Genesis: Creation, Dominion and Fall of Man

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Genesis 3 highlights and records the fall in a simplistic form so it can be easily understood. On the sixth day of creation, God formed man in his own image. Man who is in the image of God has “dominion over…all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:26). The question would not be about the appearance but the power of dominion of man who is made in the image of God. Genesis 2:7 tells us that," the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” He place man in the garden eastward in Eden to guard and keep it. (Genesis 2:8,15) God said,”it is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an help meet for him”. (Genesis …show more content…

In this scripture, the serpent said,” you will not die” is referring to a spiritual death. Rather than a spiritual death, neither Adam nor Eve had experienced evil. Their eyes were opened and they became like God having knowledge of good and evil. Their nakedness became an occasion of shame, which was impossible before they sinned in the garden. The day that they fell from grace, signifies that they were no longer in compliance with God’s commands. The serpent’s deceptive claim was to camouflage truth. Adam and eve experienced a spiritual death, not a physical death. This proves that there was truth in the serpent’s statement to Eve, but a difference in what both God and the serpent were referring to. Satan’s plan is to keep mankind deceived by making one believe that we are just physical beings. Adam and Even in the garden was God conscious and knew no sin. Partaking of the tree of knowledge, awakened their self-awareness of being conscious of their surroundings and their nakedness. Their disobedience birthed their self-awareness that disrupted their communication with

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