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It is always best to go back to Bible, of course. But I think there may be more to it than what these gentlemen have mentioned. Paul clearly tells us Eve was deceived (1 Timothy 2:14).
And we find ourselves, hopefully, asking "Why was she deceived?"
One is most easily deceived by someone you have learned to trust.
Take a look at Ezekiel 28. In it, Ezekiel is being used as a mouthpiece by God, in prophecy to the King of Tyre. But in verse 11, someone else becomes involved. Whether the King of Tyre was demonically inhabited, I don't know, but the clear evidence here is that God, through Ezekiel, was addressing Satan himself, via the King of Tyre. Look at these verses, starting the verse 12b
You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you:
ruby, topaz, and emerald,
chrysolite, onyx and jasper,
sapphire, turquoise and beryl. [note that these identifications of precious and semi-precious stones are different in different translations].
Your settings and mountings were madeof gold;
on the day you were created they were prepared.
YOU WERE ANOINTED AS A GUARDIAN CHERUB,
FOR SO I ORDAINED YOU.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
You were blameless in your ways from teh day you were created till wickedness was found in you.
This is NOT the King of Tyre!
This was a being created perfect is wisdom and beauty, who was in Eden and was guardian cherub. If you keep reading in the passage, you cannot help but understand that this is Satan being spoken to.
I would suggest that Eve knew him and trusted him. He was the guardian cherub there, no matter what form he took. He was anointed guardian cherub before he fell into sin and rebelled against God in his pride and ambition.
So when he lured Eve into following him, as evidently a third of the angels had, Eve trusted him and obeyed his suggestion to think for herself over and above what she knew God's command was.
This is still, by the way, the only temptation the devil has ever had to use with any of us! He questions God's Word and then tells us to 'think for ourselves' in opposition to it. (I am not saying that thinking for ourselves is a bad thing; only when it is in clear opposition to God's word is it wrong per se!).
So Eve was deceived.
Then Paul tells us Adam was not deceived.
Again we would have to ask why.
He was the original human creation, at least by a few hours. God had given him Eve as someone like him. God had also spoken directly to Adam concerning the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil. Did God speak directly to Eve? We don't know. Perhaps Adam told her instead. Whatever happened, we know that Adam got his direction directly from God. And so we are told Adam was NOT deceived.
So why did Adam sin?
Did he love Eve so much that he could not bear to be without her?
Did he think he could somehow save Eve?
We just don't know the reason. We know he was not deceived.
The clear implication by Paul, then, in line with the rest of Scripture, is that God does not hold accountable the person who is deceived (even though the consequences are still there to be endured), in the same way He holds the deceiver accountable, or the one who sins intentionally.
I hope that helps a bit. Addresses directly to Satan by God in this area can be found both in that section of Ezekiel and in Isaiah 14:12-15 in particular. If you take a look at those two passages in those two books, by the way, you will find some very interesting parallels between Satan's "I will"'s in Isaiah and God's responses in Ezekiel.