The Bible doesn't talk about the fruit being given to Adam or Eve. It talks about Eve taking it, presumably from the tree.
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God told Adam and Eve that the day they would eat the forbidden fruit, they would surely die. And they did die that day, in spiritual perfection. We, their descendants, receive the same because we are corrupted as they became, both in body and in spirit.
The point is, they committed suicide. God didn't kill them. But God is offering us all the way out of death, into eternal life in joy. Too bad for you that you don't want it.
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God told Adam and Eve that the day they would eat the forbidden fruit, they would surely die. And they did die that day, in spiritual perfection. We, their descendants, receive the same because we are corrupted as they became, both in body and in spirit.
The point is, they committed suicide. God didn't kill them. But God is offering us all the way out of death, into eternal life in joy. Too bad for you that you don't want it.
I have an interesting theory I heard recently. It's that there may have been some sort of sexual immorality on Eve's part, not eating fruit, that was the sin. Which makes more sense since her punishment was sexual in nature (childbirth pains), instead of something to do with eating/hunger/knowledge.
Eve goofed by talking to the serpent. Adam goofed by not correcting Eve's goof before it became a sin.