Do you really believe Genesis 3?

Question

Have you ever heard of a small child who got in trouble by putting things in his mouth that did not belong there?

Have you ever heard of a child, who upon realizing that he had done wrong, tried to cover up his shame and the evidence of his wrongdoing with his own devices, hoping his parents would not notice?

Have you ever heard of a child, who upon having done wrong, hides from his parents?

Have you ever heard of a man, who upon having been caught in his wrongdoing, and asked a point blank question if he did it (yes so no), makes excuses and blames his wife?

Have you ever planted flowers in a cemetary? Jesus was buried in a garden. It wouldn't be because death came into the world in a garden now, would it.

Is it really that hard to believe Genesis 3 to be a true, factual, historical account of what really happened?

Answer 1

I believe that Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins. Without the fall of humankind, there is no point to His sacrifice.
Genesis is the base of Christianity, and without it, our faith is in vain. I believe in literal Genesis.

(And for all of you rolling your eyes out there, I actually did believe in evolution before I realized how illogical it was to believe it with Jesus. Yes, I also understand genetics, mutations, and all that fun stuff, and am not disputing it after the fall)

Answer 2

I believe Genesis 3 and all of the rest of the Bible.
But I have no idea what you meant when you said...

"Have you ever planted flowers in a cemetary? Jesus was buried in a garden. It wouldn't be because death came into the world in a garden now, would it."

Answer 3

I really preferred Genesis's first album. I like Peter Gabriel much better than that whining Phil Collins!

Answer 4

Good points...

I dont have a problem with Genesis 3 being a factual account.

Cordially,
John

Answer 5

I believe everything from the Bible

Answer 6

I believe the Bible literally, word-for-word, from beginning to end.

Answer 7

Ummm,
yes
yes
yes
yes
no, no it would not
yes

Answer 8

sounds like YOU believe. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!

God bless you.

Answer 9

I'm in.

I believe it.

Answer 10

Yes I believe this....
Genesis 3:1-24

1 Now the serpent proved to be the most cautious of all the wild beasts of the field that Jehovah God had made. So it began to say to the woman: “Is it really so that God said YOU must not eat from every tree of the garden?” 2 At this the woman said to the serpent: “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. 3 But as for [eating] of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘YOU must not eat from it, no, YOU must not touch it that YOU do not die.’” 4 At this the serpent said to the woman: “YOU positively will not die. 5 For God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad.”

6 Consequently the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was something to be longed for to the eyes, yes, the tree was desirable to look upon. So she began taking of its fruit and eating it. Afterward she gave some also to her husband when with her and he began eating it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them became opened and they began to realize that they were naked. Hence they sewed fig leaves together and made loin coverings for themselves.

8 Later they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden about the breezy part of the day, and the man and his wife went into hiding from the face of Jehovah God in between the trees of the garden. 9 And Jehovah God kept calling to the man and saying to him: “Where are you?” 10 Finally he said: “Your voice I heard in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked and so I hid myself.” 11 At that he said: “Who told you that you were naked? From the tree from which I commanded you not to eat have you eaten?” 12 And the man went on to say: “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me [fruit] from the tree and so I ate.” 13 With that Jehovah God said to the woman: “What is this you have done?” To this the woman replied: “The serpent—it deceived me and so I ate.”

14 And Jehovah God proceeded to say to the serpent: “Because you have done this thing, you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild beasts of the field. Upon your belly you will go and dust is what you will eat all the days of your life. 15 And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.”

16 To the woman he said: “I shall greatly increase the pain of your pregnancy; in birth pangs you will bring forth children, and your craving will be for your husband, and he will dominate you.”

17 And to Adam he said: “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. 18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”

20 After this Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she had to become the mother of everyone living. 21 And Jehovah God proceeded to make long garments of skin for Adam and for his wife and to clothe them. 22 And Jehovah God went on to say: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take [fruit] also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite,—” 23 With that Jehovah God put him out of the garden of E´den to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. 24 And so he drove the man out and posted at the east of the garden of E´den the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually to guard the way to the tree of life.