Who's To Blame?

Genesis 3:8-14
Everybody that’s on this earth is a descendant of Adam and Eve. As a result of sin every human being and every race began to die.

Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and after they realized they had disobeyed God their eyes became open. They realized they were naked and they went and hid themselves.  Here God is calling to Adam. He asked 4 questions in this whole conversation.

He first asked Adam “Where art thou?” But Adam and Eve had hid themselves. “I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”  Now Adam was more concerned about being naked than he was about the thing that God had commanded him not to do. God asked Adam why he was afraid, and then question number 3 “Did you eat of the tree?” God is not really looking for information - but He certainly had some questions for Adam. 

Now we’re  going to see the blame game. We will see people point fingers. Adam says: God, it was that woman that you gave me!  Adam is beginning to point fingers. Not only is he pointing fingers at the woman - if we read it carefully we see that he is blaming God too.  Adam is pointing fingers at God - It’s that woman that you gave me.  She gave me of the tree and I did eat.  God turned around and asked Eve this question: “…what is this that you have done?”  Adam blamed God, then he turned around and blamed the woman. And now here is the woman pointing fingers at the serpent – “the serpent beguiled me…”

Who’s to blame?
Let’s look at verse 14. God tells us who’s to blame.

God didn’t ask the serpent a question, He made a statement to the serpent. “Because thou hast done this…’” God says because you deceived this man’s wife and she gave unto her husband you will be cursed among every beast of the field.  So we see here who’s to blame.

God asked 4 questions; He did not get in a conversation – He just asked questions. A lot of times He asks us questions. He speaks to us, and we like to make excuses too.  God asks Adam: Where art thou? Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat of the tree? And He asked Eve: What is this that you have done?

What Adam and Eve should have done was to fall on their faces before God:  God I messed up! God I repent -  I ask you Almighty God to forgive me.  Just like us - sometimes we mess up! Instead of us pointing fingers, instead of us blaming someone else, we need to go on our knees.

The bible teaches us that all have sinned, and it is due to our sinful nature.  Every man, even a baby - the bible says we are born into sin and shaped in iniquity. Even the little bitty baby - he’s so cute, she’s so darling, but yet and still they have that sinful nature. They can’t help it.

Everyone that has been born has a sinful nature. But as for Jesus, he was different.  Man did not get His mother pregnant so Jesus did not have that sinful nature. Every man that was born on this earth was born with that sinful nature except Jesus Christ.

Who’s to blame? In the 14th verse God tells this serpent …”because you have done this.” That’s who to blame, the enemy is to blame; not Adam not God not Eve but the enemy deserves the blame.  So we’re off the hook, right?  No.

We can blame the enemy of our souls that we are tempted, but we will suffer the consequences for our choices.  Adam and Eve had options.  They could have ignored the serpent. They could have told him to get lost.  They could have talked to God about it.

We all find ourselves in Adam and Eve’s position at some point in life, in their fig aprons, so to speak. And like them, we cannot escape God’s examination. We must humble ourselves before God, and ask for His forgiveness.  The bible teaches us that as we accept God’s Son Jesus Christ as our Savior, Almighty God will cause us to be blameless.
7 Now you have every spiritual gift you need as you eagerly wait for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8 He will keep you strong to the end so that you will be free from all blame on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns. 9 God will do this, for he is faithful to do what he says, and he has invited you into partnership with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:7-9 New Living Translation (NLT)
~J.T.