Unconditional

Y'know what?  We're doing this thing we call Logos for my church, and it's where we read the entire Bible with manageable day-by-day readings.  And I actually noticed something a few days ago that I'd never noticed before.

When I read the story of the fall, I've always imagined that Eve was off on her own when the Serpent came to her, picking apples and possibly shining them every so often with her then-nonexistent sleeve so she could see her face better.  However, this appears not to be the case.  In Genesis 3:6, the Bible says "she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate."

Everything I thought I knew about that story is a lie!! xD  Adam was there throughout the entire conversation between Eve and the Serpent!  The wuss!!  He not only remains completely silent throughout the entire exchange (so much so that it's easy to overlook his presence), but he actually falls for the trick same as Eve, but since she took the first bite he blamed it on her, and because God happened to have made Eve for him, on God Himself!!  I bet Eve didn't talk to him for a week, and thus began the world's first marital problems!  I mean, obviously they eventually got over it, or we wouldn't have seen Cain and Abel, but I just can't imagine them speaking to each other for a while after that!

xD  I wish we would view people in the Bible more as real people like that. xD  I mean, I have a lot of trouble sometimes - some of them are just incredible.  Like David having so many chances to kill Saul (who was tried to kill him for no good reason, by the way), and he never did.  When Saul eventually died, I believe it was because he fell on his own sword (on purpose, of course, the equivalent of today's bullet to the head).  I just think that's a massive amount of mercy, there.  Would I be capable of the same thing?  I honestly don't know!