When Adam and Eve ate the fruit, most people focus on two arguments.
Eve was deceived and fell into sin (Genesis 3:13).
Adam knew what he was doing and still chose to eat (1 Timothy 2:14).
But there is another way to look at it. What if Adam ate not out of ignorance, but out of love for Eve? What if he could not stand the thought of living without her, so he chose to join her in her fall?
It was a tragic kind of love, because it meant choosing her over God. His choice brought death to both (Romans 5:12).
Now look at Christ on the cross. He too entered into the weight of sin, not because He was deceived and not because He was weak, but because He loved us (Romans 5:8). He refused to abandon us to death. Yet His choice was different from Adam’s. Adam’s love pulled him down with Eve. Christ’s love lifted us up from sin and death (1 Corinthians 15:21–22).
The first Adam’s choice brought ruin. The second Adam’s choice brought redemption (Romans 5:18–19).
In Luminance 