- Next Friday is Quiz 2a: Genesis 2:18, 22, 23
Handouts: None given
Reminders: Picture day is on Tuesday, next week!
- Book Report Key Due-Dates: Title & Author (Mon, Sep. 11, written on a paper in class), Pre-Reading Form (Mon, Sep. 25, @ start of class), Book Report/Project (Mon, Nov. 13, report on TurnItIn.com / Art @ start of class)
Journal: None given, students studied for & then took their quiz.
Genesis 3) The Fall of Mankind: Study Packet, Page 2
- What did God say was forbidden for Adam and Eve? Genesis 2:16-17
- - The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
- A serpent (described as 'more crafty than any of the wild animals.') tempted Eve (Adam's wife) to sin
- - Rev. 20:2 shares that the serpent was Satan (also see Rev. 12:9 and John 8:44)
- - - Among other things the Bible describes Satan as "Father of Lies" and the "Serpent of Old""
- - Satan cast doubt
- - - On God’s words by misquoting God and accusing Him of lying:
- - - - "You must not eat from any tree in the garden"
- - - - "You will not surely die. . . your eyes will be opened and you will be like God."
- - - On God's character: By suggesting that God doesn't want Eve to have what's best for her
- Eve chose to sin
- - She shared with Adam, who also chose to sin.
- - Both of them then felt shame and ran from God
- God reached out to them
- - He gave them consequences,
- - But He also promised a future hope
- Adam and Eve were sent out of the Garden of Eden (which was a paradise on earth)
Genesis 3) The Fall of Mankind: Study Packet, Page 3
- What does this teach us about God (Theology) and People (Anthropology)
- What does this teach us about God (Theology) and People (Anthropology)
- Theology: God:
- - Cannot allow sin
- - Is willing to forgive and heal us
- - Planned our salvation from sin from the beginning: This is seen in…
- - - The animal being killed instead of Adam and Eve
- - - The curse of Satan referencing Eve’s male descendant who would crush him
- Anthropology: We: Are broken by sin
- - Sin tempted us because:
- - - Looked good to the eyes: Lust of the eyes
- - - Seemed good for food: Lust of the flesh
- - - Desirable to gain wisdom like God: Selfish Pride (“The boastful pride of life”)
- - - Look at 1 John 2:16 for a summary of these things
- - - - “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. ” (NASB)
- - - - Lust means 'desire,' you could even say 'evil desire'
- - - - Pride is basically wanting, pretending, or being more than God made you to be.
- - Sin causes us to:
- - - Feel shame: We have done wrong and we know it!
- - - - Adam and Eve had done something wrong and now experienced shame and guilt, wanting to cover themselves up. Also leading them to what is next
- - - Run / hide from God: Instead of coming to Him for a relationship and healing
- - - - God designed us for a relationship with Him, sin caused a break in this.
- - - Blame others for our sins: Instead of being responsible for our actions
- - Sin killed us: Read Genesis 3:14-19 for God's explanations of the consequences of sin.
- - - Spiritually: Our relationship w/God was broken
- - - - Instead of knowing and growing closer to Him, we now naturally run and hide from Him.
- - - Relationally: Our relationships w/each other were broken
- - - Physically: We will work hard to live and then we will die.
- - There is still hope for life:
- - - God could have killed us all right there, but He didn’t!
- - - God made Adam and Eve animal skin clothes,
- - - - Through the death of an animal, Adam and Eve's shame was (partially) taken away.
- - - - This is a hint at the future work of Jesus, through His death, our ultimate sin and shame was taken away!
- - - Adam named his wife Eve, “Living”
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