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About Jesus - Steve (Stephen) Sweetman
Blaming
Others Our
human, and I would say, sinful, human tendency is to be defensive, and
in the process, we blame others for that which we should be blaming
ourselves. Blaming others
and not ourselves has been our tendency since the beginning of days.
It is a product of our free will that has chosen to disobey the
God who has created us to exist in communion with Him and those to whom
He has placed us alongside. Blaming
others was first seen in the events that we read about in Genesis 3.
After Adam and Eve disobeyed God's command, all sorts of sinful
human tendencies flooded their way into humanity, and blaming others was
just one of them. Read
Genesis 3, verse 8 and following. "Then
the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God
as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they
hid from the Lord God
among the trees of the garden. But
the Lord God
called to the man, 'Where are you?'
He answered, 'I heard
you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I
hid.' And
he said, 'Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from
the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?'
The man said, 'The woman you
put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.'
Then the Lord God
said to the woman, 'What is this you have done?'
The
woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.'" Even
the briefest reading of the above passage tells us that Adam blamed Eve
for his sin and Eve blamed the serpent for her sin.
Neither would take personal responsibility for their sinful
actions, and, it has been that way with humanity ever since.
The
simple fact from what we learn here is that blaming others is in direct
response to a life that is lived apart from God's plan for our lives.
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