Adam named his wife WHAT?!!!!

The fall of man. What a story. The worst day ever in human history, and there have been some extremely bad days in human history. In chapter 3 of Genesis we have the famous story of the women being deceived by the serpent, eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and well you know the rest of the story.

Something very different stood out to me as I read this just the other day. Like many, I know the story very well, and have heard and read it for years, so I wasn't really expecting to see anything new here.

But there it was in verse 20: Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

He named his wife what???? Eve. It means life-giver or living. Wow, really. It's as though Adam just missed what happened.

Let's back up.

This women just royally screwed up. She was deceived, she ate, they hid, God finds them, God curses the serpent, increases the pains in childbearing, and curses the ground. God is barely finished cursing the ground because of their disobedience, "...for dust you are and to dust you will return."

And then Adam names his wife Eve.

What a husband! What redemption!

He could have named her: Cursed, Mother of all the dying, Wicked Lady, The Disobedient One, Deceived, The One That Screwth Up Everthingth......but he names her LIFE GIVER! Mother of all the Living!

Can you picture this?

Women says, "Wow, did you hear what God just said?"

Adam: "yep"

Women: "I really screwed things up"

Adam: "yes, we did."

women: "You know He's going to kick us out of the Garden so we can't eat from the Tree of Life and live forever."

Adam: "yeah, that's what He said."

Women: "That means we are going to die."

Adam: pause thinking, "You know what, women? I am going to name you Mother of all the Living."

Women: "Why!? Don't you think Mother of all the dying would be more accurate."

Adam: "nope, no....Mother of all the Living, Eve."

Women: "But I just ruined everything. You heard Him. The ground is cursed, we're going to have pain and suffering, AND we have to leave the garden, AND we're going to die!"

Adam: "Women you will be known as Life Giver, you will not be know as the one that brought death. When ever people speak of this incident until the end of time you will be known as the Mother of all the Living. They won't even be able to speak about this mistake without acknowledging your identity as their Mother, as their life giver. I will make sure that your identity is forever one of LIFE and not death.
Women, you shall be named Eve!"

Eve: speechless, sobing, holding her dear husband that has just redeemed her, covered her biggest mistake and has insured that her identity and legacy will be one of life, purpose and hope.

What a beautiful story of redemption squeezed into the opening chapters of the most beautiful story of redemption ever.