Posts tagged Genesis 3
Are Women More Gullible than Men?
Are Women More Gullible than Men?

Are women more prone to be led astray than men? Is your mother more gullible than your father? Are the women in your family—mum, sisters, grandmothers, aunts--more liable to deception than the men? Are your sisters more prone to be deceived by Satan than your brothers?

 Was Margaret Thatcher more easily led astray by Satan than her husband Dennis? Is President’s Biden’s wife more gullible than he is? Is Amy Coney Barret, Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, more easily led astray by untruths than her husband?

 We can push the issue to its logical conclusion and ask: If women are more liable to be deceived by lies, are women intellectually and ontologically inferior to men?

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Tim Cole1 Timothy 2:11-15, women, deceive, serpent, women deceived by the serpent, Genesis 3, Gullible, led astray
How Covid-19 Helps Us Understand the True Nature of Sin
How Covid-19 Helps Us Understand the True Nature of Sin

Teaching children, disciples, or students about the doctrine of original sin and its entrance into the human race can prove to be a challenge. Sin has been defined as “missing the mark,” a rather innocuous way of describing a phenomenon so lethal that it brings death to the entire human race. But Covid-19 turns our attention to an ancient analogy provided long ago in Scripture. We’ve overlooked it. But a fresh examination of this ancient analogy will help us understand the deadly nature of sin and prepare us for Jesus Christ.

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Tim ColeOriginal sin, Genesis 3, Skin Diseases, Covid-19, The Genesis Flood, The nature of Sin, Cain, quarantine, washing with water, Baptism, 1 Peter 3, Leviticus 12, corona virus, water
The Source of All Our Problems
The Source of All Our Problems

The source of humanity’s problems can be traced throughout Scripture. It’s a unifying theme from a canonical standpoint. Like every other major theme in Scripture, that problem began in Genesis 1-3. But it didn’t stop there. The remainder of the Bible tracts men and women whose lives betray the same failure. The origin of all our problems.

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Tim ColeThe Voice of the Lord, Genesis 3, Samuel the Prophet, King Saul, Abraham, The Source of Problems, Adam, Luke 9:35, Blackbirds