#genesis 3

02/20/2026

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give Adam [the fruit before offering it to his wife]."

That's the exact way Satan talks!!! It sounds just like how he spoke to Eve in Genesis 3!!

"Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’? ... You will not certainly die... For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." -Genesis 3:1b, 4-5 (NIV)

The devil plants doubt in our minds, asking us if that's really what God said. If he's really giving us everything we need. If he's really good.

"It's not a story they would tell you." ... "It's not a blessing He would give you." Like, bro, hold on a minute--

I've always known Star Wars is one of the most Christian pieces of secular media out there due to its morality (there is real good and there is real evil; killing a person is evil no matter what justification you give it; etc) and many of its themes (Anakin being an almost god-like Chosen One who has no human father, Luke relying on his father to save him, prophecies of good overcoming evil), but for some reason it never really struck me just how much Palpatine is like Satan.

And obviously the Jedi Council aren't God, but the parallels are there-- they've got the highest power and authority in this situation and Anakin is in their care. And Palpatine is tempting Anakin to spurn their judgement. The Council isn't all-powerful or all-knowing or incorruptible, but Palpatine is still exercising his core trait of being a liar and deceiver.

"And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him." -Revelation 12:9 (ESV)

The First Sin and Its Punishment

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’ ” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die, 5 for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when 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 of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” 14 The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

17 And to the man he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

20 The man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living. 21 And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said, “See, the humans have become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now they might reach out their hands and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent them forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which they were taken. 24 He drove out the humans, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life. — Genesis 3 | New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE) New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Genesis 2:8-9; Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 2:25; Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:9; Genesis 4:11; Genesis 8:21; Exodus 20:18; 1 Samuel 15:15; Proverbs 24:31; Isaiah 14:14; Matthew 10:16; Luke 24:27; John 8:44; John 16:21; Romans 5:12; Romans 7:11; Romans 8:20; 1 Corinthians 15:47; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Hebrews 1:7; Hebrews 6:8; Revelation 2:7; Revelation 6:15; Revelation 22:14

The question isn’t new,“If God is good, why do bad things happen?” We ask it when a child gets cancer.When a drunk driver takes a life.When the headlines bleed with violence, corruption, and disaster. But here’s the truth that wrecks our excuses, “Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned…”— Romans 5:12 The problem isn’t…

Genesis 3:16 NIV

“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.”

Even the spacing freaks me out. I don’t want to worship something that wants me to be ruled. I dislike being referred to as an inferior being from the moment I’m created. If God is all-knowing he should have seen how wrong this is,,, but that’s according to today’s standards. Why is God against equality? It doesn’t feel like something to worship.

Genesis 3:15 however also feels freakishly real.

Genesis‬ ‭3‬:‭15‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“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.”

It feels as though it refers to bickering and the disagreements within partners and children. It all sounds so real but I do not like it.

Don’t you just have to agree that God created and gave himself for our “sins”. Do I actually have to support him?

'Ye shall be as gods'

What is up with that serpent in Genesis? The narrator tells us it is a wild animal like any other made by God, but "more crafty." And then it starts talking – and somehow it knows more about the Tree of Knowledge than God had revealed to Eve and Adam. "When you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil,” the serpent says.

there is a sacred pause

in the inhale and silence

a lingering hallelujah

a fading amen

how are you anyway?

looking away for an answer

bitten by the words welling up

behind a throat

so this is what it means