Why Did Adam And Eve Choose To Sin The Serpent

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In the C. S. Lewis account of why Adam and Eve choose to sin the serpent first appear to Eve in the dream in form of a toad but failed. Then came to the garden of Eden and rest on the tree of life. Satan convinces Eve that the reason why God does not want them to eat from the tree of good and evil is because he is trying to keep humans down.
Satan told Eve that humans are part of Godhead. Therefore, she thinks she is part of Godhead when she is eating the fruit of good and evil and she feels that heaven is far so God cannot see what she is doing. When she realizes are actions she starts plotting how to implicate Adam. She decides not to tell Adam at first, but just make him eat the fruit, thinking that it will make her equal to Adam. Then she thinks if she is to die they will both die and Adam will not have the opportunity to marry another wife …show more content…

Satan asks the woman if they are not allowed to eat the fruit of all the tree of good and evil. Eve explains to him that they were only forbidden to eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil and if they do they will die. Satan convinced her that God does not want them to be like him by knowing good and evil.
The bible states that the woman sees that the fruits are good for the eye and the tree can make one wise then she eats the fruits and gave her husband some. After they eat the fruits, the bible states that their eyes were open and they notice for the first time that they were naked. Then they sew fig leaves together and make themselves apron.
Adam and Eve choose to sin because they want to be like God in the bible. However, in paradise lost Milton felt Eve choose to sin because she wants to be equal with Adam and when she realizes the what she has done she decides to give Adam the fruit because if she must die they should both die and he will of have the opportunity of having another

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