Genesis 3
Although at one point in human history God saw that “all that he had made” “was very good,” (1:31), we were not divine, and had the ability, and even the proclivity, to sin.
Eve’s particular proclivity to sin was deception (1 Timothy 2:14; 2 Corinthians 11:3). Adam’s specific proclivity to sin was “listening to the voice of [his] wife” (3:17), rather than obeying God’s command (2:17).
Many have speculated that part of Adam’s responsibility in cultivating the garden would have been to crush the serpent when he found him in the garden to “keep it” [safe] (2:15). Perhaps it was, and had it been to God’s ultimate glory for that to be His plan, we could reason that it would have come to pass. But God had a different, greater, plan.
God’s ultimate plan would not be for her husband to crush the head of the serpent, but for her seed to do so. Her husband was merely from the earth, but her seed was from heaven:
“45“So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.”
-1 Corinthians 15:45-47
It would take something more than earthly to save us. And it was always God’s plan for the man from heaven to be the one to bring us out of the corruption to which we fell. The rest of Scripture tells us just how that happened.
Eve’s particular proclivity to sin was deception (1 Timothy 2:14; 2 Corinthians 11:3). Adam’s specific proclivity to sin was “listening to the voice of [his] wife” (3:17), rather than obeying God’s command (2:17).
Many have speculated that part of Adam’s responsibility in cultivating the garden would have been to crush the serpent when he found him in the garden to “keep it” [safe] (2:15). Perhaps it was, and had it been to God’s ultimate glory for that to be His plan, we could reason that it would have come to pass. But God had a different, greater, plan.
God’s ultimate plan would not be for her husband to crush the head of the serpent, but for her seed to do so. Her husband was merely from the earth, but her seed was from heaven:
“45“So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.”
-1 Corinthians 15:45-47
It would take something more than earthly to save us. And it was always God’s plan for the man from heaven to be the one to bring us out of the corruption to which we fell. The rest of Scripture tells us just how that happened.
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