Chapter 6: "A Call to Remember"

This chapter started off slow, but I was digging on it by the end. Before I get to the quotes I am going to try and describe what Crabb was saying...

As men we are not necessarily called to lead, or to be powerful. We are in fact called to remember. You see when Adam was being silent as Eve was being tempted by the snake, he wasn't actually being silent. He was taking action, the action was to refusing to remember. If we are going to sin (insert your favorite sin... lusting, greed, whatever) then we are not at that moment close to God. In fact we are not remembering what God has done for us and we are not remembering how powerful God is. What we are doing at that moment is refusing to remember what God is and what he is all about.

Ok, not sure if that made sense. Here are some quote to clarify...

Page 79:
"Genesis 1:27 tells us explicitly that God created man and woman "in this own image,... male and female he created them." In this passage, the word male is translated from the Hebrew word Zakar, which means "the remembering one." What a curious word to describe a man. One might have expected a word meaning "the strong one," "the one who leads," or "the powerful one." But instead man is described as the one who remembers."

Page 84:
"Sinful choices require that God be forgotten. In this sense, forgetting is about more than just misplacing car keys. It is an active and willful choice -a refusal to remember."