Are you talking about Adam or God? I wouldn’t say God blew it with Adam. I would say Adam blew it with Cain, but I don’t see anything that suggest Adam was a good father. That Cain didn’t even know how to worship God properly is a testament to bad child rearing. There isn’t any mention of Adam walking with God in the cool of the (day) after The Fall.
Do you have young kids? I do. I’m not going to plan to fail.
re: Are you talking about Adam or God? I wouldn’t say God blew it with Adam.
I am talking about God, our Heavenly Father. No, I am not saying God blew it with Adam & Eve. But by your recipe, He did, because if a child goes astray, you believe from what you said that it is the parent’s fault. They simply did not do a good enough job in parenting or they “planned for failure”.
God provided a paradise for Adam & Eve. He loved them and spent time with them. Yet, they chose to place their trust in the serpent’s words, rather than God’s and do the one thing that God had asked them not to do. It is the same with our children. We can teach them God’s ways. We can work to prepare them for adulthood. We can teach them a Biblical worldview. But one of the things you will learn as a parent is that you do not have total control over your children. While they are small you have a lot more control, but as they get older, they will necessarily have to make choices on their own. They will face influences that you did not choose for them. And factually, the world that we live in is pushing back hard against Biblical values. Just as God gave Adam & Eve freewill, He gives us all freewill to choose His ways or not.
I used to believe as you that being a dedicated and godly parent insured that none of my children would ever go astray. I too observed other parents going through some difficult times, and I assumed they must have done something wrong. I have come to conclude that teaching children what they should do and having them follow those teachings through young adulthood are two separate issues. Some of the godliest parents I know have struggled with their children once they became adolescents or young adults. Even Billy & Ruth Graham had prodigal children.
My point is that I would encourage you not to be quick to condemn other parents who truly did work to bring up their children right or accuse them of “planning to fail”. Parenting is the toughest job in the world. The hard stuff is not while your children are small. It is when they get older. It is an unspeakable joy when you see your children grow up into godly adults who love God, but it can also shred your heart when you see them make choices that do not reflect what you taught them.