#genesis 3

[frogoru]

redraw of something from a year or 2 ago

[gxxdnxises]

I started really reading the bible today. I believe in being grateful to the universe. I’ve tried to think of Christianity as something I believe in but mainly out of the fear of going to hell. but so far I’m still struggling. I think it may be real but I think it’s gross how much God punishes women in Genesis 3:16.

Genesis 3:16 NIV

“To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing

very severe;

with painful labor you will give birth to children.

Your desire will be for your husband,

and he will rule over you.”

Even the spacing freaks me out. I don’t want to worship something that wants me to be ruled. I dislike being referred to as an inferior being from the moment I’m created. If God is all-knowing he should have seen how wrong this is,,, but that’s according to today’s standards. Why is God against equality? It doesn’t feel like something to worship.

Genesis 3:15 however also feels freakishly real.

Genesis‬ ‭3‬:‭15‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“And I will put enmity

between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and hers;

he will crush your head,

and you will strike his heel.”

It feels as though it refers to bickering and the disagreements within partners and children. It all sounds so real but I do not like it.

Don’t you just have to agree that God created and gave himself for our “sins”. Do I actually have to support him?

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[nsfwbible]

'Ye shall be as gods'

What is up with that serpent in Genesis? The narrator tells us it is a wild animal like any other made by God, but "more crafty." And then it starts talking – and somehow it knows more about the Tree of Knowledge than God had revealed to Eve and Adam. "When you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil,” the serpent says.

The depiction in this early 16th century woodcut engraving by Lucas Cranach the Elder is appropriately enigmatic: a snake-tailed woman whispering in Eve's ear. The print is in the British Museum [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0]

[theexodvs]

Christ is King. Adam was also king, but he failed to exercise dominion over the serpent. Jesus has conquered the serpent, and all authority on Heaven and on Earth has been given to Him. He is enthroned at the right hand of the Father and will reign until His last enemy, death, is subdued.

Hosanna!

[lovelibertyrose]

Exploring Psalm 35:

Honest Prayers and Lasting Love Introduction: Psalm 35 has always intrigued me with its raw, emotional pleas for justice. In this psalm, David uses powerful language asking God to fight against his enemies and bring them to ruin. Yet, when we look at David’s actual responses to the deaths of those who persecuted him (like Saul and Absalom), we see him grieving deeply. He does not celebrate.…

[nathan-r-dooley]

The Seed of Today

A Morning Walk This morning, I rose with strange energy—despite just 4 hours and 28 minutes of uninterrupted sleep. No grogginess. No resistance. Just alertness. Purpose. As I geared up to walk our dog, Rocky, my wife Laura blinked in surprise. “Are you going for a walk?”“Are you okay? Why?” “The Lord told me to,” I replied, equally surprised at my own response. We exchanged a few words…

[just-bible-musings]

And this is what happens when people base all their opinions on a political agenda and not the Bible. Anytime you base your opinion on something other than the Word of God, it falls apart like a house built on sand (Matthew 7:24-27).

Now, I'm saying this as a single woman that has never been married or had kids. But marriage is NOT about children. Never was.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Genesis 2:7-8

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him... And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:18, 20-24

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.... Genesis 3:14

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. Genesis 4:1

We have no clue how much time passed between Genesis 2, when God created Adam and Eve, and Genesis 3 and 4, which details the fall of man and what happened after. It may have been days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, or even longer. The exact timeline is not given, and is not something I'm going to debate here.

According to the Bible, Adam and Eve didn't have their first child until after the fall of man. I don't know exactly how or why God accomplished this miracle, but that's what the Bible says. The conclusion we can draw from this is that Adam DID NOT marry Eve for the sole purpose of making babies and advancing the human race.

Now, as someone who's never been married, I can't honestly claim to understand the true purpose of marriage. But what I like to think is that the relationship between a husband and wife is meant to be a living parable of the relationship between God and humans, between Christ and the church, and the Holy Spirit and the individual Christian:

God is our Father (we literally call Him "God the Father"), but we can also view the relationship between God and humanity as similar to a husband and wife. He created us, he provides for us, even those of us who don't love or respect or want any kind of relationship with Him (Matthew 5:45), just like a husband is supposed to do for his wife, even if she doesn't respect his authority.

Jesus is our Saviour. He died for us, He died to save us from our sins, He is our protector. He protects us from Satan, just as a husband is supposed to protect his family from harm. Jesus literally calls the church His "bride" (Revelation 21-22, Matthew 9:15). And even if His bride strays from Him, He still pursues them, such as in the book of Hosea, in which the entire nation of Israel was compared to an unfaithful woman.

