Gênesis 3
David Guzik · Citado em PreceptAustin
Gênesis 3
Guzik - The goal of becoming God is the center of so many non-Christian religions, including Mormonism. But in our desire to be gods, we become like Satan (who said, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God … I will be like the Most High [Isaiah 14:13-14]) instead of being like Jesus, who came as a servant (Matthew 20:28). Knows (03045)(yada) means just that, to know, which is the main meaning. Gilbrant comments on Satan's use of yada here - "God "knows" in the sense of having information or facts about reality ahead of the actual occurrence. He is aware of the way things are and are going to be. The serpent implied that God uses this knowledge selfishly against Adam and Eve's best interests. The rest of the Bible shows that in his knowing, God has great loving concern and uses his knowledge for the greatest good of his people (Ex 3:7; Ps 1:6; 103:14). The second use of the verb "to know" in Gen. 3:5 is a reference to Adam and Eve committing an act which brings them the experience of what good and evil are all about. The serpent promised their "eyes will be opened" so they would perceive reality more fully; and they will have arrived at a new understanding and consciousness through personal experience. The sad truth not told by the serpent is that this experience was deadly, while all the knowledge that leads to the greatest enjoyment of God's creation was already available to them in their walk with the Lord.. (The Complete Biblical Library Hebrew-English Dictionary) DON'T BE DECEIVED "ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. - Genesis 3:5 One of Satan’s most effective tactics down through the ages has been deception. He is a master at making things appear what they are not. A mixture of truth and error seems to serve his purposes much better than total error. Donald Grey Barnhouse illustrated this forcefully with the following story: “Duveen, the famous English art connoisseur, took his little daughter to the beach one day, but could not get her to go into the chilly water. After persuasion failed, he borrowed a teakettle, built a fire, and heated a little water until it steamed beautifully. With much flourish, he poured it into the ocean. Greatly impressed, his daughter went in without a murmur.” Barnhouse then made this application: Satan “dilutes an ocean of unbelief with a steaming teakettle of Christian ethics, and people go wading in, self-satisfied, but unaware that they are bathing in unbelief.” The adversary is delighted when a person turns over a new leaf or engages in good works, just as long as he continues to reject the provision of God’s grace in salvation. Somehow the sinner completely ignores the fatal error or not trusting Christ because his life as been tempered with a teakettle of wholesome resolves. The devil in his subtle way Will chloroform your soul, If you don’t quickly turn to Christ, Whose blood can make you whole.- Lyle Satan will flood you with truth to float one lie. Doubting God Read: Genesis 3:1-6 | Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. —James 1:17 When Satan tempted Eve, he did so by enticing her to doubt God’s character. He told Eve, “God knows that in the day you eat of [the forbidden fruit] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:5). Satan was implying, “God has a hidden agenda, and it is an evil one.” The devil knew that once Eve doubted the goodness of God, the temptation would work. We may not think we doubt God. But when events happen in our lives that make us question Him, that’s exactly what we do. We seldom stop believing in Him, but we do stop believing in His goodness. And that is a faith-poisoning idea! John Greenleaf Whittier knew that at the center of trust is a confidence in God’s goodness. He wrote: I see the wrong that round me lies, I feel the guilt within, I hear, with groan and travail cries, The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings: I know that God is good! Never doubt God’s goodness. Even when our trials seem beyond our understanding, we can trust God to give us perfect gifts (Jas. 1:17). Don't put a question mark where God has put a period. Did You Say No? Read: Genesis 3:1-7 | Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. —Genesis 2:17 “Okay, here are the rules,” Marty said. “You can do whatever you want,wherever you want, whenever you want until someone tells you no.” Those were our instructions on our first visit to our friends’ lake house. Marty and his wife, Lynn, who enjoy entertaining, give their guests lots of freedom to enjoy themselves. When we noticed the sailboat next to the paddleboat next to the pontoon boat, we knew we were in for a fun afternoon. Marty told us no only once—when he saw that we were about to feed the swans that swam up next to us. He knew that if the birds were fed once, they would become aggressive if they didn’t get fed the next time. Adam and Eve lived in the most beautiful locale, and they too had lots of freedom. However, when God said no, they resisted (Gen. 3). He told them not to eat from a certain tree, but they thought they knew better. Adam and Eve would have kept good company with a lot of us. Sometimes we can’t understand why our heavenly Father says no. When that happens, He can help us to adjust our thinking. We need to realize that even as He denies us, He’s saying to our hearts, “You can trust Me. I know