I put this video together to show my process of working through the text and making observations there, and to demonstrate how the text is connected back to Genesis 1 and 2 through repetitions of words and themes. That’s the canonical approach, looking for those recursions or patterns in the narratives that keep being threaded throughout.
So let’s get into the text! We’re specifically looking at comparing and contrasting the speeches of the serpent and of Eve to what God’s speeches were in Genesis 1 and 2. Even more to the point, we’re going to compare what God actually said to what the serpent and Eve say that He said.
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God teaches us one of the major doctrines of the Bible through story. The doctrine of the entrance of sin and death into the human race is shown to us in story of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:1-7. So—if we as Bible readers are taught one of the major doctrines of the Scripture—the entrance of sin and death into the human race, barred from God’s presence--by means of a story, should we also not expect to see the tragic effects of sin and death reversed by means of a follow-up story? Is there such a story in the New Testament of the curse in reverse? When we approach the Bible canonically, that story comes to light almost as a Xerox copy of Genesis 3. Have a look.
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