When God calls us, our bias and self justification rings hollow and we are forced to move further down the path of sin. God asks, “Where are you?" And Adam responds in paranoid fear. God asks again, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” Does Adam come clean? Does he own up to his betrayal of God’s commandment? No, Adam blames God and objectifies Eve. “The woman you put here with me – she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Adam compounds his betrayal but he doesn’t see it. He wimps out again, blaming Eve. Eve blames the serpent. The curse comes. The partnership Eve and Adam was to share was fragmented and weakened. The fruitfulness that was to be the natural outcome of their relationship with God and with each other becomes a real pain and hard labor. They produce children and it is in their offspring where we see the rest of the pathway of sin unfold.
Stay tuned to see where the path of sin leads. It's not pretty.
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