Pastor Tim Ross Says Eve Never Sinned In Eden, Was Kicked Out For THIS Weird, Unbiblical Reason

Staff Writer

Tim Ross is a church-growth guru, podcast host, and pastor of Transformation Church who frequently says bizarre and troubling things, and his recent take on what really happened in the Garden of Eden is no exception.

We last wrote about Ross after he said it shouldn’t be considered cheating for a married man to dance sexually, get twerked on, and slap the butt of a half-naked dancer. Then we featured him praising famed Modalist T.D. Jakes, while saying a belief in the Trinity is a secondary, non-essential issue and that it’s crazy for Christians to divide over Trinitarian doctrine.

He also compared Jesus to a naked stripper that ‘puts bread in my pocket,’ mocked people upset about his lousy preaching, said he’s never once felt convicted about cursing and cussing, praised and extolled a guest on his show for regurgitating all the worst cliches of Critical Race Theology and anti-racism talking points, and refused to name names over a corrupt Bishop who was bribing pastors with sex.

During a recent episode Upset The World Studios, in an interview with Erwin McManus, Ross offers this novel understanding of the departure of Eve from the Garden of Eden:

Ross: The theologians in the room may disagree. I don’t believe that Adam and Eve got kicked out of the garden for what they did. I believe they got kicked out for what they hid.

I don’t think doing it (eating the fruit) was the issue. I think hiding it was. It’s the doubling down on what- hiding is the doubling down of what you did.

McManus: You know, I don’t know how this connects, but I think I was reading Genesis yesterday…and I was noticing that when God said, “do not eat from the fruit of this tree,” He was only saying it to Adam. Because Eve hadn’t been created yet.

Ross: Correct. She was in him.

McManus: “Yeah, and so I thought this is interesting because (Adam) didn’t transfer the value that God entrusted him with. And I was reading this going “wow, we always think it was Eve, but really Adam didn’t do his job.”

Ross responds to this saying that he wants to “co-sign” that statement, then adds:

Ross: Let’s double down. This is why sin is not ascribed to Eve. Scripture says Eve was deceived- Adam sinned.

Because what should have happened when Eve was deceived and brought the fruit to Adam is he should have slapped it out of her hand. And said, ‘girl, what is you doing? You about to mess all this up.’

So, because Adam at that point would have known the penalty of death, he should have called out to the Father and said, ‘I know what the penalty of my wife’s disobedience is, but I don’t want it to happen to her. Do it to me instead.’

…Christ was called the second Adam because Christ did what Adam should have. Adam should have died for his wife. Instead he chose to die with his wife.”