'I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing Genesis 3:14-19 14 The Lord God said to the serpent,ġ5 I will put enmity between you and the woman,Īnd between your offspring and her offspring Eve is not told she would return to dust, but it seems she is indirectly affected by consequences directly blamed by God on Adam. To her, consequences are simply meted out without identifying her actions as the cause of it.Īlso, only Adam is told he will return to the dust (die).
God declares, 'because you have' done XYZ before naming the consequences of Adam and the serpent's actions, but not for Eve. The idea that human death originates exclusively from the sin of Adam may actually come from the original narrative. Everyone else, which would literally include Eve.ġ2 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned In Romans 5:12, death is blamed as originating exclusively from Adam, and it is Adam from whom death has spread to everyone else. Was Eve's death a consequence of the sin of Adam and not a direct result of her own sin?
