The Fall of Man

The first disobedience, its cost, and the first promise of a remedy.

Gen 3:1-7

1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

See also: Against Celsus, Book IV 36:1, Against Celsus, Book IV 39:1

2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

See also: Psalms 58:4

3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

See also: The Revelation of Moses (Life of Adam and Eve) 1:11, Genesis 2:16-17

4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

See also: John 8:44, 2 Corinthians 11:3

5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

See also: The Revelation of Moses (Life of Adam and Eve) 1:11, Ezekiel 28:2

6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

See also: The Revelation of Moses (Life of Adam and Eve) 1:11, 3 Baruch (Greek Apocalypse of Baruch) 4:1

7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

See also: Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 40a, Genesis 2:25

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Gen 3:15

15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

See also: Romans 16:20, The Book of the Bee 16:2

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Rom 5:12

12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

See also: 2 Baruch 23:4, 1 Corinthians 15:21-22

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1 Cor 15:22

22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

See also: Romans 8:1, Romans 5:12-21

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