But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" And he said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid."GENESIS 3:9-10+God Is Not SilentI urge you with all diligen...  Read More

They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves.GENESIS 3:8+The Growth of SinIt is worthwhile to note how sin gradually grows...  Read More

And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you ...  Read More

He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"GENESIS 3:1+A Sure Guide for FaithThe serpent directs its attack at God's good will and makes it its busines...  Read More

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast.GENESIS 3:1+That the Godly PrevailIt pleased the Lord that Adam should be tempted and should test his powers. So it still is today. When we have be...  Read More

The man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh."GENESIS 2:23+Bones and FleshIt is most worthy of wonder that when Adam looks at Eve as a building made from himself, he immediate...  Read More

Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."GENESIS 2:18+No Longer AloneGod makes a husband of lonely Adam and joins him to a wife, who ...  Read More

"In the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."GENESIS 2:17+Spiritual DisasterOriginal sin really means that human nature has completely fallen; that the intellect has become darkened, so that w...  Read More

The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat."GENESIS 2:16-17+Worship in a Purer FormIt ...  Read More

The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.GENESIS 2:9+The Tree in the Midst of the GardenWhen Adam had been created in such a way that he was, as ...  Read More

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy.GENESIS 2:3+Why We Have the SabbathIt is also shown here that man was especially created for the knowledge and worship of God; for the Sabbath was not orda...  Read More

And on the seventh day God finished His work that He had done, and He rested.GENESIS 2:2+God Rested?[This passage] does not denote that God gave up preserving and governing the heaven and the earth wh...  Read More