Bible in 16 Verses Chapters 3-4
At this point, you might be asking, if God made everything to be good, and he created human beings to rule over his good creation, then why is the world so broken?
What we do know about this tree and God’s command not to eat from it is that God was protecting Adam and Eve.
So as part of the covenant relationship between God and human beings, God asked them to trust him and obey him. He asked them to believe that what he told them was the best thing for them
Again, this story sounds really familiar. How often do you hear from others or, more likely, from yourself that God’s commands are designed to kill your joy?
by the time Eve actually looked at the tree and noticed how delightful it really was, there was no turning back.
Seeing the beauty of the tree and its fruit, she may have been tempted to value it, the creation, more highly than she valued God, its Creator.
It was a spiritual death, a death to their intimacy with their God and Creator.
But even in the midst of this darkness, we find notes of hope. God did not leave Adam and Eve naked (Gen. 3:21). He provided them with clothes, and in so doing, he gave them a picture of the redemption he would provide for them.
But even in the midst of this darkness, we find notes of hope. God did not leave Adam and Eve naked (Gen. 3:21). He provided them with clothes, and in so doing, he gave them a picture of the redemption he would provide for them.
While this cannot mean that God will make “every day a Friday” or give you “your best life now,” it does mean that we must never lose hope in God’s commitment to make all things that have gone wrong right again.
But the son of Eve actually proved himself to be more in the line of the Serpent than in the line of the woman. Cain did not crush the head of the Serpent. Instead, he crushed the head of his own brother.
But let’s not misunderstand what is happening. This is not a yin and yang deal, where everyone is waiting for the seed of the woman to show up and bring balance to the force. The reality is that when God decides to show the seed of the Serpent what he can and will do, the true imbalance of power becomes crystal clear in a hurry.
The seed of the Serpent were decimated and God’s righteous judgment was displayed, showing that he is serious about judging sin.
You see, all of Genesis 4–11, and indeed all of the rest of the Bible, is really just the outworking of Genesis 3:15.