In this week’s lesson ask yourself why do humans Die?
From this week onwards we will be going through the commandments that God gave. The last two weeks we discovered how critical the commandments are to our relationship with God. In the next following weeks we will look at the commandments in detail. We'll also use the stories in the following chapters as we continue to read the book of Genesis.
In chapter of 2 of Genesis, God had commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit. God could have put the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in another location where Adam and Eve could not rich. Instead God chose to put the tree in an accessible place on purpose. A very important lesson was being demonstrated by God. It was to teach Adam and Eve that they were only to honour the Word/Law of God and no one else. The tree stood as a physical symbol of Honouring that Word/Law. Adam and Eve would show their Honour by not eating the fruits of the tree.
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil their Honour to God was lost. Instead they honoured the words of the serpent more than God’s word. The serpent is also known as the devil or Satan (Revelation 12:9). As a result sin came into the world along with death (Romans 6:23). The definition of sin is simply going against God’s Word/Law (1John 3:4) and the consequence of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit they brought about the beginning of a sinful world. As the parents of Earth’s human race, all the children born from them would sin to destruction. As a result humans die today because we sin. Note that Adam ate the fruit because of his wife (Genesis 3:17). This lesson is to show us that sin can come from anyone even the closest people to us. In such moments we still need to only follow the Word/Law of God regardless of who tells us to go against it.
Seeing as though we had no relations why would the serpent or Satan seek to make the humans sin?
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