You and all Christian's are mistaken.
Sin appears a little later in
Genesis 4:
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
The fall Christian's refer to is not where original sin began, as you'll find in
Genesis 3:
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
(A curse came on them, that's all)
Sin was already in the world but there was no law until God told Adam not to eat.
They (Adam) "coveted" the fruit.
Paul talks about this.
Romans chapter 7.
God told Adam not to eat... by not eating he would live.
But because the "law" said thou shalt not eat, it brought out covetousness that was already in them.
Like drawing out a thorn.
So the law that was to lead them to life, the commandment, led to death.
Everything you want to know about Genesis is in the New Testament.
Because history repeats itself.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
God IS Light.
And the was without form and void, and "DARKNESS" covered the face of the deep.
You can find this "void" in Jeremiah.
Jer 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo,
it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they
had no light.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Waters:
Rev 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Jhn 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Jhn 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Jhn 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Jhn 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Jer 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo,
it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they
had no light.
Jer 4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jer 4:25 I beheld, and, lo,
there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Jer 4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place
was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD,
and by his fierce anger.
Jer 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Jer 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken
it, I have purposed
it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Jer 4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city
shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Jer 4:30 And
when thou
art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair;
thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Jer 4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail,
and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion,
that bewaileth herself,
that spreadeth her hands,
saying, Woe
is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Adam was created from the dust of the earth. Placed in eden. Sinned and returned to the earth from which he came.
There is a difference bewteen man and beasts. And it's not about 4 legged animals. It's about character.
As in the days of Noah...
God never changes.
Man is hell bent on destruction from the beginning. Our purpose is to learn and grow and prosper and become one with our creator.
But we fail often. And in times, God comes and lifts us back up and we begin again.
Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Do you read the Bible?
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