DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Disagree. John Barton, a historian of the Bible, writes that no book of the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament) reads Genesis 3 as the story of how sin came into the world. The Old Testament scholars Michael Coogan and Cynthia Chapman say the Hebrew Bible rarely refers to the garden story at all. The one example they give is Ezekiel 28, a speech against a king who once lived in Eden.
Why it’s interesting
This way of reading the story came later, through a book outside the Hebrew Bible. The Wisdom of Solomon, a Jewish book written in Greek, says "death entered the world" through an adversary's envy (Wisdom of Solomon 2:24). Barton says Paul's argument in Romans 5, that sin came into the world through one man, seems to rest on it.
Scholarly consensus
Learn the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.