Word: The First Sin

"By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from the dust and to dust you will return." Genesis 3:19

Shortly following the creation of the world and God's marvellous Garden of Eden, things turned grim. In Genesis 3, Eve was persuaded by the serpent (a manifestation of Satan) to ignore God's command and to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (ironically, it did not tell her to eat from the Tree of Life). Having been persuaded by the serpent, Eve urged Adam to eat from the tree, claiming that it was alright to eat from it. God soon found out that they had both ate from the tree and was disappointed at their disobedience. God responded by issuing just punishment to the three that were involved. The serpent was cursed with crawling on its belly and in the dust for all time. It would also be cursed with striking man while man would strike back at it on its head. Eve was cursed with having to bear the pain of the pregnancy (as well as spreading the curse of sin to all of her offspring). Adam was cursed with having to toil the land for work and for food. Instead of having everything handed to him, as it was set in the Garden of Eden, he would have to work for the food. The ultimate punishment, nonetheless, was that sin and death were to enter the world (as indicated through the Tree being of knowledge of good and evil, people being made from the dust and having to return to the dust, as God said).