Chapter three was the classic
look of the origin of sin in our world, but what was the beginning of sin and from
whom did it originate? Did it originate from the man or the woman?
Woman was always looked at as
the one who sinned first, but what of the man. Did he play any part in her sin?
Her sin was the eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. What caused
her to eat? Was it the craftiness of the snake or was it something else? What
gave the snake the edge in being able to beguile her?
It is true that the woman ate
from the tree first and that she gave to the man and he did eat next. It is my
understanding that she was given faulty instructions. The magistrates told the
man, that they were not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
but who told the woman that they could not touch the tree. The only person that
could have told her was the man. At that time, the only command they had to follow
that was written, was do not eat from the tree. So, not touching it was not
apart of the command, that was an alterations were forbidden (Deut. 4:2 &
12:32).
Telling her not to touch it
gave the snake an avenue to get her to distrust what the man told her. If he
could create doubt, he could persuade her to disobey a command and he did.
The man, on the other hand,
ate for more noble reasons. He ate so that the woman, whom he loved, would not
be alone. His first sin would not result in banishment, so he had to eat in
order to stay with her and he did.
The further results of the
sin, were hard labor, the hard labor in giving childbirth and for the man it
was hard labor in the field, or for whatever work he had to do to supply for
the needs of himself and his family.
In our culture today society
is trying to limit the result of the first sin, by not requiring man to work
for his daily sustenance. Our welfare system is an affront to the creator order
of man’s purpose. People should have to work for their welfare check, or food
stamps. They should not get it for sitting around doing nothing.
