ContradictionsReading order 438Bible context 1 min read
Who was to blame for original sin?
The passages emphasize different participants in the first transgression, without making deception and responsibility the same thing.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Adam's lack of deception does not absolve him of wrongdoing, so the woman's deception and Adam's role in introducing sin can both hold.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Timothy singles out the woman's deception and transgression
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
1 Timothy 2:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:1 Timothy 2
Romans traces the entrance of sin and death to one man
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 5:12
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Romans 5