1) What lies did the Serpent tell the woman about what God had said? (Genesis 3:3-4)

The Serpent questioned what God said. He lied about the punishment God said. He lied about what would happen to the man and woman if they disobeyed God.

2) Why did the woman take the fruit and eat it? Who else was there and ate with her? (Genesis 3:5-6)

She saw that the fruit was good to eat, pleasing to look at, and would give her a new kind of wisdom, she took it. The man was with her the whole time and did the same thing with her.

3) What did they realize right after they disobeyed God’s command to them? What was different?(Genesis 3:7-11)

Their eyes were opened, but not in the way they had thought. Instead of becoming more like God, they became less like him because they had done something evil. In this, they realized they were not wearing clothes, and were open and exposed.

4) Whose fault was it that they sinned against God? Who did they try to blame? (Genesis 3:12-13)

The Bible clearly says that Adam was the one whose fault it ultimately was. They tried to place the blame on someone or something else. The woman blamed the Serpent, the man blamed the woman, and more specifically blamed God.

5) What was their punishment for sinning against God? (Genesis 3:14-19)

The Serpent itself was cursed, and cursed all the days of its life. The Serpent’s offspring and the woman’s offspring would be in constant battle, but someone from the offspring from the woman would one day give a deadly blow to the Serpent. This is the first promise of the future Messiah.

The ability to do what God designed the man and woman to do would now be hard. Before, it would have been something that only brought joy, now the roles God gave in Genesis 1-2 would be difficult. All the world was now affected by man’s sin.

6) What does God provide for Adam and Eve? How do we see his grace to them?

God provides them with clothing made from animal skins. This meant that blood was shed to cover them. This is part of God’s grace. God kept them from eating from the tree of life and banished them from the garden, putting cherubim to guard the entrance to the Garden of Eden. In all of this, God made sure they were covered, they would be able to one day be redeemed, and God always makes good on his promises. Adam believed this and that’s why he renamed his wife, Eve.

7) How do we see this story give us hope in Jesus to come?

Even though Adam had just brought death into the world by sinning, the one promised in Genesis 3:15 would reverse everything that was just lost. This passage tells us so much about why this world is the way that it is, and why we are the way we are. In all this, God promised to send the snake crusher, that would one day save us from our sins, defeat the serpent and death, and will one day bring us back into Eden in the New Heavens and the New Earth.