1. Genesis 3
The Garden

2. By Roelant Savery (1576-1639). NOTEL Adam and Eve are NOT present!

3. By Lucas Cranch the Elder (1530). Tells the complete story
By Lucas Cranch the Elder (1530). Tells the complete story. Note the peacock!

4. Garden of Earthly Delight by Hieronymous Bosch (1490-151)
Garden of Earthly Delight by Hieronymous Bosch ( ). Garden of Eden  Last Judgment

5. Genesis 3 Read Genesis 3 To Love God One Tree Enter the Serpent
The Temptation

6. Read Genesis 3

7. To Love God Deut. 6:4-6; Matthew 22:36-38
The function of Man is to love God
BUT, loving a superior is not the same as loving an equal
But because Man has a true personality this love is not mechanical, but occurs by the wonder of choice.

8. One Tree
Note that the test does not involve a good tree vs. a bad tree
God simply confronts Man with a choice (Man has free will)
Knowledge (as knowledge) was not wrong; it was the choice to disobey God that was wrong
Man was not deterministically conditioned; It was a simple test and everything involved was absolutely plain.

9. Enter the Serpent Certainly we want to know more about the serpent
The Bible gives more later
The Theology of the Fall
Satan directly used the animal
The serpent appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh

10. The Temptation Genesis 3:1-4
Note the direct contradiction issued by Satan
Eve’s response
Eve’s new knowledge

11. Summary “We live in our thought life. This is who I am”
– Francis Schaeffer

12. Discussion Questions
Why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden?

13. Discussion Questions
Why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden?
Why did He give men the option of sinning?

14. Discussion Questions
Why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden?
Why did He give men the option of sinning?
What is the relationship between knowledge and sin?

15. Discussion Questions
Why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden?
Why did He give men the option of sinning?
What is the relationship between knowledge and sin?
What do you think is more important than knowledge?