Notice that Adam’s habits in this story is totally passive. Throughout the scene, he is silent. The Serpent and Eve have their dialogue, she decides to eat the fruit, she offers some to Adam, and he eats it too. The story doesn’t say that Eve tempted him, and nothing in the narration or in his silence suggests that she did. There is not any indication he’s reluctant to eat the fruit, that his better judgment is overwhelmed by treachery, and even that he thinks about it at all. He says nothing and takes no initiative. It’s merely a passive act …