No, not what happened. You've just proved why I quoted from Paul, I 'thought' you might be able to see what I was saying by finding some words from Paul. I was not, nor need to support my view, I was just hoping, irrationally apparently, to get some understanding from some.
I take it you are referring to:
ROMANS: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—
This begs these questions:
1. What was that sin?
2. How did it enter?
3. Were there any outside forces that caused it to happen?
4. Was this outside force condemned?
5. Were they punished?
This is all answered in Genesis 3
1. -- The sin was not keeping YHVH's law given to him (Adam)
2.--- Through the subtly clever serpent that twisted the LORDS words.
3--Yes, we learn of this other being in the garden with Adam and Eve - called here the serpent who tempted Eve and Adam who was there with her.
4. --- Yes, after YHVH came on the scene the serpent was the one who received the sentence of condemnation
FIRST.
5. --- Yes, all THREE of them with the serpent leading the questioning along with receiving the sentence first.
9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
He was hiding because now he knew what good and evil was.
10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
The LORD calls to Adam first as he was the one the LORD gave the commandment to. He is the one accountable for keeping it or not.
11 And He said,
“Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
Notice the LORD gives him a chance for repentance but instead.....
12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
Adam chooses to play the blame game and blames the woman and does not repent.
13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What
is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
The woman also chooses to play the blame game and blames the serpent, but does not repent.
Notice that the LORD does not question the serpent and allow him to repent.
But it is the Serpent that HE addresses first with the sentence and punishment.
14 So the Lord God said to the #1 Serpent:
“Because you have done this,You
are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,And you shall bruise His heel.”
16 To the #2 woman He said:
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;In pain you shall bring forth children;
Your desire
shall be for your husband,And he shall rule over you.”
17 Then to #3 Adam He said,
“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which
I commanded
you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
“Cursed
is the ground for your sake;In toil you shall eat
of it All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,And you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken; For dust you
are, And to dust you shall return.”
Notice the order here,
1. Serpent
2. Woman
3. Adam- man
The sin was not created out of thin air, there was a catalyst and that was the serpent. That is why his penalty was also death, annihilation.
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
#5 Were they punished?, yes, see above. But also notice this:
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.'
You cannot make atonement for yourself, let alone with plants that is why in this next verse we see the first sacrifice being made by the LORD himself.
21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
Atonement is a covering, it doesn't take it away but it hides it from GODs sight.