what is best.” I may not always understand The way that You may lead, But, Lord, in faith I’ll clasp Your hand And trust You for each need. —Dean God may deny our request, but He will never disappoint our trust. God Is Good Read: Genesis 3:1-7 | Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He teaches sinners in the way. —Psalm 25:8 The phrase “God is good, all the time; all the time, God is good” is repeated by many Christians almost like a mantra. I often wonder if they really believe it or even think about what they’re saying. I sometimes doubt God’s goodness—especially when it feels as though God isn’t hearing or answering my prayers. I assume that if others were more honest, they’d admit they feel the same way. The serpent planted a doubt in Eve’s mind about whether God had been good to her and had her best interest at heart. He said, “God knows that in the day you eat of [the fruit] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:5). Satan tried to convince her to believe that God was holding out on her and not giving her something really good—more knowledge. Do you feel as though God isn’t answering your prayers? Are you tempted to doubt His goodness? When I feel this way, I have to remind myself that my circumstances aren’t the barometer of God’s love and goodness—the cross is. He has shown how good He is by giving His only Son Jesus to die for our sin. We can’t rely on our feelings. But day by day as we choose to trust Him more, we learn to believe with confidence that God is good—all the time. When you are tempted to deny God’s goodness, love, and grace, Look to the cross of Calvary, Where Jesus took your place. —Sper Circumstances aren’t the barometer of God’s love and goodness—the cross is. The Big Stink Read: Genesis 3:6-13,22-24 | God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5 In August 2013, large crowds gathered at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to witness the blooming of the tropical plant known as the corpse flower. Since the flower is native to Indonesia, and may flower only once every several years, its blooming is a spectacle. Once open, the huge spiky, beautiful, red bloom smells like rotten meat. Because of its putrid fragrance, the flower attracts flies and beetles that are looking for rotting meat. But there is no nectar. Like the corpse flower, sin holds out promises but in the end offers no rewards. Adam and Eve found this out the hard way. Eden was beautiful until they ruined it by doing the one thing God urged them not to do. Tempted to doubt God’s goodness, they ignored their Creator’s loving warning and soon lost their innocence. The God-given beauty of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil became like a corpse flower to them. The reward for their disobedience was alienation, pain, emptiness, toil, and death. God made us to share in His life & joy. Sin looks inviting and may feel good, but it doesn’t compare with the wonder, beauty, and fragrance of trusting and obeying God, who has made us to share His life and joy. What temptations are you facing today? Remember that God promises to help you fight against temptation. Ask Him to help you remember to rely on Him. God’s commands can overpower Satan’s suggestions. INSIGHT: Today’s passage records the entrance of sin into an innocent world. But it also records God’s grace in response to sin. Rather than let Adam and Eve eat from the tree of life and live forever in their sin, God graciously blocked the way to that tree (vv. 22-23). J.R. Hudberg Norman Geisler - GENESIS 3:5—Is man made like God or does he become like God? PROBLEM: Genesis 1:27 says “God created man in His own image.” But in Genesis 3:22 God said, “the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.” The former seems to affirm that humans are made like God, and the latter appears to assert that he becomes like God. SOLUTION: The two passages are speaking of two different things. Genesis 1 is speaking about a human virtue by creation, while Genesis 3 is referring to what he had by acquisition. The first passage refers to Adam and Eve before the Fall, and the last is referring to them after the Fall. The former refers to their nature and the latter to their state. By creation Adam did not know good and evil. Once he sinned, he knew good and evil. Once these differences are understood, there is no conflict. (Online version - When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties ) Walter Kaiser - Genesis 3:5 Become like God? Was the serpent more honest with Adam and Eve than God was? The serpent had explained God’s prohibition against eating from the fruit of the tree from the motive of divine envy: “you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” What knowledge did the man and woman attain? Some have seen parallels in this passage to the Babylonian flood story, called the Gilgamesh Epic, in which the wild man Enkidu, who is finally civilized by spending six days and seven nights with a prostitute, sees the animals flee from him, and the woman congratulates him: “You are wise, Enkidu. You have become as a god.” But the two sentences from Genesis 3:15 and Gilgamesh are totally different, and Enkidu sheds no light on this passage, contrary to undemonstrated assurances from a number of leading scholars. There are five passages in which the antithetical pair good and evil and the verb to know occur: Deuteronomy 1:39; 2 Samuel 14:17; 