Bible Survey - #3 - Genesis 3

Paradise Lost

God gave man a beautiful environment to live in, a wonderful helpmate, and above all Himself. Man heard the Voice of the Lord. The Paradise of God was on the earth. But when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they turned away from the Lord's Voice, preferring the word of a creature to that of the Creator. One of the consequences of this sin was the removal of man from Paradise. The way back to God would come, but many generations would pass before the day of glory would be decisively accomplished. For now, the suggestive announcement of the Lord's full future victory would have to do. Adam believed, and that is why he gave his wife a name that had to do with living.

The Fall of mankind is very significant. We cannot understand the world we live in unless we are aware that God has subjected it to much futility, misery, and death because of Adam's sin. Yet the news is not all bad in Genesis 3. There will be pain in childbearing, but there will be children. There will be frustrations and setbacks in work, but there will be food. Above all, there will come a descendant of the woman whose heel heel will be bruised, but He will bruise the head of the serpent. Paradise would have to come to mankind in a new way.

Through Adam, sin and death came to the world.

The life of man has never been the same.

Yet One would come from woman and prevail,

And earth and heaven would again be one.