Right away we are challenged. Did you notice that there are two different Creation stories in the first three chapters of Genesis (the second one begins at Genesis 2: 4b)? And there are differences in those two stories. Right away we become aware that these are not historical, factual accounts. They are accounts of TRUTH. God creates. God is the Creator of all. God desires a relationship with human beings. Even when we get to Matthew and we read the first chapter with the genealogy of Jesus, claiming to have 3 different groupings of 14. The number 14 was significant for a reason (perhaps because it is the numerical value of the name of David in Hebrew), so some effort was put into having a symbolic repetition of it in the genealogy. But, if you count them, the final set falls short. So, this is not necessarily factually accurate either. But it is the TRUTH. Jesus is the Messiah; the One we have been waiting for to save us from our "fall" in Genesis 1-3.
So, question: According to Genesis, God says that Adam and Eve will die if they eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (another way of saying of knowing everything, from A to Z). But they eat of it and they don't die.....or do they? What do you think God may have meant by that?
In dying he meant that there will be physical death and not only that but now sin is alive and well. (The wages of sin is death)
ReplyDeleteAlso, The Fall opened all of humanities eyes, causing us to make our own judgments, not leaving it to God. And just a side note--that was probably the WORST feeling getting kicked out of Eden.
ReplyDelete"Sin came into the world through one man (Adam), and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned" (Rom. 5:12).
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