BIBLE LESSON GENESIS 3

In and out of the garden or bad little brats

Did anyone notice in Genesis 2: 4 that reference to the Almighty changed from God to the Lord God? Later in Genesis 4:1 it changes again to just the Lord. Later it alternates from one to the other chapter to chapter. from God to the Lord. I wonder if this is any significance. Maybe too many scribes had their hand in transcribing all those scrolls they later burned. I still cannot understand that suspicious act of destroying the documents they worked from. But then, I'm just and ignorant heathen. Okay, let us get on with the show.

Genesis 3

1; We are in the garden with a subtil serpent. I had to look this word up. It is a different spelling from subtle. I found it in the KJV Dictionary Definition: (subtil: Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; insinuating; deceitful and treacherous) were some of the definitions. The talking snake is asking the woman what God said about eating fruit from certain trees. Does anyone think it odd that a snake could talk while no other animals could? Personally, I believe it points out that these stories are merely fables, not actual events.

2 and 3: The naked young woman told him they could eat from all except one tree in the middle of the garden. If we ate of that tree we would drop dead right then, even if we just touched the tree.

4: The serpent said, "No, naked lady, that ain't so. He was pulling the wool over your eyes."

5: "He knows if you eat of that fruit you will know what he knows and you will be as a god too."

6: The naked lady saw that the tree was indeed pleasant looking with tempting fruit, so like most curious gals, she tasted of it. It was so good she slipped one to her hansom husband noticing a new glow about him.

7: Now both stood there observing each other with a fresh knowledge. They quickly grabbed up some fig leaves to cover themselves. They did not want the serpent getting an eye full of their nakedness.

8: Of a sudden, they heard the booming voice of their Lord God thunder out as he stomped through the garden. They quickly dove into the bushes.

9: The Lord God called, "Ad'am, where are you?"

10: "I'm hiding in the bushes, because I didn't want you to see me naked."

11: "Who told you, you were naked? Did you eat from the Tree I ordered you not to eat?

12: "This naked woman you made for me gave it to me."

13: "What have you done, Woman?" Their Lord scowled at the shivering, naked woman.

The naked woman clutching at her fig leaf and said," That silly serpent charmed me, the sly devil." she pointed to the serpent who was trying to conceal himself behind a limb of the forbidden tree.

14: The LORD GOD cursed at the serpent. "You are the lowest of all animals and you shall slither on your belly and eat dirt for all the days of your life, and the nights too.

15: There will be much hatred between you and the woman, your seed and her seed, and she will stomp on your head and you will bite her heel.

16: And you young lady, you are going to be sorry, especially when you give birth. You will greatly desire your husband get pregnant many times and it's not going to be easy for you. Your husband is the boss over you.

17: Ad'am," he said, "Because you listened to your wife and have eaten the fruit of my special tree, the one I commanded you not to eat of. I curse the ground you walk on and you will be sorry and eat off it all your life.

18: There will be many thorns and thistles in your garden and you will have to eat the herbs in the fields.

19 For all your sweat, you shall eat much bread until you return to what you came from; just a piece of dirt."

20: Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the first mother.

21: God killed a couple sheep and make his second-rate subjects coats of skins to cover up their nakedness.

22: "Okay, since man knows what is good and evil as well as us, let's put them out of the garden before they eat of the tree of life and live forever," he told his associates. Maybe he thought he could not put up with the two hellions for that long. We all know the answer to that.

23: Therefore, he chased man from his lovely garden, sent him to grow plants from the same poor soil he made him from. It does not say, but frail Eve must have followed Ad'am with her head bowed as she pulled at the uncomfortable animal skin scraping on her delicate skin.

24: After he drove the scallywags out, he made a fence of flaming swords to keep them from getting to the tree of life. Wow, he must have been really pissed. You know, if this is an example of how to treat you kids, I no longer feel so guilty about sending my kids packing when they became of age.

I think some basic instructions before he turned them loose in the garden might have been beneficial instead of threats of death for not obeying. This was not a very nice god in the beginning. It seems to me, he punished his subjects for his poor designs. His little ant farm got off to a bad start.

Keep in mind; these are only the thoughts of an ignorant hillbilly. Even I have a right to my beliefs.(Beliefs- acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty) I like this definition I found in the Encarta Dictionary. I am getting better. I only have to look up every third of fourth word now.

Thank you and have a pleasant day.

Ray