So today in a Facebook thread, someone said something that was relatively inappropriate…so of course, I found it somewhat funny, even though I called them out on it being totally wrong. Then a friend of mine, Dana, called me out on thinking it was funny. So I sarcastically said, “Hey, blame Jason for my semi-twisted sense of humor, lol. It’s not my fault!”
So, in my favorite form of teaching (hilarious sarcasm), in reference to the Fall of Man in Genesis 3, Dana wrote:
And so Eve took the fruit, seeing it was pleasing to the eye and ate it….. And after Adam said it wasn’t his fault, Eve blamed the snake, and the snake, seeing no one else to blame looked at God and said, “it’s your fault dude. You wrote the book, leave us out of it.”
Genesis 3:9-13
9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”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?”
12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”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.”
Ok, so the serpent didn’t exactly converse with God in the text, but what we see is that Adam did. Don’t get me wrong, Dana’s quote was BRILLIANT, despite the fact that it didn’t go 100% with the text.
So Satan in the form of the serpent tempts Eve, and Eve totally caves (who wouldn’t?), and then Adam decided that since he was there with her, he’d set the precedent of just doing what the woman wants, and totally caves too. Then, God calls out to Adam asking “Where are you?” This question wasn’t literally God asking Adam where he was because God didn’t know, it was a call to account for Adam’s actions.
When Adam was confronted, he did blame Eve, but look at the context. He said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me”, so Adam blamed God for his own disobedience. Eve then turned and blamed the serpent. What was so brilliant about Dana’s version of this, is that she attributed this inability to admit our own faults and failures to the source it came from, Satan. Satan’s desire is for us to make much of ourselves, and to by all means, shift blame to someone else so that we don’t have to correct anything in our lives, thereby hindering our lives in Christ, and destroying our relationships with other people.
I especially loved the line, “You wrote the book, leave us out of it.” How many times do we echo this in our own lives?? We push God off when He calls us to repentance and lifestyle change, when He pushes us to become more like Him. Then when our lives get rough, we run back to Him and beg Him to fix it.
Thanks for the inspiration, Dana.
