The Fall: Forgetting Who We Are
The Fall is not only the story of disobedience. It is the story of believing a lie about God and reaching for an identity humanity already possessed.
Scripture
Genesis 3:4–10
World English Bible (Public Domain)4The serpent said to the woman, ‘You won’t really die,’
5‘for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’
6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
7Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
8They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
9Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’
10The man said, ‘I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.’
Which false belief about yourself has been hardest to release?
The first lie
The serpent begins by creating distrust: “Did God really say?” Then it offers humanity the promise of becoming like God, even though humanity already bears God’s image.
The temptation is not only disobedience. It is forgetting what has already been given.
The Fall is not only the story of disobedience. It is the story of believing a lie about God and reaching for an identity humanity already possessed.
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