"Where the Blame Points" - Genesis 3:6-13 - Nathan Edwards

What is the good news in our fear of blame?

Questions for Personal Reflection:

1. Do you have a memory of trying to get out of blame as a kid? How did it go?

2. Why do you think Adam received the most blame even though he was not the one who ate first?

3. Compare God’s command in Gen 2:16-17 and Eve’s recollection of it in 3:1-2. How do the differences change the command? What lesson does this teach regarding knowing God’s Word?

4. Why do you think we prefer to think of sin as mistakes or temptations that come upon us, rather than choices from the heart? Where does Mark 7:20-23 say our sin comes from?

5. Read Romans 8:7, how does sin make us hostile toward God?

6. Why couldn’t God have just overlooked Adam and Eve’s sin in the garden? What would happen to justice if God did not judge?

7. How does God’s gift of justification through Jesus Christ give us relief from the blame that falls to us?