The fall of man is Adam’s disobedience in the garden.
She took of its fruit and ate,
and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin.
The seed of the woman is promised in the same chapter.
The fall is the event in Genesis 3. God had commanded Adam not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent questioned the word. Eve took and ate, and gave to her husband who was with her, and he ate. The eyes of both were opened. They hid. Death entered by that sin, and the ground was cursed. Original sin is the ruin that spread. The fall is the day it entered. In the same chapter God promises enmity and a seed of the woman who will bruise the serpent’s head.
- Jesus is the last Adam. Paul says as in Adam all die, so in Christ all are made alive. The fall is told so that the second man is seen.
- The church does not treat the chapter as a myth with a moral. Sin came through one man. Death through sin.
- Eve was deceived. Adam was with her and ate. The headship Paul names is Adam’s. Both ate.
They ate. They hid. Death entered. The seed is promised in the curse. Read the fall toward Christ.
She took of its fruit and ate, and gave to her husband.
Sin came into the world through one man.
In Adam all die.
The seed of the woman will bruise the serpent’s head.
- The fall is Genesis 3, not a general decline.
- The command was already spoken. The eating was disobedience.
- Eve took and gave. Adam was with her and ate.
- Death and the curse follow that sin.
- Original sin is the spread. The fall is the event.
- The seed of the woman is promised before Adam and Eve leave the garden.
- The Command – Do not eat of that tree.
- The Question – The serpent against God’s word.
- The Act – She ate, and he ate.
- The Result – Shame, hiding, curse, death.
- The Spread – Original sin.
- The Promise – The seed of the woman.
- Genesis 3:6 – “She took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”
- Genesis 3:15 – “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
- Romans 5:12 – “Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:22, 45 – “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive… The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”
- 1 Timothy 2:14 – “Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.”
She took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin.
He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
The fall is that eating. Death entered. The seed of the woman is promised in the same chapter. The last Adam is Christ.
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