Hannah Thomas

Mark:
I’m not sure you understand the concept of blame shifting.

Eve told God what had happened to her. The serpent deceived her, and she ate. She told God this is what happened, and it did happen that way.

That isn’t blame shifting! Its telling it how it is.

Adam blamed God and the woman for the reason he ate.
You acknowledge the fact Eve was deceived. Are you trying to say Adam was also?

It seems to me that you are saying when you tell someone what happened – and the fact that it really did happen that way – you are ‘blameshifting’. The concept of blame shifting doesn’t work that way. Blame shifting is making excuses for what they did, and attempting to place the blame on someone else when they refuse to own their actions.

Eve did not do that – Adam did.

How can you say Adam was not cursed?

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you shall eat the plants of the field; (Genesis 3:17-18)

The curse of the ground was due to Adam. Therefore, the curse of the “ground” was, more likely, a curse directed against Adam for his transgression against God’s rules.