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

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.GENESIS 1:27+A World in MiniatureIn the remaining creatures God is recognized as by His footpri...  Read More

"Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness."GENESIS 1:26+In the Image of GodThe Gospel brings it about that we are formed once more according to that familiar and indeed better image, because w...  Read More

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness."GENESIS 1:26+By God's Special PlanMoses employs a new expression. He does not say: "Let the sea be set in motion," "Let the earth brin...  Read More

And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind."GENESIS 1:11+A Splendid HomeI prefer that we ref...  Read More