Who sinned first?

I think Genesis chapter 3 is one of the most controversial passages in the bible. It should be easy, right? Adam and Eve ate the fruit, causing man to have a sin nature and this is why things are the way they are today. But it all comes down to one argument: just who's fault is it anyway? 

Some say,"It's Eve's fault! She led Adam into deception and is the reason why we're stuck with our sin nature!" Others say,"It was Adam's fault cause God told him first and he didn't stop Eve but ate the fruit with her." 

Well, I think that the fall of man is a little bit more complex than a simple case of  "who done it". 

First off, we have to figure out what's going on inside the mind of Eve before we start accusing anyone. 

It's a well known fact that Eve was created after Adam. In Genesis chapter 2, verse 15-18, it says 

¹⁵ The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

¹⁸ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

So God tells Adam first about the tree, and it clearly states that after he told Adam this, he sets out to make a helper for him (Eve). So Eve isn't there when God tells Adam about the tree. So technically, Adam knew about the tree first. 

Where am I going with this, you may be asking yourself. I promise, I'm getting there.

So in Genesis chapter 3, verses 2-3, it says

² The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ³ but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

Wait a minute, she adds something onto it. God didn't say if you touched the fruit you would die. Personally, I think Adam told Eve what God said about the tree and that the message got misconstrued in the second telling. 

In the coming verses, Eve doubts God and then determines that she needs to take matters into her own hands because God's holding out on her. Where's Adam in all this you ask? Here it is in verse 6

⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

So he's right beside her. Didn't God tell him first about the tree? Shouldn't he have known better and said, "Honey, God told us not to do that. Let's get this snake to take a hike."
Nope, he ate the fruit. So Adam gives up his authority and passively accepts the lie.

Essentially, I think it's both their faults. It says that they took walks with God in the garden, so they must have known him, right? They must have known that he's a loving God who provided everything they needed to flourish. But then curiosity came into play. Since Adam was the spiritual leader and God told him about the tree first, I think the blame lies with him. That's the way it is with all leadership. The blame always falls on the leader's shoulders.

As well as that, it says in Romans 5:15,17

¹⁵ But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
¹⁷ For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

So although Adam and Eve are both partially responsible for the fall of man, the scripture states that sin and death came through the trespass of one man. And obviously, Eve is not a man. So the blame ultimately falls with Adam. 

Here, I rest my case. 

(P.S. commented on Emerson Larios' Imitators of Odysseus)