Recently I started a new reading plan for my daily bible study and in Genesis today I found quite a hilarious interchange between God, Adam, and Eve. Here is the passage starting in Genesis 3 verses 8-12.
When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the mans and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.
Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
“Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”
The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
Ok, so this is clearly a passage that should not be strange because this interchange is one that happens all the time in our lives. This was in fact the first occurrence.
Couple of questions to ponder before the humor:
1. Why in the world would Adam and Eve try to hide from God? (He knows all)
2. Why does God ask who told them they were naked? why did he ask if they ate of the fruit? (Again He knows all)
Then Adam says a sentence that has forever labeled all males as complete and utter morons.
“I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
Can’t you just see Eve’s face when he says this!? Its amazingly hilarious to me to imagine that.
But Adam’s not done yet. He shows us all who perfected the “foot in the mouth” technique.
“It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
WOW!!! So now Adam has officially blamed God for creating Eve and Eve for giving him food.
So, the next time we mess up and don’t want to accept that we screwed up in life and that somehow its either God’s fault or someone else’s maybe this passage will give you a laugh.
We all know though that the first night out of the garden Adam slept on the couch.