The story of Genesis tells us how the world was created.
Genesis 1 – The Days of creation
Genesis 2 – Adam and Eve
Genesis 3 – Original Sin and the Fall
Straight away the Bible explains why God’s perfect creation was ruined. How humans let bad things into the world.
So when atheists use the problem of evil as an argument God doesn’t exist the immediate Christian response is that God didn’t create a world with evil in – we let it in by making a very bad decision.
TASK – Watch the video’s below and then write your own story board or bullet point list over what happens in Genesis 3
O – Opposite
What happened was the opposite of God’s command
R – Reminder of Responsibility
The story is in Genesis as a reminder we all share responsibility. It was not God who caused evil and suffering but it was human kind that caused it.
I – 1st
This is the 1st time man goes against God. It is the first sin. The original sin
G – Genesis 3
Book in the Bible where the story is form
I – Ignore
We all now can doubt God and have a little piece of our mind that goes against God because of this time we ignored God. It is why we now doubt.
N – Not God’s Plan
It was not God’s plan for Adam and Eve to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. He explicitly did not want it to happen. He specifically said not to.
A – Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve decided to eat the forbidden fruit going against God’s wishes
L – Lets evil into the world
Lets Natural Evil (hurricanes and earthquakes) and Man Made/Moral Evil into the world
S – Snake
The snake tempts Eve by telling her to eat the fruit. This shows how we must resist temptation to do bad things.
I – In the Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden was the perfect world God created for us. Even in this perfect world humans still made a poor decision resulting in evil coming in to the world.
N – kNowledge
Adam and Eve gained knowledge from eating the fruit. They realised they were naked and felt shame. The covered themselves with branches.
TASK – MEMORISE THE ACROSTIC MEMORY DEVICE ABOVE. LEARNING AND REMEMBERING WHAT EACH LETTER STANDS FOR.
TEST YOURSELF – WRITE OUT EACH LETTER IN ORIGINAL SIN DOWN THE SIDE OF A SHEET OF PAPER AND TRY TO FILL IT IN. KEEP GOING UNTIL YOU REMEMBER THEM ALL
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