How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

Before God, Adam and Eve are both guilty, and both end up suffering the consequences of their actions. Romans 5:12 says that Adam is responsible since he was created first, and Paul is writing here to the Roman church to indicate that Adam is the representative head of the human race.