The Blame Game

This was written about a year ago, but I'm just now posting.

I just love all the stuff I'm learning in my WDP. We're studying Genesis 3 right now, which talks about the Fall of Man. Convicting stuff, I tell ya. It's interesting what we've observed about this text that I missed the first 500 times I've read it. Life-changing.

One of the observations we made was how Adam and Eve both blamed somebody else for their sin when God questioned them. They didn't acknowledge their own actions, but immediately pointed to someone else. And they couldn't blame God because He was innocent.

[God] said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Then we applied it to our own lives and learned that God is not to be blamed for our sin, and in fact we should stop blaming altogether and take responsibility. We had to come face-to-face with ourselves and ask, "How have I blamed others for our sin?"

Whew! I almost got whiplash from that one.