Gen 3:11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Gen 3:12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
To blame is to think or say that someone or something did something wrong or is responsible for something bad happening. Blame game is a situation in which people try to blame each other for something bad that has happened. ( Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary)
In the above scenario, Adam refused to take full responsibility. First , he blamed God as the prime cause because he probably thought that if God had not given to him Eve , possibly he would not have eaten the fruit. Secondly, he blamed Eve for giving him the fruit. What was required was a simple admission of the wrong and find a way of ” righting ” the wrong.
Blame game is a popular game and a destructive game.
It never heals – it always hurts.
It never repairs relationships.
It only destroys relationships.
It never unites – it only divides
It never builds – it always tears apart.
It never solves a problem.
It only compounds the problem.
( Dr Harold L. White )
Further readings:
Gen 3:13
Joh 9:1-3
1Joh 1:9
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