Why Eve?

Why did Satan temp Eve instead of Adam?

Satan will look for weakness to exploit to bring about failure.

It could be that Eve was questioning why they could not eat of the tree, and Satan took advantage of that. Adam simply chose to leave it alone—because God said so.

It could be that God allowed Eve but not Adam to be tempted, because if Eve made the fatal choice, Adam could have taken responsibility and reversed it. I know that sounds bizarre, but there is the authority that the Husband and father have over the wife and daughter. We read about that in Numbers chapter 30, in which, if a daughter makes a vow and the father hears it, he can choose to negate it, but if he hears it and says nothing, then the vow stands. The same with a wife and her husband. Adam could have refused to eat the fruit, and maybe God would have reversed the consequence.

I read in Genesis that it wasn't until Adam ate of the fruit that their eyes were opened. We are told in Scripture that the head of woman is man, and so it may have been that the consequence of disobeying God did not result until Adam ate of the fruit. We are told that sin entered through Adam. When their eyes were opened, there was an awareness that they did not have before. Something changed within their consciousness that I believe amounts to a new inclination of inordinate desire and they saw things differently than before.

It could be that Satan just chose Eve first because he saw opportunity, and she was more vulnerable. But the idea that Adam could have negated it is an interesting possibility. We just don't have enough revelation to explain all that was going on.

“...if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father's house in her youth, ⁴ and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself shall stand. ⁵ But if her father overrules her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the LORD will release her, because her father overruled her. ⁶ "If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself, ⁷ and her husband hears it, and makes no response to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself shall stand. ⁸ But if her husband overrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the LORD will release her.” Numbers 30:3-8

^“3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Corinthians 11:3

^“6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. ⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.” Genesis 3:6-7

^“12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—“ Romans 5:12