1.3.10 -- Genesis 3

Genesis 3

This is NOT one of my favorite chapters. What a day I picked to start blogging this.

Gen 3:1 ~ I never noticed before that the serpent in this chapter is set apart from "any beast of the field which the LORD God had made."

Gen 3:1, 4-5 ~ Satan likes to twist God's words, even from the very start of his influence on earth. He turned the rule against the fruit of one tree into a rule against all fruit trees. And I can't help but think his emphasis was probably on the word surely in 3:4 (" 'You will not surely die' ").

Gen 3:6 ~ Apparently Eve had never considered eating what she was told not to before. The first time she notices that the fruit is "good for food" and "pleasant to the eyes" was after Satan tempted her. How very different human nature was before the fall! These days as soon as we're told we can't have something, that tends to be the one thing we focus on most. Yet Eve had apparently not even noticed the look of the fruit she was told not to eat until it was pointed out to her.

Gen 3:8 ~ The pre-incarnate Christ? Since God the Father has no physical presence it would seem likely that the LORD God they "heard" in the garden was not Him.

Gen 3:12 ~ Adam blames 1) "the woman" 2) "whom You gave to be with me." No blame for himself and none for the serpent who started the whole mess!

Gen 3:13 ~ The woman's blame seems more accurate: 1) "The serpent deceived me" 2) "and I ate."

Gen 3:14-15 ~ The first of the curse was not on humankind but on the serpent. It is arguably the most severe curse of the three. God knows who is to blame and to what degree.

Gen 3:20 ~ Eve had no name until after the curse. Don't know why but I had never noticed this before.

Gen 3:21 ~ Even in the midst of punishing them, God carefully provided for Adam and Eve.