Wrong is decieving someone when you trust, wrong is not following the righteous path. So the question is did Eve made a wrong choice? Is it fair to blame her? The answer matters because she couldn't resist the temptation of the serpent as a result, God punishing her and rest of her childerns.
Eve stepped into the evil world the moment she ate the apple, and believed the pesuading Serpent. "When the woman saw that tree was good...he ate". This was the evidence that she made a bad choice. She knew the consequences what will happen to her after eating the apple, yet she decided to eat it. To add more of her mistake, she handed Adam the apple too. She didn't have any flaw, until she believed the ability to make an independent decision. Unfortunately, the decision she took was wrong and brought the sin into this world.
Eve was in state of confusion and ignorance. "Two of them were naked...felt no shame." -If this was true, then they shouldn't have any kind of sense of what is wrong and right. Every individual based on his teachings and understanding has the capability to know what is right or wrong. It depends on what a person aspires in life. Therefore, she wasn't enforce to learn what wrong is. If God really made Adam and Eve according with his image, he might as well could have given them his knowledge and wisdom into their brains.
In my opinion, Eve made a wrong choice for not obeying God because He gave the freedom to make decisions Even though she was not God, she had the ability to think and make decisions. She had emotions and a will. She wasn't a puppet. Your parents gave you freedom to make certain decisions. Did you ever disappoint them? Did you ever make a bad decision and did you suffer in some way for your bad decision? Does the fact that you made a bad decision and suffered for it reflect on your parents? If so, should they have denied you freedoms or assumed more control over your life? Then how would you feel about your parents? Most likely you would complain about that. Most of us would. Life doesn't come with instructions atleast she somehow got some.
Clear, thought out response. Well done.
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