But Adam ... and this is what confuses me here ... Eve stuffs up, God is now angry ... so why the heck did Adam listen to Eve and also eat from the tree and make God even angrier?
It may be helpful to put some of the Catholic Church's teaching here on "occasions of sin". Basically the teaching states that if you put yourself in a geographical position where you've committed a sin before, or where you've been warned that bad things happen, then a sin is very likely to happen. Adam has gone back to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil where God has told him that if he eats the fruit of THAT tree, then he will die. So all he's got to do is avoid the part of the garden where the tree is, and death will be avoided. But because he's in a place where his judgement is clouded, then the suggestion is made, and he just goes along with it.
So this is why, when you confess the sin (to a priest in the Roman Catholic tradition) your promise is to avoid any occasions of sin, so that you won't commit the sin again. I can tell some of the atheists here will say, ok so what about if you commit sins where you live, or where you go to a place every day, how are you meant to avoid that place altogether? The point is to
pay attention if you can't avoid going to the place where it's happened, then you need to be on your guard. If you can avoid the place at all then it's best to do so.
There's no traits laid out for Adam in the story in Genesis (from where I'm standing, anyway) that suggest he was an Aspie. Not sure what was on the tree, either.
I hope this helps.
This is only my opinion. I didn't mean to steal Fiona's thunder; the boss can still write whatever she likes.
