Talk Together
Family conversations with God’s Word.
Think about one of your favorite stories. Does it have a good person and a bad person? A hero and a villain? Most stories do. The villain does bad things that cause people pain and suffering, but then the hero comes into the story, stops the villain and saves the day!
The story of Earth has a hero and villain too. If you flip back in your Bible to the first book called Genesis, you will learn the true story about the first man and woman God created — Adam and Eve.
God created the perfect place for Adam and Eve called the garden of Eden. There, Adam and Eve had perfect fellowship with God.
God warned Adam and Eve not to eat from one tree in the garden, but guess what Adam and Eve did? They listened to the villain, a crafty serpent, who told them to disobey God and eat what God specifically told them not to. Both Adam and Eve chose to sin. Help me find Genesis 3:14-19 to learn the true story of what happened after Adam and Eve ate what God told them not to.
ESV
The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 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.” To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.” And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden and had no pain or suffering, only joy and happiness. But Adam and Eve chose to listen to the serpent and sin.
The Bible tells us the true story of what happened when sin entered the world. Because of one man’s decision, sin entered the world and brought death to everyone. All of us have chosen to sin, and those choices have consequences. Sadly, the payment for sinning is death.
Because of sin, humans are separated from God, our Creator. Without God in our lives, humans have no hope of defeating sin. This may seem sad, but God’s Big Story isn’t over! A hero is coming!