Saturday, April 4, 2015

Desire and domination will hurt relations between the sexes

Genesis 3:1-24
Serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die, For God knows that when you eat of 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 good, and that it was a delight to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her.
She wanted simply to know as God knows, or to be God's equal.
The Lord said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life..."
And to Adam God said," Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field..."
The man called his wife's name Eve, "because she was the mother of all living."
Why?
Because of the serpent and Adam, Eve did not obeyed the commandment of God so there were curses to all livestock and beasts, and curses to the land.
Adam knew her wife ate the fruit of life tree, but he did not forbid her.
All of the sins are look good for man and made man delight, but the trap is behind it.
The woman will experience suffering - in childbirth. Man and woman are no longer at ease together. Desire and domination will hurt relations between the sexes. Adam's work will be sweat and toil.
Why?
Enter the serpent - a creature made by God and yet a rebel. Where does the bad come from in this good world? The story does not say. But clearly God has taken an enormous risk in giving his creatures the freedom to choose. What follows is brilliant insight into the psychology of temptation and sin: the attempt to shift the blame and eventual shame.
How?
Woman seems not only want to be wise but also like to be God's equal. Man has to be humble before the Lord and among other people.


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