Adam rejected the sole love of God, and so got himself a wife. Adam did not marvel at Eve as being a wonderful creature in herself, but as being of the essence of his "bone of bone" and "flesh of flesh". Adam might as well have exulted in his own burgeoning "bone of flesh". Well done, Man.
(Adam's billions of kinsmen might also be judged by how well they have adhered to "sole love" of any person--and of course Jesus defined the thought of unfaithfulness as being the very act itself. Well done, Man.)
Adam, the first recipient of God's first warning--and subjected only to the wiles of his wife rather than those of the snake--failed to keep himself (and possibly his future offspring) free from the stain of sin. Well done, Man.
And Noah: His is a pitiful story. Cursed mankind would have been freed from earthly suffering if only Noah had not "found grace in the eyes of the Lord"--all alive then would have perished in the flood. Instead, Noah and his family survived. Instead, Noah survived, only to bequeath to us--through his curse on Canaan--the germs of race-hatred and genocide. Well done, Man.
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