That was very clear and I agree with you.  I could read everything that you wrote that Adam did not do and see my own failure and treachery as “keeper of the home” and “help meet” to my husband (although, unlike Adam, I think I was deceived by all the teaching about women keeping quiet and my MISunderstanding of submission).

The Greek word translated “homemaker” (NKJV) or “housekeeper” is oikouros. This is a compound word from oikos- house, household, family; and ouros- a guard, be “ware”, guardian, a watcher, a warden. So, the word ” oikouros” translated “keepers at home”  carries the meaning of watchman a similar meaning to the Hebrew shamar used of Adam’s “keeper” assignment. 

I think “KEEPER of the home” has nothing to do with domestic servitude.  Making it about domestic servitude really robs women, children, husbands, and the body of Christ and is a form of deception and treachery from what source?  From the same source as the deception in the garden: none other than “the father of lies”.

That was very thought-provoking!

Cheryl has enough on her plate not to “go there”, but perhaps for some, not accusing Adam on this issue might justify more than their position regarding gender.

I wanted to make it perfectly clear for everyone else reading this post and the comments that Adam was without excuse.

As far as judging the sins of omission, we cannot set ourselves up as judge and jury of others.  God is the ultimate judge.  We are to judge ourselves and test ourselves so that we can stand before God without shame.  My post was not mean to be an indictment of anyone else but Adam.  At the same time I set myself up as a judge of my own inadequacies.  Where is it that I should have spoken up when I was silent?  What happened to Adam is a strong warning for me to be faithful.  God doesn’t just look on my sins of commission but he sees what I know and understand but have failed to share with others.

1. We have God’s charge of sin in Adam listening to the voice of his wife.

2. We have God’s charge of treason (treacherous) in Hosea 6:7

3. We have Paul’s confirmation that Adam was not deceived in 1 Timothy 2:14

4. We have the scripture telling us specifically that Adam was with Eve (Genesis 3:6)

Putting it all together we have a very sad state of affairs.  We have a man charged with guarding the garden but who is silent when his wife is being taken captive by the enemy.  He was not deceived by the lies of the enemy but he knew and understood the truth the entire time that his wife was being taken captive by the lie.  Adam cannot say that he was guarding the back door when the enemy came in the front door.  Adam was right there at the front door.  He failed to guard the door and he failed to sound the warning.  If he had spoken up and warned Eve of the danger, I have no doubt that things would have been different.  Yet God is still sovereign and God made provision for this deception and the sin that came into the world through Adam’s failure as a watchman and Adam’s deliberate choice to eat the fruit. 

I am constantly in amazement at how our Christian culture allows us to make excuses for Adam and yet we are willing to charge Eve with sin without any evidence that she added to God’s word.  We need to lay the blame solely at the feet of Adam because that is the only one that God charged with treason.  God’s wisdom in this matter is the key since God knew Adam’s heart and all of his actions.  God gave Adam no wiggle room out of the charge of sin.  Because of this, Adam’s sin stands without excuse.