Happy Monday

 January 05, 2026

Perspective 

The mother sees more than just a pair of shoes on sale. She sees a bigger picture. She is thinking about the other bills as well as her budget. 

The boy sees the sale. His feelings and emotions want them. It is based only on what he wants. He only thinks about himself. Theres no bigger picture.

Objective perspective is: The ability to see things clearly and fairly, often meaning stepping outside your usual viewpoint to see the bigger picture. 

In Genesis Moses provides a big picture. 

 Is the writing consistent. Yes. Is it consistent with the New Testament as well as history. 

Genesis 3 

The point of view changes ( God is not physically present; Moses once again  gives an account he is not telling a story. He is giving us an account of the things he saw or what God said to him. ( consistent with revelations). The language is as follows; "The serpent said." "The woman said."

New International Version Bible ( Some language might differ in King James)

The Fall

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

He doesn't directly say to her eat the fruit. He kind of points it out to her. He puts her focus on it. (The wording he uses is slick). 

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

Eve understood the instructions of the Lord. She even said she should not touch it.

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

To be like God doesn't sound like a bad thing. But they were already like God. 

*****just keeping with the language it seems that Eve thought it was something you could not eat. Or that it was bad food. She doesn't seem to know the deeper understanding of what the fruit actually was. Is she wrong? Yes. Because God said don't touch it. God doesn't always tell us the why? He just give the command. It is after you do something you learn all the horrible consequences. If we knew better we would never do the things God said not to do. Eve and Adam was the frist of creation to sin. 

IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT WHEN JESUS SAYS, "FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO."

He comes to help us and tell us truth. 

TNEY KNOW NOT THE TRUTH. (KING JAMES LANGUAGE)

Do you believe the devil has set us up. Watched us. Like prey he wants to destroy us? 

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

That was the wrong wisdom. Their eyes were open. What does that mean?  They know things. As a baby you had no clue about pain until you get older and keep learning. Their eyes see things differently. 

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.

It seems they had a natural relationship with God with nothing to fear. But after they eat the fruit the run away from God. It seems like the more we do the further we get from God. 

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

She didn't completely understand the reason why she should not eat it. The serpent didn't tell the complete truth. He said you won't die. 

It must be okay to say she was thinking it was just food you couldn't eat but she realized it was edible. But the serpent knew the truth about the fruit. 

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

The serpent let the devil use him. He was cursed. The devil today still uses people and it is one way to be cursed. Let the devil use you to bring someone else down. God does not support that.

“Cursed are you above all livestock

    and all wild animals!

You will crawl on your belly

    and you will eat dust

    all the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity

    between you and the woman,

    and between your offspring and hers;

he will crush your head,

    and you will strike his heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;

    with painful labor you will give birth to children.

Your desire will be for your husband,

    and he will rule over you.

The man rules

The man ruling over the woman. 

Two great women have lost elections.  I think it's hard for some to see a woman in office. 

Your husband  ruling over a woman was a punishment. Just maybe they were equal with no issues. But Eve sinned and God told her what life would be like for her. (Is this consistent with our modern day society) Yes. It was not the original plan. But good men don't treat women like SLAVES. Or like they are nothing. 

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

1. Do men today listen to women? No. It's something in them. Is the words of the bible true. They must be. A mature man might listen. But a normal guy doesn't like orders from a woman. 

2. Adam took and ate after the woman. 

3. The problem was he listened to his wife instead of God. 

“Cursed is the ground because of you;

    through painful toil you will eat food from it

    all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

    and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow

    you will eat your food.                      (Free food then) (We purchase our food)

until you return to the ground,

    since from it you were taken;

for dust you are

    and to dust you will return.”

20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Have a blessed day!