oswald Chambers

Adam switched off from God’s design. Instead of maintaining his dependence on God, he took his rule over himself and thereby introduced sin into the world.
~ Oswald Chambers

The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, not out of his feet to be trampled on by him; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.
~ Matthew Henry

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eve, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother—mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.
~ Martin Luther

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
~ Mark Twain

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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