Genesis 3:12-19

This year we have covered the first seventeen chapters of The Gospel According To Matthew.

Matthew chapters 18 and 19 are two crucial chapters of the New Testament. These chapters have the answers (HOW/WHY) church today is NOT creating the value needed to bring about God's Will on earth as it is done in Heaven.

However, people miss the solutions presented by Jesus because they lack the foundational doctrine. We will see most churches today do the OPPOSITE of Matthew chapters 18 and 19.

In order to more fully appreciate the information, we will spend the rest of this month getting foundational background.

In the previous post, we covered Genesis 3:8-11 one verse at a time while giving the reader the opportunity to grow by PREDICTING who said the next verse and what the person said. Here are the actual verses:

"8 And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"

Here is the summary:

God did NOT condemn Adam and Eve EVEN at this point. Most people who tell this story present a God that is focused on judgment and condemnation for First Dimensional sin. However, we have seen this is NOT THE CASE according to the Bible.

God asked THREE Questions!!!!

In fact, did you notice anything strange about these Questions?

God asked Adam: Where art thou?

God asked Adam: Who told thee that thou wast naked?

God asked Adam: Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

We are going to conclude with a Question for you:

WHY did God ask Adam these three Questions?

In order to make this easier, let me share the two most popular answers to this Question:

1. God did NOT know the answers to these Questions.
-God did NOT know where Adam was.
-God did NOT know who told them they were naked.
-God did NOT know if they ate of the tree.

2. God knew, but He wanted Adam to know that He knew in order to judge/condemn him.

Notice, people who believe answer #1 are actually saying, "God is NOT God...He is NOT omniscient...HE doesn't know what has happened."

People who believe answer #2 are actually saying, "God is a Determinist (Calvinist). He is focused on things that are in the past...on things we can't do anything about...because He is NOT the God of the living. He wants us to focus on things in the past that we can't do anything about."

Remember, your Unaware Brain knows the non-contradictory answer.

Your conscious response shows how much incongruity you have when it comes to God's Word...and God's Nature.

Obviously, people who give (or teach) either of these two answers are damaging their brain...and the brains of others.

Today, we will answer this last Question in a non-contradictory manner...


GENESIS 3:12-19
"12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."

God asked Adam if he had eaten of the tree. Adam's response to God's Question was to state a FACT: I did eat.

However, Adam also stated a couple of facts BEFORE answering God's Question:
-God gave the woman to be with Adam
-The woman gave Adam the fruit

Both of these statements are FACTS...they are Right WHAT's.

We have seen TRUTH is a Right WHAT with a Right HOW/WHY.

We have seen DECEPTION is a Right WHAT with a Wrong (or NO) HOW/WHY.

Look at Adam's answer again...

Is there a HOW?

Is there a WHY?

It looks like the two preceding FACTS are the HOW and WHY!

Adam's WHAT: I did eat of the tree
Adam's HOW/WHY: God gave me a woman who offered the fruit to me

Remember, the WHAT is the effect...the result of the HOW and WHY (which are causes).

However, there is a subtle rationalization in Adam's response...

Remember, BEFORE Eve was created, EVERY animal was created, interacted with, found to be lacking, and named. How long was Adam ALONE? God SPECIFICALLY created Eve so that Adam was NOT alone (and so Adam would have a "help meet"...someone perfectly suited to helping him grow).

The woman ate of the fruit and then offered it to Adam. Adam's choices were:
1) to reject her offer and break Fellowship with her (and be alone) or
2) eat the fruit and continue to be in Fellowship with the one person God provided (AND break Fellowship with God...but Adam couldn't look Long Term at this point).

Now look again at Adam's answer to God's question of whether he ate from the tree:

"12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."

What is the next verse?
-Who spoke?
-To Whom did They speak?
-What did They speak?



A lot of people have God judging/condemning Adam at this point...after all, Adam just blamed God and Eve for his eating of the fruit.


THE NEXT (half of a) VERSE:
"13 And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done?..."
-God spoke
-God spoke to Eve
-He asked a Question

(This is actually only half the verse.)

God was STILL NOT focused on judging/condemning! He asked Questions. The same Question I asked you at the end of yesterday's post can be asked again: WHY did God ask Eve a Question about a past event?

What is the next (half of the) verse?
-Who spoke?
-To Whom did They speak?
-What did They speak?




THE NEXT (half of a) VERSE:
"13... And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."
-Eve spoke
-She spoke to God
-She stated two FACTS

It looks as if Eve's Right WHAT is: I did eat. (Effect)
Eve's HOW/WHY is: The serpent beguiled me. (Cause)

What is the next verse?
-Who spoke?
-To Whom did They speak?
-What did They speak?




