A Bible study of a Thomas; Genesis 3: 1-24

Genesis3

New International Version (NIV)

The Fall

By this title I think it means Adam and Eve’s fall from paradise not the autumn (the season before winter)

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

But if god created it with all of that craftiness inside of him but he didn’t tell either of the humans what to look out for as he knew that all of this was inevitable if he didn’t intervene so if he really did love us he should have stopped them by not having a giant tree with the forbidden fruit on it in the first place and I am also confused about why they haven’t got any children yet either as didn’t god say at the beginning that he wanted them to “be fruitful and increase in number fill the earth and sub...” Genesis 1: 28, but if he loves us so much why does he make a snake, yes I’m typing about those little worm like things have more common sense than the first human woman I’d feel insulted on her behalf if she was real.

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

So your allowed to eat any tree from inside the garden which is on a flat earth with one river that has four tributaries feeding it but he four tributaries divide the land up into four districts but that doesn’t account for the fifth land mass as you may have the four tributaries but then where is it supposed to go supposed to go when they have all met up at the mouth of the biggest river, but I have had an idea which would only work if you made sea mean river, but that wouldn’t work as he has declared them as two separate entities.

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Well it depends what you mean by certainly die because death is the only thing in this life that is certain, I mean it’s not certain that you’ll even live one day or that you’ll ever be kissed, hit, laugh, cry, fail or succeed but if by certain god meant immediately then I have to say that god is the liar not the snake.

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

So basically both of them have now eaten the fruit and they have realised that they are naked so they have made some rudimentary underwear for themselves Adam was probably wondering why his never regions were probably in a lot of pain by about now with all of that rambling that he has been doing to get around without his privates protected. Eve would be finding similar pains but I am unsure so I’ll ask some female friends. I asked 5 of my female friends on Facebook and one of them has blocked me for asking the question, I’m still waiting for two of them to answer, one answered yes I recon so and then the final one answered erm I don’t think so.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

God is walking now? So he must have a body as well as a sprit, I know that he supposedly looks like us as we are made in his image or is it the other way around as he was in spirit form when he first created us so maybe that is his natural appearance and he just made himself look like us as that is more acceptable to our primitive minds or maybe, I think this one is the actual one, when these stories where created the man that created this character decided that to make him a more powerful leader he needed the backing of another man that no one could question.

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

But why isn’t god supposed to be naked as well at this time?

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

By the way god you’re supposedly all-knowing creator of all you should know as you were supposed to be around by them at the time as part of your omnipresence.

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Pass the blame why don’t you very chivalrous of you, I think not. No honour between thieves I think as proven by this bible passage, or at least no honour between two human beings.

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

Ok so god is taking sides now when he already knows what happened or is he really that blind, so much for the omniscience of god.

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Let’s pass the blame, why couldn’t either of you two just have said sorry instead of passing the blame. It just gets exhausting.

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust
    all the days of your life.

What so snakes used to walk, on legs but aren’t there still today creatures that look a little like snakes but they walk called crocodiles? But anyway snakes don’t eat the dust they eat many things but not the dust,
 
15 And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring[a] and hers;
he will crush[b] your head,
    and you will strike his heel.”

Enmity a word meaning a hatred being actively opposed towards the other creature or hostile towards it, now that is one passage has just shown me that god was the thing in the bible that initiated hate not the snake, but god

16 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.”

Cruel and technically from gods perspective irrelevant, as he created woman to accompany man as a lesser being than man to start with hence why he took a bone out of Adams ribcage instead of creating them at the same time, at least myself and many of the others like myself respect women, they’re rights and as equals to one’s self, if not my betters like all seem to be to me sems a bit harsh for Gods mistakes

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
    through painful toil you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.

This punishment seems a bit more lenient than his previous punishments as he has cut off the snake legs made all of Eves offspring hate snakes and he has ordered them to kill snakes by gruesome means, smashing the snakes heads in I think that is relatively gruesome, and for Eve that you hadn’t properly prepared for that type of existence, by this I mean leaving out all critical expectations that a normal human being of the 20^th/21^st would be expected to follow, so that being as it is I think that is Adam getting off lightly.
 
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
    you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”

Now apparently we came from dust I have heard people say we came from the dirt and from clay before but never dust, except from a YouTube clip that said we all came from star dust which he explains that it means the elements that make up our bodies are created by stars and every so often in a solar flare or such like happens those elements are released into space but our planet has collected enough of these particles to sustain the life forms that we see today while we are living on its surface.

20 Adam[c] named his wife Eve,[d] because she would become the mother of all the living.

Oh how touching Adam thinks of himself as god.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Why has he created another tree one to make whoever eats it immortal, so to get to the garden of Eden you have to travel east and when you reach the garden of Eden you have to go east again and eat a fruit from a tree which is guarded by angels and a flaming sword something like that should be hard to miss especially now there are those eyes in the sky, satellites, but still noting is there I think a very old book is lying once more.