Yesterday I only read Gen 3:1 (actually, only the first sentence). I noticed for the first time that the Bible seems to distinguish between the serpent and the animals which God made. Things that make you go “hmmm.”
Today I read the rest of Gen 3. It reminded me of a woman who once told me that she had rejected Christianity in exchange for some form of paganism worshipping a goddess. The reason she gave was that Christianity was oppressive to women, and she cited the “blame” that Christianity attributes to Eve in Gen 3 as proof.
I thought it was ironic that a serpent had crawled into her life and cunningly convinced her that God had mislead her and did not have her best interest in mind, and she would be better served by following a different path rather than obeying God; in her pride…she believed.
Sound familiar?
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Starting the Fall
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i never understand the whole blame thing. when i read genesis, i don't feel it's eve's fault, i don't feel the entiretly of christendom is blaming the woman for the downfall of man. i believe if adam had been alone he would have sinned even then. i honestly believe that women who use the treatment of eve as an exucse to abandon the reason and rationale in the bible are grasping at straws in their search to avoid accountability.
I have always been amazed that while the serpent used cunning on Eve and tricked her, Eve merely gave the fruit to Adam and he took it and ate it. To absolve Adam of his responsibility in all this would be unconscionable. Hence, God also punished Adam.
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