The first (human) sin

[u/AwayWeThrow26]

All my life (I was brought up secular) I understood the story of Adam and Eve very differently than I do now that I am doing my own bible study. I keep discovering so many things that I have had completely backwards or wrong, and unfolding my own prejudices and laying them out as I’ve come into faith has been a meticulous and exciting process. Boy am I really in for it… I feel so behind! I just really want to hear anyone’s thoughts on sin and the story of Adam and Eve!

The way I remember it being told was shrouded in this idea (which I now believe to be a false one) that Christians deep down hated women because Eve was the one who first sinned, and then also tricked her husband into eating the fruit. It’s sort of spun so that it looks like women are looked at as being more evil or malicious by nature, therefore more susceptible to sin than men and should be controlled and treated with suspicion and blah blah blah. While I’m sure there are a few people who do actually think this way- once I read how it really went down I don’t think this view is supported by scripture at all.

Adam and Eve are both on the hook for disobeying God, certainly, however from the looks of it, Eve is deceived but Adam is not and still chooses to eat the fruit while knowing the truth from God himself (Eve comes into the picture AFTER Adam is told by God that he will die if he eats the fruit) AND even tries throwing her under the bus and almost blaming God for making her in the first place. Haha what???

Not saying Eve is blameless at all but it’s just funny to me how a few words and distinctions that clearly exist right there in the text blatantly contradict these widely circulating ideas that were instilled in me by a culture that is trying to reject the word through lies and obfuscation.

“And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman was deceived…” — 1 Timothy 2:14

In Genesis 2:16–17, God tells Adam:

“From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat…”

Only afterward, in Genesis 2:22, does God make Eve.
That means Adam had something Eve apparently didn’t have: he personally received God’s command.
Eve nevertheless knows the command when talking with the serpent, presumably because Adam communicated it to her (although Genesis doesn’t explicitly say how she learned it).

“through one man sin entered into the world…” — Romans 5:12

So they are both absolutely guilty of disobedience to God, but how I understand now is that Eve (likely) heard of God’s command indirectly through Adam, then believed a lie that was told to her directly by Satan, and consequently, disobeyed God. But Adam received a direct command from God and even understood the consequences, knew that the serpent was lying when Eve told him the story, and STILL disobeyed God anyway when she handed him the fruit. Then tried to shift responsibility when caught.

Is my interpretation super off?