So of course Genesis 1 starts out with the creation story, which is terribly fascinating and thought provoking if really read carefully. As the Bible presents it, it does take a certain amount of blind faith to believe it as the Lord didn't really leave enough details on the surface to be able to wrap your head around it. I jotted down lots of notes about my questions, but for the sake of not having the time to write a novel, I will just jump straight over to the first sin. You know, God created earth for His pleasure...and day after day, He said "this is good." The Lord called it GOOD! So you know it was pretty darn awesome! He created companions in His image in the form of man and He walked and talked with man and woman day after day. Then Satan entered the picture, which obviously the Lord knew was going to happen, and man chose to sin. All over the Bible, CRAZY things happen that are presented fairly non-emotionally...but can you even imagine the immense amount of emotion & drama that occurred in the spiritual realm!…way more dramatic than the Bible presents. You know Satan’s army was rejoicing as they thought they had conquered Christ's deepest love and God probably wasn’t surprised but yet I’m sure he was gravely sad, disappointed, and heartbroken. Of course he had an eternal plan to redeem the sin, but His love connection was broken due to a choice.
Quickly does the sin trickle into mankind as Adam & Eve's first kiddos (Cain & Abel) ended up being bitter enemies. Cain became incredibly jealous of Abel and started plotting against his bro. I find it fascinating that in the 2nd generation of mankind and in the 4th chapter of the entire Bible, God was already counseling humans on what to do with sin as he admonishes Cain on how to deal with his negative thoughts... “And why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.” – interesting verse…never really read that one before! The Lord tells us to master sin so do (or choose) well. As the story ends, Cain ends up being defeated by the sin crouching at his door and he killed his own brother, Abel. Soon after, he bitterly regretted it as absolutely nothing good came from his choice...only heartache.
Of course we are oftentimes hopeless without His help, but this is an age old concept that is still relevant today....master sin and choose. "Go & sin no more!"
OK, now the fun ah ha of the day (this is for all the new moms in my life these days)....OK, so Adam & Eve were created (did they have belly buttons since they never had an umbilical cord....hmmmm?) Then they had to leave the Garden of Eden after Satan did His thing. So they are living out wherever they were and apparently they had discovered "love" by then. So Eve gets pregnant...except how the heck was she supposed to know what "pregnant" meant?? Unless Jesus told them about babies and how they were made while they were walking & talking, this was a whole new concept to Eve! Can you imagine not knowing about the concept of pregnancy and then being pregnant?? Having no idea that a human was growing inside of you, you’d for sure think you were getting fat or about to die from some expanding abdominal issue. Until you felt a kick?? Whoa!! What the heck was that? Then, you start feeling major pains and this thing comes out of you that kind of looks like you and Adam, but not really…jiminy Christmas! What a strange concept haha. Poor Eve...we women think we have it hard nowadays. Kudos to Eve...the first Mommy.
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