[MENTION=90700]Edward[/MENTION],
Not trying to prove you wrong, just talkin about stuff just like you are.
If we look back in the story, before the fall, everything was in perfect unity. Adam was in perfect union with God and Adam was in perfect union with Eve. God walked among Adam and Eve freely and Adam refereed to Eve as "Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh". When we look at why Eve was created, it was because God saw that Adam was lonely aka didn't have a suitable helper, and it's the first place God says that something in His creation isn't good.
Earlier (Prior to Eve) God told Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge lest he die. Adam passed this command to Eve and as such, A husband is supposed to lead, guide and protect his wife. Adam's responsibility toward Eve was to keep her from danger. But more so in this situation, he was to protect her from death because death means separation.
When talking about love, Paul writes to the church in Corinth about love in chapter 13 and in that chapter he says that love always protects. In regard to Eve, we know that she was beguiled or simply put, she was tricked. On the other hand, Adam willfully disobeyed. It is at this point it's good to understand the Torah and the sacrificial law because it helps us to understand that God sees sin and responds to sins differently. For example, God treats sin committed in ignorance differently than he does willful disobedience which always carries a harsher sentence. This is also why Paul says that sin entered into the world through the disobedience of one man.
If love protects, then Adam would have protected Eve by leading her her to repentance and he would have guided her toward God. Instead, he disobeyed God and by doing so, he finds difference with her. He no longer calls Eve "bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh" but instead he says to God, This is the woman YOU gave me. They no longer look at each other as one and as a result, they hide that which is different from each other. The bond is broken and the perfect unity shattered not only between Adam and Eve, but also with all of creation. Innocent animals were killed to hide their differences and where lush vegetation grew, thorns and thistles would grown. And no longer are the days that one toils and reaps his harvest, because one could work the ground and it would only produce thistles and thorns. By one act from one man, all of creation was fractured, which is why Paul writes in Romans 8 that the whole creation groans.
If you are saying that Adam disobeyed God because he loved Eve, then that's not a biblical love. Actually, its typically just a selfish ambition misconstrued as love.
God showed us what real love is through is Son Jesus. Jesus was obedient to the cross as he said, "Not my will, but your will be done".
So while I'm not out to "prove" you wrong, I am simply telling the story the way it's been told for thousands of years... and I think it agrees with what Paul writes in much of his letters.
