Genesis 3: The Fall of Man, Sin and the Seed of the Woman

Genesis 3 tells us the Garden of Eden story, where the Fall of Man takes place.

We’re told at the onset of the chapter that a Serpent deceives the woman that was formed from man in chapter 2, into believing that she would not surely die by eating of the forbidden fruit that God had told Adam to avoid. She and the man then disobeyed God and ate of it. And this disobedience to God is understood to be sin.

As a result of this sin, they saw their nakedness and were ashamed, and they were sent forth from the Garden and blocked from returning to it.

It is widely understood because of the religious teachings of men that due to this action, mankind somehow became corrupt in his DNA makeup. The generally accepted idea is that man went from being sinless in nature to becoming sinful in nature. Thereby, every offspring produced going forward is innately sinful.

But is that what Genesis 3 is saying?

I address this notion in Did the Creator’s Design Change After the Fall of Man? And the short answer to both of these questions is “no”.

Furthermore, sin is not a human trait. Rather sin is a misbehavior.

I also address this faulty notion of Adam’s sin somehow genetically affecting the rest of mankind in For all have Sinned.

The Seed of the Woman

Following the disobedience of Adam & Eve, it was clear that the Serpent was an adversary to them. The story reveals that there would also be an adversarial relationship between the Serpent’s seed and the seed of the Woman. But the seed of the woman will have the upper hand.

According to Genesis 3:15, God said to the Serpent, And I will put enmity…between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.