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GENESIS – LESSON TWO
I. MAN’S FALL IN SIN (3:1-
A. The Serpent Beguiles Eve (v.1-
1. Serpent questions God’s word – “yea, hath God said…?”
2. Serpent lies, contradicting God’s word – “ye shall not surely die.”
3. Serpent accuses God before Eve – “God doth know…ye shall be as God”
B. Eve and Adam Give in to Temptation and Consequently Sin (v.6-
1. Avenues of Temptation:
a. Saw tree as good for food
b. Saw tree as delight to eyes
c. Saw tree as to be desired to make one wise
2. Eve gives forbidden fruit to Adam-
3. Adam and Eve make aprons of fig leaves.
4. Adam and Eve try to hide from God due to their nakedness.
5. Adam and Eve give reasons for their disobedience.
C. Consequences of Sin – God’s pronouncements (v.14-
1. The Serpent – Cursed above all cattle and beast of field; must go on belly, eat dust, enmity between seed of woman and own seed – will bruise heal of woman’s seed.
2. The Woman – Pain in conception multiplied; desire to her husband; husband will rule over her, her seed will bruise head of seed of serpent.
3. The Man – Sorrowful toil with sweat will work a cursed ground in order to eat herbs and bread; will return to dust from which he was made.
4. Physical Death – Adam and Eve driven from the garden of Eden and the tree of life.
QUESTIONS:
1. What three facts characterize the serpent in the garden?
2. Do the Scriptures allow for the possibility that the serpent in Genesis 3 is merely a “literary device” making it a “serpent motif” by “borrowing imagery from the mythological culture of that day regarding a cosmological foe of Deity”?
3. How does the serpent tear down any resistance of Eve in not disobeying God?
4. How did Eve look at the forbidden fruit that tempted her to eat of the forbidden tree?
5. How are we tempted today to sin?
6. What did Eve do with the fruit from the forbidden tree after she ate of the tree?
7. What moved Adam and Eve to make aprons of fig leaves?
8. Why did Adam and Eve try to hide from God?
9. Why does the Omniscient God ask Adam and Eve, “Where art thou”?
10. Did Adam and Eve give “true reasons” or “flimsy excuses” for their sin?
11. How was the serpent “cursed”?
12. How was God’s statement to the serpent, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heal.” fulfilled.
13. Was childbirth one of the consequences of Eve sinning?
14. Explain the meaning of God’s statement to the woman, “thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over you”?
15. What was cursed as consequence of man’s sin and how would this affect man?
16. Why did Adam call his wife “Eve”?
17. Why did God make coats of skins for Adam and Eve?
18. How do the events in Genesis 3 help us deal properly and godly with the subject of “nakedness”?
19. When did the consequence “the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” occur?
20. What was God’s motive for driving man out of the garden of Eden?
21. How did God guard the tree of life in the garden of Eden?
GENESIS – LESSON THREE
I. THE GENERATIONS UP TO THE FLOOD (4:1-
A. Cain and Abel born to union of Adam and Eve – Offerings and Fratricide (4:1-
1. Cain – Name: “gotten a man with Jehovah”
a. Tiller of ground
b. Does not bring acceptable offering to Jehovah
2. Abel -
a. Keeper of sheep
b. Offers pleasing offering of firstlings of flock with fat to Jehovah
3. Cain refuses penetrating reasoning of Jehovah and kills Abel – I Jn. 3:12
B. The Way of Cain – Consequences of His Sin (4:9-
1. Cursed from the ground – made a wanderer
2. A sign appointed for Cain – vengeance taken seven-
3. Dwells in land of “Nod” (Wandering) – East of Eden.
C. Descendants of Cain (4:16-
1. Enoch – Cain builds city named after Enoch
2. Irad
3. Mehujael
4. Methushael
5. Lamech: two wives: Adah and Zilah
a. Jabel of Adah – dwellers in tents and had cattle
b. Jubal of Adah – handle the harp and pipe
c. Tubal-
D. Seth born to union of Adam and Eve (4:25-
1. Seth appointed another seed in the stead of Abel.
2. Enosh born to Seth – men begin to call upon the name of Jehovah.
E. Genealogy of ten Patriarchs from Adam to Noah (5:1-
1. Adam – lived 930 years and died.
2. Seth – lived 912 years and died.
3. Enosh – lived 905 years and died.
4. Kenan – lived 910 years and died.
5. Mahalalel – lived 895 years and died.
6. Jared – lived 962 years and died
7. Enoch – lived 365 years and did not die – taken by God alive-
8. Methuselah – lived 969 years and died.
9. Lamech – lived 777 years and died.
10. Noah – at age of 500 had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
QUESTIONS:
1. Why is the understanding of the meaning of “knew” in Gen. 4:1,17,25 important in the modern debate among religious people over homosexuality?
2. Why did God have respect for Abel’s offering? Why did God not have respect for Cain’s offering?
3. What does God’s penetrating questions to Cain teach us about our personal responsibility regarding sin and happiness?
4. Why did Cain kill his brother?
5. Describe Cain’s attitude behind his words, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
6. What was the consequence to Cain for his sin of murdering his brother?
7. Was there a “mark” placed on Cain to keep him from being killed?
8. What is the origin for Cain’s wife?
9. How do Cain and his descendants manifest that there was not a long period of time called the “Stone Age”?
10. What kind of person was Lamech, the descendant from Cain?
11. Explain what men begin to do at the time of Enosh?
12. Is the doctrine of “inheriting the original sin” proven by the distinction of man being created in the likeness of God beginning with Adam (Gen. 5:1) and then his offspring being created in Adam’s own likeness (Gen. 5:3)?
13. What three facts do you learn by reading the genealogical record of Adam and Seth?
14. What kind of person was Enoch? What happened to him?
15. Who probably died in the flood:
(a). Jared?
(b). Methuselah?
( c). Lamech?
16. Why did Lamech name his son, “Noah”?
17. What is important about the “book of the generations of Adam” revealed in Genesis 5?