Can people really blame Eve for this world being the way it is?

Question

Knowing that Eve was a woman and was tricked by Satan into eating the apple and gave it to Adam. Can we really blame Eve, or women in general, for all the problems that's going on in the world today? I suppose so...

If Eve hadn't eaten the apple, how do you think this dispicable world would have turned out?

Answer 1

I always blame everything on global warming these days.  

Free tip:  its better 'cuz people don't look at ya funny.

Answer 2

People bang on about how bad things have got when really 9 out of 10 people are still decent its just the media doesnt tell us about it!

Answer 3

well i guess blaming a mythical character for all the world's problems sure absolves you from any sense of responsibility

personally i prefer to look at the world as it is, not through fairy book lenses

Answer 4

What's more interesting is that Lilith isn't played upon in the bible.  Eve, the second wife, the submissive one, is the one who (according to the story) was tricked by Satan.  However, Lilith was the one to stand up to Adam, God's angels, and then God himself and even won herself immortality for the actions (granted as a demon like creature, though she was queen of her created demon-like children).  But of course this story of a struggle for gender equality is not picked up by Christianity.  

But as far as how this world would be different--- it would be exactly the same even IF you buy into the story.  Adam would've eaten it eventually if Eve did not.  It is in human nature to do what we're told not to.  Eve just beat him to it.

OWAINS-- You have to look at historical texts the way I do to understand my mindset.  Lilith is as real as Eve in the minds of those in their culture.... that doesn't mean either ACTUALLY existed.  Lilith (as Adam's wife) may only have been documented once (and granted later on), but there are theories that her myth was carried by oral tradition and she does make appearances in other myths.  She may date as far back as the Sumerians (which is pretty far considering the Epic of Gilgamesh is written long before the Old Testament).

When I speak of Lilith, it is in the same manner that I speak of Eve-- as important mythical characters to their time and culture.  I do not argue for or against their actual existence.

Answer 5

Eve is a mythical character.

Except to some delusional-oids on GWS.

Answer 6

Fereshte, Lilith is only referred to one or two times in the Hebrew Talmud, and the Christian Old Testament: in Isaiah 34:14, and never as Adam's wife. Little is known about her, beyond her babylonian origins (which agrees with the time that Isaiah was written, c 600 BC)and attributions that she was the first wife of Adam are purely apocryphal, and probably no better than fiction, based as it was on the Alphabet of ben Sira.

There is a lot of New allusion to Lilith, as there is to mary Magdelene, but the connections are more modren, and more in the nature of wishful thinking.

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Eve totally to blame for all sin? I rather doubt it, in the modern context she was a co-participant even if she was the one directlt tempted.. She certainly was not opressed, and the proper description of the Fall, in the original tongues has them both there at the time of temptation. A proper read of genesis confirms this, albeit with some linguistic confusion.

Oh, and the idea of the Fruit being an apple is a tradition, originally Catholic but still generally accepted.  If yoy assume this event happened (I do, but that is my beliefs), the fruit was quite likely to be something else.

Answer 7

lol no but I can blame the catholic church...eve is just a character.

reminds me of a joke.

ya Eve took a bite of the apple...but the Adam eat the whole durn thing!

Answer 8

why did adam leave her alone long enough to let her eat the apple and why did he eat it , when he knew she was wrong?

there is nooo lillith. never was. stupidest thing ive ever heard. and the world would be great if they had just obeyed god and by the way , im not catholic.

Answer 9

mmm no. the world was only recently ruined (by timeline standards) so im pretty sure it was man kind as a whole or at least those in charge (who are mostly men) oh ya and shes not real.

Answer 10

It wasn't an apple, it was fruit from the forbiden tree...also Adam ate the fruit.  God told him not to, but he took it upon himself to eat it.  So if anyone is to blame for the world today, both of them are.

Answer 11

I think the Bible has a lot to answer for. It's a load of seist rubbish. Adam didn't get punished for it, even though he also took the apple and god said 'For this you every woman will receive the agony of childbirth'. Yeah really nice and loving god...