STUDY 10

STUDY No. 10 - THE FALL OF MAN - GENESIS 3:1-21

This is similar to Study No.6, in that it is based on a passage from the Scriptures rather than on an aspect of Christian doctrine.The object of the exercise is to gather information, promises and lessons for living today.

Read the passage through at least a couple of times. There are bound to be ideas or concepts that escape many readers the first time round, especially if what is being read challenges the reader's prior assumptions or beliefs.
INTERESTING-LOOKING VERSES are always worth mulling over.

What are the FOUR MAIN SECTIONS of the passage? It is often useful to tag sections with a key word or phrase. Of course there may be less than four sections in your view - or more!
Note any PROMINENT PERSONS or PLACES mentioned.
There is a PROMISE in the passage, but it may take time to find.
Which verse mentions a SIN TO AVOID?
Can you find a COMMAND TO OBEY? Which verse?
Is there a WARNING I SHOULD HEED? Which verse?
Is there SOMETHING DIFFICULT about which I could research or ask an older Christian friend? Make a note of it.

"In the scripture we are told that God created the heavens and the earth and that He made man.

Genesis 1:27	Genesis 5:1,2	Genesis 6:7	Deuteronomy 4:32
Psalm 104:30	Isaiah 45:12	1 Corinthians 11:9

He made and formed man out of the dust of the ground.

Genesis 1:26 Genesis 2.22 Psalm 100:3 1 Timothy 2:13

As to his body, it was made of the dust of the ground; as to his immaterial nature, he was made by the special inbreathing of God

Genesis 2:7

Job 33:4,5

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Now this conception of man - special creation - gives him a peculiar dignity of being and responsibility toward the One who created him, that no other theory does.

The 'Theistic Evolutionist' is a believer in God; in fact, he may even believe in Christ and His substitutionary death for our sins, but he accommodates the Genesis account to the theories of evolution by suggesting that Genesis need not be interpreted literally, in which case Adam would not have been a real person. However it must be said that no theory of evolution stands up to the facts of science. With the passage of time the biological and physical sciences and archaeology have only served to prove the accuracy of Scripture and the fallacy of evolution. For a fairly quick overview of the evidence against evolution, see "Why I Accept The Genesis Record"(1959). You may also wish to see the extensive range of material produced by the Creation Science Movement.
The following scriptures are commended to those who are tempted to swallow the humanistic ideas behind all theories of evolution:

Matthew 19:4	Mark 10:6	Luke 3:38
Romans 5:12-14	1 Corinthians 11:9	1 Corinthians 15:21,22,45,47
2 Corinthians 11:3	1 Timothy 2:13. 14	Jude 14

"In the final analysis we must choose between man having evolved by selection or man having been created by God. Whichever we choose to believe, we must accept by faith, for neither qualifies as a scientifically established fact."

I do hope you are getting into the habit of looking up every scripture quoted. Therein lies the value in this kind of Bible Study.
Now some find it difficult to believe the story of the fall as literal fact. Was there an Adam and Eve? Was Eve the first woman? Was Adam the first man? Did sin come into the world by one man? The Bible authenticates itself to the sincere seeker of truth. Read the last group of scriptures above, and notice who is speaking each time, and what they believe.

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