This is a Bible Story concerning how human beings sinned against God by disobeying Him. This was the reason why people die.
God was the one who created man and woman. The man’s name was Adam and the woman’s name was Eve.
God used soil from the ground to form Adam, and then He took one of
God was pleased with them. He planted a beautiful garden called the Garden of Eden and put them there to cultivate it and watch after it.
God planted all kinds of beautiful fruit-growing trees in the garden and gave Adam and Eve permission to eat fruit produced by the trees.
But there was one tree in the middle of the garden. God told them not to eat any fruit from the tree. That tree was the tree that gave knowledge of what was good and what was bad.
God told them that any day they ate the fruit of that tree, they would definitely die.
But a tragic incident happened in the Garden of Eden when snake came to Eve.
Snake Enters the Scene
One of the animals God created and put on earth was snake. It was more cunning than any other animal God created.
One day, while Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden enjoying the blessings of God, snake approached Eve and cunningly asked her, “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”
Eve answered, “We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it. If we do, we will die.”
It was just a particular tree that God told Adam and Eve not to eat its fruit. That was the tree that gave knowledge of what was good and what was bad. But the snake cunningly asked Eve the question saying “… any tree in the garden?”
The snake went ahead to tell Eve that Adam and She would not die. It told her that God said so because God knew that if they ate the fruit of that tree, they would be like God and would know what was good and what was bad.
Eve Falls For The Snake’s Lies
The snake’s lies first struck Eve on the eyes. The Bible Story says that she saw that the tree was beautiful.
Then the lies hit her appetite and she felt that the fruit would be delicious.
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Her thoughts were next in line for snake’s lies. The lies penetrated her mind and she started thinking of what life would be like if she became wise by eating the fruit.
She willingly bowed to the snake and what the snake said. She took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband Adam who ate it as well.
Because both Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating that fruit, their eyes were opened immediately and they realized that they were naked.
They dashed around the garden looking for something they would use in covering their nakedness. The only things they could find were the leaves of a fig tree. They sewed the leaves together and used them to cover their nakedness.
God Arrives In Garden of Eden
While the snake was tempting and deceiving Eve, in the Garden of Eden, God was watching. He didn’t stop Adam and Eve from doing what there desired to do. Why? Because God created them and gave them free will of choosing to obey or disobey Him. They made their choice by doing what the snake asked them to do.
That evening, God came into the garden for a walk.
The moment Adam and Eve heard God walking in the garden, they dived for cover and hid themselves from God among the trees. But can someone be able to hide from his Creator?
God immediately called Adam and said, “Where are you?”
Adam answered, "I heard you in the garden. I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked."
God asked him who told him he was naked. He asked him if he had eaten the fruit He told him not to eat.
Adam refused to take the blame for disobeying God. Rather he put the blame on his wife. He told God, “The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
God turned to Eve to find out why she ate the fruit and gave it to her husband. Her response was that it was the snake that tricked her into eating the fruit.
God Punishes the Snake, Eve and Adam
Snake’s Punishment
After Eve told God that the snake tricked her into eating the fruit, God said to the snake, “You will be punished for this. You alone of all the animals must bear this curse.
From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live.
I will make you and the woman hate each other.
Her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite their heel.”
Eve’s Punishment
After punishing snake, God told Eve that He would increase her troubles during pregnancy and her pains when she is giving birth to a baby.
He told her that in spite of her troubles and pains, she would always have desire for her husband and he would rule over her.
Adam’s Punishment
Then God turned to Adam and told him that he listened to his wife and disobeyed Him (God) by eating the fruit He told him not to eat. Because of what he had done, God gave him these punishments:
· The ground would be under curse because of what he (Adam) had done.
· Adam would have to work hard all his life to make the ground produce enough food for him.
· The ground would produce weeds and thorns.
· Instead of eating the tasty fruit in Garden of Eden, Adam would have to eat wild plants.
· Adam would have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything.
· Adam would remain under the curse until he dies and returns to the soil from which God had formed him.
After God had told them their punishments, He used animal skins to made clothes for Adam and Eve and then He clothed them. They had to get rid of the fig leaves clothing they had earlier made for themselves.
God finally drove them out of the Garden of Eden so that they would go and cultivate the ground which God had cursed.
Genesis 3:1-23
Questions:
- Which animal was the most cunning animal that God created?
- Who was tricked by the snake?
- State the three things that happened to Eve just before she took the fruit and ate?
- Why did Adam and Eve hide from God when God came into the Garden of Eden?
- How did God punish the snake?
- What was Eve’s punishment?
- What was Adam’s punishment?
- Who gave Eve the fruit to eat?
- Who gave Adam the fruit?
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