Episode 94: Genesis 3:1–19, “Did God Really Say?” We’re back in Genesis 3 for the Fall. The serpent opens with the same question the world still asks Christians: “Did God really say?” We go through Eve adding to God’s command, Satan’s lie that “you will be like God,” and Adam standing right there and saying nothing. Then come the hiding, the blame-shifting, and God’s curses on the serpent, the woman, Adam and the ground. Through all of it God gives the first promise of a Savior (Genesis 3:15), the Seed who will crush the serpent’s head. We also cover why every part of the Bible is God’s Word, not just the red letters, how to test what you read against Scripture, and why sin is a twisting of what God made good. Full Summary Recap: where Genesis 3 begins Genesis 1–2 describe creation. Genesis 2 zooms in on Adam and on Eve, who was made from Adam’s rib to be his helper and companion. Genesis 3 opens with the serpent, “more subtil than any beast of the field,” asking the woman, “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 3:1). That question should sound familiar to Christians today. “Did God really say?” and “Is that really what it meant?” are still the openings used to raise doubt about Scripture, whether through “that was just the culture back then” or by twisting the Greek and Hebrew. Our answer is that God doesn’t change (Hebrews 13:8) and that not one jot or tittle of His Word will pass away (Matthew 5:18). Adding to God’s Word (Genesis 3:2–3) Eve leaves out the word freely and adds “neither shall ye touch it,” which God never said. We compare this to the Pharisees, who built layers of oral tradition around the Law of Moses. Jesus called those layers the “traditions of men” (Mark 7:8–13; Matthew 15:1–9), and they kept people out of the Kingdom (Matthew 23:13). Churches can do the same thing when they set up man-made “guardrails” and treat them as tests of salvation or of spiritual maturity. The gospel is Jesus plus nothing. Some related points from the conversation: The church is the people, not the building. Each believer is a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19), and God inhabits the praises of His people (Psalm 22:3). A spilled drink or a crayon mark on the wall is a sign the church is alive.Manufactured worship. Some worship bands are trained to engineer a feeling of God’s presence with build-ups, lights and smoke. If you have to make people feel that God is there, something has already gone wrong.“That doctrine is only 150 years old.” One example is the claim that the rapture was invented by John Nelson Darby. The teaching comes from 1 Corinthians 15:51–52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13–17. We have manuscript evidence for Scripture reaching back nearly 2,000 years.The “red letters only” error. All Scripture is God-breathed (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20–21). That includes Paul and Peter, and also the Gospel writers who recorded the red letters, as the Holy Spirit brought things to their remembrance (John 14:26). Know your Bible We encourage young people to study Scripture for themselves and to “show thyself approved unto God… rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15). The memorization programs many of us grew up with (AWANA, RAs and GAs) hid God’s Word in our hearts in a way that lasts (Psalm 119:11). Good teachers like Charles Stanley, Adrian Rogers and J. Vernon McGee can point you in the right direction. With any book about the Bible, check the passages it cites, read the surrounding context, and see whether they actually say what the author claims. “Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4–5) Satan contradicts God directly. We talk about how much Satan knew. He knew God does not lie, and he seems to have known a Redeemer would come, which is why he has been chasing the promised Seed through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David and Israel, and why he still hates the Jewish people today. We also suggest jealousy as a motive: God formed humans with His own hands and made them in His image. Satan and his angels are not all-knowing. Their view of the future is limited. We use the slave girl with a spirit of divination in Acts 16:16–18 to show this. Her fortune-telling was a moneymaker with short-range predictions, and it ended when Paul cast the spirit out. Modern psychics are the same kind of thing, and missionaries still tell of people coming out of the occult and leaving those “abilities” behind. The temptation itself is “ye shall be as gods,” with the hint that God is holding something back. We point out that the same lie, that a person can become a god, shows up in some modern religions. Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44). He comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10), and he seeks whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). The fall (Genesis 3:6) Eve reasons her way into sin: the fruit is good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and able to make her ...
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