Most people know God spoke to the serpent next. However, when a person has gone through this verse-by-verse exercise, they are SHOCKED to see God ONLY spoke in QUESTIONS. So far, God spoke four sentences and ALL four have been QUESTIONS! So, almost everyone states God spoke a Question to the serpent...

THE NEXT VERSE
"14 And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
-God spoke
-He spoke to the serpent
-God judged/condemned the serpent

Notice, God did NOT ask the serpent ANY questions...

So, now we see that when God judged/condemned, He made Statements. Option #2 from yesterday's post has just been confirmed WRONG. God did NOT ask Adam and Eve Questions about the past in order to judge/condemn them.

I hope you realize God already knew BOTH the FACTUAL and TRUTHFUL answers to His Questions...otherwise, He wouldn't be God.

God judged the serpent...

What is the next verse?
-Who spoke?
-To Whom did They speak?
-What did They speak?



NEXT VERSES
"16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
-God spoke
-He first spoke to Eve, then to Adam
-God judged/condemned them

Notice, God stated Adam shall NOW rule over her...because Adam did NOT rule over her before. God did NOT intend for males to rule over females. The reason WHY was according to Justice...according to Eve's HOW/WHY rationalization: the serpent beguiled me.

God stated Adam shall NOW work by the sweat of his brow for his physical supply (food)...after all, this all started because she was looking for food. However, it was by the sweat of his brow because Adam did NOT work by physical exertion before.

EVERYTHING Adam did was with WORDS...name the animals, teach his wife the Word of God...perhaps even HOW he tended the garden! (I've covered this before, but think about it this way, in the garden, we had the ability to affect the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical with Words through a Statement of the Will. The garden lost us the ability to do this directly in the Physical. Perhaps this will be restored in Eternity. However, we are still able to affect the spiritual with Words: Salvation and Spiritual Warfare.)

God's reason WHY for His judgment of Adam was according to Justice...according to Adam's HOW/WHY rationalization: Staying in agreement over physical supply (food) with the woman that was provided to me.

The serpent will have his head bruised by her seed because he used his head to beguile her. Her seed will have its heel bruised because she was deceived by the serpent. Grasping the heel means "supplanter"...to take something illegally or immoral means...deceiver. This comes from Jacob's birth...

Genesis 25:26 "And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. And his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them."

In fact, Tom Hubbard raises a great point in the comments section of this post that leads to this point: this passage in Genesis 3 is a mini-Judgment Day!

The curses God pronounces on Adam, Eve, and the serpent are according to their works...which is the Reward Judgment...which is a Quantitative Judgment determined by Justice.

God's expulsion of Adam, Eve, and the serpent from the garden is according to internal decisions...which is a Qualitative Judgment determined by Righteousness.

Just like on Judgment Day, one Judgment is for First Dimensional sins and the other Judgment is for Second Dimensional sins. We will look at this more closely tomorrow.


SUMMARY
We now know God was not focused on judging/condemning Adam and Eve.

He asked four Questions of Adam and Eve. However, God did NOT ask the serpent ANY Questions. God immediately judged/condemned the serpent.

Here's the question from yesterday's post: WHY did God ask Adam these three Questions?

God must have asked these question because He was looking forward. God asked because there was something He DIDN'T know for sure...something that hadn't happened yet. What was it?

God knew they had eaten from the tree.
God knew they knew they had eaten from the tree.
What didn't God know that was a future event?

The only explanation for this passage is God was focused on Adam's response to his own actions...not on the actual action of Adam eating of the tree.

Another way of saying this is: God was focused on Adam's Second Dimensional response to his First Dimensional sin...not on Adam's First Dimensional sin.

Let's take this one step further: God was focused on Adam's Thought Process!

We even saw yesterday the EFFECT of Adam answering God's first two Questions were WE got to see Adam's Thought Process!

Your Unaware Brain is a perfect modeler. Your Unaware Brain knows this is the correct explanation. Every attempt to justify or teach a different explanation is actually damaging your own conscious brain...and the conscious brain of others. Do you agree?

God asked Adam and Eve Questions in order to LEARN their response to their sin against each other...their response to their First Dimensional sin.

BOTH Adam and Eve responded TO GOD by blaming OTHERS!

Adam blamed God and Eve for his actions!

Eve blamed the serpent for her actions!

BOTH Adam and Eve committed Second Dimensional sin against God with their responses.

Adam and Eve were FACTUAL with their response to God...however, Adam and Eve were NOT TRUTHFUL with their responses to God. They were DECEPTIVE. They had a Right WHAT ("I ate the fruit") with a Wrong HOW/WHY ("others were the cause of my sin").

This was the FIRST SIN committed by humans against God.

Tomorrow, we will look at the effects of this "Original Sin"...

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