Heard on timcast the actual numbers are ~8-12%.
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You are thinking with a mindset already given the sin of knowledge, which allows us that much choice and nuance and morality.
He had none of that, because he hadn't eaten the fruit yet. All he saw was the thing he loved most, and he followed her to hell out of love for her.
Probably so. I was just stating there was no sin in abandoning Eve.
No, but to abandon her he would have to already be sinful. The very notion of going against her, his love, and that unblemished existence would require sin to already be part of his mind.
Choice and conditional love are parts of a flawed human mind he didn't have until the knowledge granted him that freedom.
I'll have to disagree with that. All Adam needed to know is that disobedience = you shall surely die = bad. Indeed, he did know this.
If you posit that Adam and Eve did not have the power of choice until after the apple was eaten then the whole thing becomes a deterministic story and therefore meaningless.
They had choice within the world they existed in. The fruit was of knowledge of good and evil, knowledge that allows one to make decisions such as "lesser of evils" and "for the greater good." Morally good choices, that are still stained with sin regardless.
Such as betraying your wife because she fucked up. Morally good, but its still betraying one you are meant to love and protect. It doesn't seem complex to us because we already have that knowledge, but to a being without that knowledge it wouldn't even enter his mind.
He did know it, but he also loved his wife. He knew nothing of mistrust (suspicion requires knowing evil exists), so he simply ate what she offered to him. Its not even said if she told him it was the fruit beforehand, but that's extra headcanon territory.