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Replying to JehovahsWitness in post #6]
I invite you to further discuss the implications and consequences of Adam's choices within the framework of the original version presented in the opening post.
There are no "original version" of Scripture, so your invitation is impossible; there are various translations and interpretations thereof.
Yes - I can see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way. What I was attempting to say was that the focus if the OP is on the version in the OP.
In that regard, it is possible for any to respond to the invitation.
The OP seems to be quoting GENESIS 3:6 in the KING JAMES VERSION but there is little significant difference between the translations. To speak of the KJV especially the recent modern English translation , as "the original version" is a gross misnomer as the bible was originally written in Hebrew Aramaic and Greek and certainly not English.
I agree that the version in the OP is pretty much the same as in the KJV, and certainly not different enough to warrant any argument.
As I have now explained, I am not arguing that any version of any bible is "original" - that was simply a poor choice of wording even that the context of my post you cherry-picked those words from, clearly shows that I was altogether saying that the focus of the OP and the questions related to that, are particular to that version of that part of the story, as given in the OP.
The various translations of Genesis 3v6 (including the quoted KJV) all allow for the reading that Adam was NOT present during Eve's initial interaction with Adam and that he was not consulted before she ate of the forbidden fruit.
That is irrelevant to the thread topic, and most of the questions asked in the OP.
If you want to argue for another version of the story, you are best to start your own thread rather than disrupt this one.
If you do decide to create another thread, I would be happy to see what and why it is that you have feel you have to lean into a different version of that part of the story.
Adam's decision to partake in the fruit alongside Eve suggests that he made a choice, albeit perhaps a complex one influenced by various factors.
I don't think it was complex at all. Eve offered her husband the fruit, he chose to take it. He sided with her against the prior warning of his Father and Creator not to eat of the fruit. It was a bad choice not a "complex" one.
The complexity is in trying to find out why he made the choice that he made, after witnessing what he did, and that is why the questions in the OP are being asked.
If you simply dropped by to complain about which version of that part of the story you think everyone should be following, then you have my answer.
The OP clearly invites folk to interact with and give reasons why they think the questions are or are not relevant, answerable or anything else including asking their own questions/providing alternatives to what Adam could have done re "making the right choice".
If you don't have any of those things to add to the discussion, please don't interfere any more.
Thanks.
