1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Paul said he didn’t suffer a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority, because Adam was first formed, then Eve.
By the same reasoning, Jesus Christ, the second Adam, is the firstborn of God’s new creation. And as with Adam, the body of Jesus Christ of Nazareth was first formed, then the church in the resurrection.
Eve was deceived.
To understand how and why requires study.
Adam wasn’t deceived.
Yet, Adam sinned, for he did also eat.
Where there isn’t law, sin is not imputed.
But there was one law, the commandment...
Genesis 2:16-17
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
So, Adam’s and Eve’s sin is defined.
But, the cause of the sin is not so easily discerned in either case.
Adam sinned because he loved his own bone and flesh more than he loved God. And when he saw Eve was alienated from him by her sin, he joined her. Which also proved he loved himself more than he did Eve. For had he loved her as Jesus loves, he wouldn’t have joined her, but would’ve obeyed God, sought his counsel and have instead, laid down his life for her.