The Book of Beginnings

Studies in Genesis

Lesson 21 : Genesis 3:8-21 – Sixth Paragraph: The Judgment and The Sentence

THE LORD CAME DOWN, THIS WAS PROBABLY A HABITUAL THING WITH THE LORD – HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND THE LORD’S PRESENCE? – DID THEY HEAR THE ‘SOUND’ OR THE ‘VOICE’ OF THE LORD? – THE LORD ADDRESSES ADAM ONLY AT THIS POINT – THE LORD KNEW WHERE ADAM WAS HIDING – COULD THERE HAVE BEEN A DEEPER MEANING TO THE QUESTION? – ‘YOU VIOLATED MY COMMAND’ – INDIVIDUAL CULPABILITY FOR SIN – THE LORD DOES NOT DIGNIFY ADAM’S EXCUSES WITH A REPLY – THE LORD’S QUESTION TO THE WOMAN IS CLEARLY RHETORICAL – THE JUDGMENT ORACLES – THE SERPENT – THIS SERPENT IS ALSO A REFERENCE TO THE SATAN – GOD CURSES THE SERPENT AND THE GROUND BUT NOT ADAM AND EVE – PARALLELS WITH THE TEMPTATION (3:1-5) – WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL FORM OF THE SERPENT? – ‘SENSUS PLENIOR’ AND THE PROTEVANGELIUM – THE NARRATIVE PROGRESSES INTO THE FUTURE – ‘HER SEED’ AND THE ‘SEED OF THE SERPENT’ HAS BOTH A PHYSICAL AND A SPIRITUAL APPLICATION – ‘SEED, OFFSPRING’ COULD REFER TO INDIVIDUALS OR TO GROUPS – THESE ‘TWO SEEDS’ HAS IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS – THE HISTORICAL OUTWORKING OF THE TWO SEEDS – ‘CRUSH YOUR HEAD, CRUSH HIS HEEL’ THE SAME VERB USED TWICE – THE MESSIANIC CONCLUSION OF THE STRUGGLE OF GOOD AND EVIL – ‘HEEL’ AND ‘HEAD’ – THE VIRGIN BIRTH? – THE JUDGMENT ORACLES – THE WOMAN – UNUSUAL WORDS USED HERE FOR ‘PAIN’ – ‘GREATLY INCREASE’ – ‘RULE’ – THE JUDGMENT OUTSIDE OF CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE – THE JUDGMENT ORACLES – THE MAN – CREATION CURSED WITH ADAM, NOT THE SERPENT – ADAM NOW UNDERSTANDS WHAT IT MEANS TO DIE – CONTRA EVOLUTION – WAS THIS A SPIRITUAL COVERING AS WELL AS A PHYSICAL COVERING? – WHO ACTUALLY MADE THE SKINS?