Genesis 3:1 - 4:26 Psalm 2: 1-6 Proverbs 1: 8,9 Matthew 2: 1-23

"She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate"

God divided the being that he had made in his image into a separate male and female who we can now call Adam and Eve. Adam keeps the mind of the first created being who I have called 'Of the earth' and knows God's command, which he has also told Eve. Here he stands beside her knowing what God has said but not intervening. In fact, the opposite: he accepts the fruit that Eve gives him and eats it. God had said in the day that you eat of it, "dying thou dost die"

Already the charge that God gave is changed slightly by Eve, " Ye do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest ye die' , the serpent is more accurate but negates it: " Dying ye do not die"

What does this mean for us? Firstly, men and women are to be counterp ...