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Chapter 8: God’s Creation Rejects Him

Connect…

Suppose you had a child who got mad at you and supposed he yelled at you, “I don’t love you anymore?
I no longer want to be your son (or daughter)!” How would that make you feel? It would certainly hurt
deep in your heart! Think about it. Today, we will see God’s specially created humans, whom He
intimately loved and cared for, reject Him in disobedience. How sad God must have felt! Let’s examine
the origin of SIN….

Objectives…

1. The student should be able to discuss the three main suggestions for who authored the book of
Genesis.

2. The student should be able to list all the various “origins” found in the Book of Genesis.

3. The student should be able to show how other Old Testament and New Testament books validate the
authenticity of the book of Genesis

The Lesson ...

Genesis 3:1-6 – The fall into sin

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the
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woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall
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not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you
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die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of
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it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired
to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with
her, and he ate. (ESV)

Before we consider this as a story of just a crafty talking snake, we must consider
the context in which it is told. First, a talking snake today would be amazing. In
the pre-sin world of creation, there might have been many animals that could
speak to each other and to man. Man, after all, was to have dominion over the
animals and to manage them, and wouldn’t it make sense that there would be a
reasonable means of communication between them? The best evidence for this

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