GM,
 
I reread the post I sent you and realized that I wasn't thorough in one part of it which concerns Adam and Eve.  Adam may have been in the garden before Eve, but he was not given the charge to have dominion....until Eve was at his side.  Therefore the charge to have dominion over the earth came to "dual rulers", a husband and wife relationship.  I guess this is part of the reason Satan has made one of his focuses, the assault of the family.  Knowing the power that could come from a Godly partnership in a husband and wife relationship, he has been on the prowl since the Garden of Eden.   There he attacked Eve and tried to separate Adam from his wife through the eating of the fruit of the tree.  Really, Adam had no choice but to eat of the tree after that.  He was in trouble no matter if he ate it or not.  The unit was separated and God had told him to cleave to his wife, but he found her in a state in which he could not cleave.  So Adam chose to become a unit with her again and since she couldn't come to him, he went to her.  His relationship with God was so tight that he trusted God would find a way for them to come back to Him.  This is also a picture of Christ in his efforts to find his bride.  Christ finds her with sin and so he offers up himself and takes her sin on himself, trusting that God will make the way possible for him to once again come back into fellowship with Him.  There are such beautiful picture in God's word aren't there?