You are Adam, you are Eve (Genesis 3)

You are Adam, you are Eve, ya its true, I am no different than Adam, I am prone to the same choices. In the following passage we see really the first choice mankind makes. From what I can understand God has granted us the privilege to choose in life and in the following passage Adam and Eve acted on the privilege to choose. Yes they chose poorly, but now I ask myself and you, when we read this passage do we see ourselves making similar choices in our lives when we know better?

Genesis 3:1-13 (http://www.biblegateway.com)

New International Version (NIV)

The Fall

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

² The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ³ but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. ⁵ “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. ⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
⁸ 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. ⁹ But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
¹⁰ He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
¹¹ And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
¹² The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
¹³ Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

How often our we convinced by the crafty devil to choose poorly? How often do we then convince a friend, neighbour, etc., to make the same choice, maybe its to gossip, maybe its to steal or partake in something we should not, but we regularly are enticed and sometimes fall into the trap, don't we?

We are Adam and Eve

Thankfully we have a saviour