How did Adam and Eve sin?

Answer by  Alexpheffer (47)

Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying an order from God not to eat from the tree of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. First Eve was tempted to eat the fruit and then Adam followed. It was not the act of eating a fruit from the tree that was sinful but the disobedience of Gods command.

Answer by  OU (135)

Genesis tells how Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that God had forbidden. This willful defiance of God was their sin.

Answer by  Jaw (23)

According to the book of Genesis, Adam and Eve sinned by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil after God forbade them from doing so.

Answer by  Zoe (2369)

God told Adam not to eat the fruit off the Tree of Knowledge. Eve allowed a snake to seduce her into eating the fruit, and she seduced Adam into doing so as well. Scholars debate as to whether this story is meant to be taken literally or metaphorically.