My thoughts on the exact nature of the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the individual Christian would take some explaining, and would include some PG-13 elements. I'm not comfortable going into detail on this yet. Suffice it to say that the Holy Spirit is described in the Bible as living inside us (1 Corinthians 3:16). The Spirit does not control us, but the union we have with the Spirit is similar to the union that God intended to be between a husband and wife (Ephesians 5:31-32).

So, no, I don't believe that God ever created marriage just for the sake of children. Children are a potential outcome of marriage, and a very good one. And, like marriage, the creation of children is a parable of the union between the Holy Spirit and the Christian- this is yet another topic that I won't go into here, but the act of witnessing and leading people to Jesus, through the direction of the Holy Spirit working within a Christian's life, could be compared to a married couple having children.

But children are not the be-all and end-all reason for marriage, and I think that anyone who tries to claim they are simply does not understand the Bible or salvation.

[bvthomas]

Leviathan and the Serpent: A Journey Through Scripture

In the vast tapestry of scripture, the serpent slithers through the pages as a symbol of profound complexity, its form shifting from deception to redemption, from evil to wisdom. This exploration ventures beyond conventional exegesis to uncover a “heavy load of truth,” culminating in the enigmatic figure of Leviathan—a serpent-like entity entwined with chaos, pride, and the mysterious forces of…

[404-found]

How to Catch Sin Before It Grows

You don’t fall into sin by accident. Nobody just “slips” into adultery.Nobody just “wakes up” addicted.Nobody just “accidentally” walks away from God. It always starts small.It always starts inside.It always starts with something you could have caught if you were paying attention. And if you don’t kill it early.It will kill you later. “But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed…

[jamestippins]

End Times Eve - Her Role in the Apacolypse | Reclaiming Eve pt 12

Eve and the New Creation: Eschatology and the Role of Women in Redemption Introduction: Eve’s Eschatological Significance Eve, the first woman and mother of all living, bears immense theological significance in the creation and fall and within the eschatological framework—the study of end times and ultimate restoration. The story of Eve, often explored through the lens of original sin and human…

[rcsvendsen]

The Holy Seed

“Then I said, ‘How long, O LORD?’ And he said: ‘Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,'”Isaiah 6:11 Isaiah chapter 6 is a portion of scripture I have heard many, many times, but it’s mostly the beginning of the chapter that people dwell on. The magnificent vision of I AM, the LORD of hosts, seated on His throne with His robe train…

[pastorhogg]

Old Words That Teach New Life

I teach church history as part of my profession. In doing so, I’ve discovered it to be exactly what my teachers described—a wonderful means of keeping the faith. Of the figures from our pasve helped me, Martin Luther stands at the top of the list, as he continually points me away from myself and onto Christ and his word of promise. Luther’s Lectures on Genesis[1], begun arguably in 1535, serve…

[arcadebroke]

Interceptor Mega Disk

[kgdrendel]

The Curious Upside Down Kingdom of God Revealed in the First Prophetic Utterance in the Bible

The imagery in Genesis 3:15 is confusing in light of Isaiah 53, but that is a clue to our understanding

In my last blog article, I focused on the way that Genesis 3:15 anticipates and foreshadows the coming of a Messiah, generally, and how it was specifically fulfilled in the virgin birth of Jesus. Not only that, but it introduces a thread in Scripture (the elevation of women) at the very beginning that runs through the entire Bible. That the Bible uniquely elevates the stature of women despite…

[just-bible-musings]

I have been told, more than once, that I (cishet female) should be thanking the feminists in this world for alleviating the problems caused by the bad men in this world. Granted, they do have a point there.

But as a Christian, I see it this way: who is ultimately responsible for sin, in the first place? That's right. It was a woman. Furthermore, it was a woman that considered herself higher than both God and her husband. She was convinced that she should have the right to decide for herself (placing herself higher than God) and that she should have the right to tell her husband what to do (placing herself higher than her husband). These are the primary mindsets that I see in feminists.

Conclusion: feminism is, at its core, sinful.

At its best, it's just the feminists attempting to clean up the mess they made in the first place (which God already promised He will do, we don't need to). At its worst, it is yet another reason for people to completely reject God in an act of sheer rebellion (with the attitude of "I will do it MY way").

[rocketbirdie]

shinra mandated summer vacation