Blame it on Eve

Blame it on Eve July 5, 2020

Genesis 3:9 – 12

When I was in high school, a favourite slogan seen on lapel buttons, bumper stickers, etc., was, “The devil made me do it.” But there was another one, equally popular, that said, “If it feels good, do it.” So who really is responsible for the choices people make?

Genesis 3:9 – 12

Why do you sin, anyway? Is it really your fault that you sin? Could it be someone else’ fault, letting you off the hook? How about Eve? She is the first one in the world who sinned. If she hadn’t sinned, maybe you wouldn’t sin… right? So how about we… BLAME IT ON EVE!?

I. Whose Fault IS It?

  1. So, is it really your fault that you sin? Could it be that it really is Eve’s fault when you sin? If she had never sinned, would you sin now? She is the first one in the world who sinned. If she hadn’t sinned, maybe you wouldn’t sin… right? So why can’t we all just blame it on Eve!?
  2. Adam tried that.
    1. Man was not supposed to know good from evil. Man was created only to know good – God’s way. God told Adam how to live and supplied everything needed for a very wonderful life in the garden of Eden. “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Genesis 2:16,17
    2. God’s command to Adam was very simple and direct. He did not give him a choice between good and evil, but put him in a perfect setting with everything he needed for a wonderful and comfortable life. The only law was not to eat of one tree.
      1. Unlike us, Adam didn’t need to figure out if something was good or evil, the right thing to do, or not, God’s will or not. He had a wonderful and perfectly pleasant job given him by God in a perfect setting. Any questions he had were answered by God. Rather than relying on his own ability to come up with the right answers, even with his perfect, uncorrupted mind, he relied on God. God was his source for everything.
    3. Adam was unique. He was not created the way the animals were. God created both man and animals out of the ground, but Adam He formed or fashioned out of the dust of the ground, with great attention and loving care and He breathed into him the breath of life. Adam’s creation, unlike the animals, was a kind of “hands-on creation.” Adam was the pinnacle of creation – God’s whole reason for creating the heaven and earth and everything in it.
    4. Adam did not have a wife at first, but God took good care of that.
      1. God made Adam a perfect wife, fashioned by the hand of God from one of Adam’s ribs. “And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” Gen 2:23 – 25
      2. Adam and Eve were all alone on their honeymoon in the most fabulous location imaginable! They enjoyed a perfect relationship with one another and with God.
    5. Then the unthinkable happened. Along came the tempter who tricked Eve into eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, she offered some to Adam, who also ate, and the next thing you know, they were embarrassed by their nakedness and afraid of God
      1. We don’t know all the details, but from what we read in Genesis, it seems that God took on a physical form, since the Bible says in Genesis 3:7 that they heard the voice of God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid themselves from His presence.
        1. What was wrong? Suddenly, they began to see everything through the eyes of man, rather than God. They began to recognize that there was something wrong with them! That something was not that they were naked. Their instantly corrupt reasoning, corrupted by their sin the instant they sinned, mistakenly saw their problem as a physical problem, rather than a spiritual one. They were spiritually dead, disconnected from the goodness and clear thinking of God, the moment they sinned.
    6. When God called to Adam and began to question him, Adam, rather than answer God’s question honestly and honourably, blamed his sin on Eve.
      1. Note that God asked Adam where he was, and Adam if he had eaten of the tree he was commanded not to eat from. He didn’t ask Eve. Yet when Adam answered, rather than directly admitting that, yes, he had eaten the fruit, he blamed Eve for giving it to him.
      2. Do you have to eat everything someone gives you?
      3. Did Eve force him to eat it?
      4. Did Eve force Adam to sin?
      5. Did Eve force you to sin?
    7. In fact, God passed judgment on those involved in the order of their transgression
          1. First the serpent – he cursed the serpent above all creatures as representative of the devil and the curse he brought on mankind
          2. Then Eve – He pronounced a great judgment on Eve that has continued ever since. Childbearing became a difficult, painful and often dangerous experience, and wives were from that point on to be in subjection to the will of their husband, BUT with a built in desire for his position as head of the house. In fact, God proclaimed that the husband shall rule over the wife, making women slaves to fallen and unsaved husbands from that point on.
          3. But to Adam He gave the greatest responsibility for human sin and pronounced the curse on the ground that took away the joy and made Adam have to work extremely hard just to eat. (That curse was partially lifted after the flood). It is Adam that God declares responsible for all human sin, because he was supposed to be there for his wife, keeping himself clean for his wife, but instead, he wilfully and knowingly sinned when he accepted and ate that fruit his wife offered him that God had expressly forbidden him to eat. The Bible does not say, “As in Eve all die,” but “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15:22
  1. Blame it on Eve? No way! Sin is your own responsibility, just as it was Adam’s.
    1. So did Eve sin, then? Yes, she did. 1Timothy 2:14 says, “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” Transgression means, “sin.” Yes. Eve sinned. But she was tricked into it!
    2. See… “And Adam was not deceived…” Yet he sinned anyway, by doing what God said not to do. He willingly sinned.
    3. Blame it on Eve? No way! That’s what Adam did, and God really came down hard on him! Not only did He make his job extremely tedious and difficult, but He made him personally responsible, not just for himself, but for his wife and family.
  2. Your sin is your sin, and you can’t blame it on anyone else. You are personally responsible before God for your life.
    1. The Bible says, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans 3:23
    2. The Bible says,“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” Romans 6:23
    3. The Bible says, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12

You have a choice. Your sin is your responsibility. You cannot blame it on Eve or anyone else. Not only that, but the sin of the ones you love, your husband, your wife, your children, your friends, is all their responsibility, which is why you need to warn them and pray for them and share the gospel with them. Unless a person personally admits his or her sin and accepts the gift of God, that person is personally and eternally cursed and doomed to spend eternity separated from God in the Lake of Fire. Everyone must personally trust in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, for salvation, because there is salvation by no other but Jesus Christ! John 3:18 says, “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Blame it on Eve? No way! Your sin is your own responsibility and you need a Saviour, who is Jesus Christ the Lord!