his bride. Yet, he failed by allowing the serpent to enter their home and begin his fearsome dialogue of temptation. Adam’s sin was pride; he disobeyed God and placed his own safety before his bride’s. He failed to lay down his life to save hers. His was a failure of love, and so he proved incapable of living the divine life that God had intended to share with humanity. Moreover, Adam left his human family a legacy of dysfunction that cascaded down the generations—and the sign of this dysfunction,