Dear God, Sundays are important because the Sabbath was inscribed into the order of creation. By observing the Sabbath, I am corresponding to your wisdom and your will as it is expressed in the work of creation. I create for six days, but I should spend the seventh day in rest. In my rest, I offer up all the work of my previous six days to you. This would be ideal, Lord. My spirit is willing, but my flesh is weak. Please help me observe the Sabbath, my Lord.
Review the command that God gave to Adam in Genesis ; then read the exchange between the serpent and the woman in Genesis The serpent was trying to get Adam and Eve to rebel against God by making them doubt that they were already like God because they were created in his image Gen Is God holding out on me?
The serpent claims that she will be like God. Dear God, this is the irony… the serpent offered what we already had. Adam and Eve were already like you because you created them, you created us, in your image. You were not holding out on us. You were trying to protect us.
If we had knowledge of good and evil, then we would then also define what was good and evil. God, you are the author of creation. So, you define what is good and what is evil. Only the author knows the purpose of writing the story, how the story should end.
Adam and Eve, by eating the forbidden fruit, hijacked the story of creation. They would always do good because you filled them and covered them in grace. They were the epitome of all the virtues [link to my blog entry on the virtues], but still had the freedom to sin.
Genesis NIV That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
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Theological FAQs [? Multi-Verse Retrieval x. En dash not Hyphen. Let's Connect x. Subscribe to our Newsletter. Daily Devotionals x. Daily Bible Reading Plans x. Recently Popular Pages x. Recently Popular Media x. In the third chapter of Genesis we have the account of the serpent tempting man and woman in the Garden of Eden. The serpent, which had not been previously mentioned, suddenly comes on the scene and becomes a major player in the drama of the Garden.
Real Or Imaginary Many questions arise. Was this an actual serpent or some other type of creature? Was this creature real or imaginary? What is the relationship of the serpent to the Devil? Did the serpent actually speak? How was the serpent able to enter the paradise of Eden?
Actual Creature? In Genesis three, the serpent, or snake, is an actual creature. It is not to be understood as an allegory or as a representation of some other type of creature. This was an actual being who was with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Scripture nowhere gives any indication for this story to be understood symbolically. How Did Serpent Speak? If the account is not an allegory, then how can we explain the ability of a serpent to speak?
The Bible provides no answer. How Eve heard the serpent is not explained either, but there is no indication that she was shocked to discover this creature could communicate with her. This has led some to speculate that before the Fall, animals had ability to speak. But it is not necessary to hold this view.
In the Book of Numbers we find God speaking to the prophet Balaam through a donkey. Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times Numbers Identity Of Serpent We have a similar situation here. Though the serpent is not explicitly identified in the Book of Genesis, he is identified with Satan in the last book of Scripture.
So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast out to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years Revelation ; Not Supernatural Being It does seem clear from Scripture that there was an actual serpent in the Garden-he is described as one of the wild animals that God had made Genesis ; 2 , The serpent was not a supernatural being.
In some way, Satan entered into the body of the serpent to tempt Adam and Eve. Therefore, Satan himself is the personage behind the serpent. The serpent was the instrument the Devil used to do his bidding. Thus we can conclude that the tempter was the Devil who was disguised in the form of a snake. According to Scripture, the career of Satan, or the Devil, has been steadily going down since his creation.
Originally he was created as a perfect being without any sin. Satan Cast Out At some unknown time in the past, he decided to rebel against God. When he rebelled against the Lord this beautiful creature became the Devil or the adversary. It is clear from Scripture that God did not create the Devil. This creature became the Devil when he decided to rebel against God. Cast Out Satan was cast out of God's presence because of his sin.
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