19:35; 1 Kings 3:9; and Isaiah 7:15. These passages help to dismiss certain theories that have been proposed. Certainly we cannot say that Adam and Eve attained premature sexual union due to the aphrodisiac qualities of the fruit on these trees. The only argument in favor of this dubious interpretation is the awakening of shame (Gen 3:7) and the punishment on the woman, which was placed in what some construe as the area of her sexuality (Gen 3:16). However, even while the disturbance affected the sexual aspect of personhood, the text makes it clear that the knowledge of good and evil is a divine prerogative (Gen 3:5, 22). The extension of a sexual interpretation to God is obviously grotesque and unwarranted. This would mean that humankind could become like God either by attaining total knowledge or by having autonomy, particularly moral freedom. Such wisdom “to know good and evil” can be seen in 2 Samuel 19:35, where Barzillai as an eighty-year-old man doubts his ability to exhibit the knowledge between good and evil needed from the king’s counselor. Likewise, the woman from Tekoa likened David to an angel who was able to discern good and evil (2 Sam 14:17). Solomon asked that God would also give him “a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong” (1 Kings 3:9). The lure of the serpent, then, did not imply that humanity would have infinite knowledge like God’s knowledge or even that there was some aphrodisiac in the fruit that would open up sexual or carnal relations as an option until then unknown. Instead, the lure of the serpent was an invitation to experience that perpetual quest of human autonomy and freedom. Unfortunately for all, that autonomy turned out to be illusory and actually ended up in a sense of alienation, which has been studied so often since Freud introduced the concept to the modern world. (Go to page 64 in Hard Sayings) Genesis 3:6 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 desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. When the woman saw: Jos 7:21 Jdg 16:1,2 that it was a delight , Eze 24:16,21,25 to the eyes: Ge 6:2 39:7 Jos 7:21 2Sa 11:2 Job 31:1 Mt 5:28 1Jn 2:16 and did: 1Ti 2:14 and he ate: Ge 3:12,17 Ho 6:7 Ro 5:12-19 Genesis 3 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries War on the Word audio by Steven Lawson - excellent exposition of Genesis 3 Related Passage: Genesis 2:9+ Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. THE DANGER OF LOOKING AT FORBIDDEN FRUIT When the woman saw that the tree was good for food - It was physically edible but spiritual poisonous. It might have nourished her body, but it killed her spirit. See cross references for how often our eyes are the member that get us in trouble with temptation. Genesis 39:7 (Potiphar's wife) It came about after these events that his master’s wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.” Joshua 7:21+ (Achan) when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.” Judges 14:1-2+ (Samson) Then Samson went down to Timnah and saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 So he came back and told his father and mother, “I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.” Comment in Jdg 16:21+ - " Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he was a grinder (the job for a mule!!!) in the prison." 2 Samuel 11:2+ (David a man after God's own heart! Acts 13:22+!) Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance. Job 31:1+ “I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin? Matthew 5:28+ but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29+ “If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 1 John 2:16+ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. Here we see the tragic operation of the lust of the flesh (“good for food”), the lust of the eyes ("delight to the eyes”), and the boastful pride of life (“desirable to make one wise”)—see 1 Jn 2:15-17+. It is difficult to commit just a solitary sin! Most sins seem to "self-propagate" or at least that has been my experience. And that it was a delight (taavah) to the eyes - The eyegate was the crucial variable in this "sin equation." (cf Job 31:1+) Had Eve been blind, this would not have occurred but of course that is hypothetical, because the fact is she was not blind and it did occur. Perhaps by way of application we need to be "functionally blind" in the sense that (energized by the Spirit of Jesus) we need to keep our eyes so fixed on Jesus that everything else grows strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace and the luster of the deceptive delectable desirables of this world fades and is lost in the brightness and purity of the glory of Jesus! Lord, each morning enable us by Your Spirit to set our minds on the things above (especially the One above, Jesus) and not on the things of this world which in passing away. In Jesus' Name. Amen. Enticement to evil is often strong, To sin and engage in all that's wrong; But we must resist temptation's plea And yield to the Christ of Calvary. —Fitzhugh Delight means desirable, pleasant. The fruit was not noxious or odious, but delightful to look at. Oh how our fallen flesh still falls prey to this one. Many things in the world are a "delight to the eyes" but they will corrupt and destroy our soul if they are "eaten"! This same word delight is translated "greedy" in Nu 11:4 (See note on Ex 16:13) describing the "greedy desires" of the "rabble" (mixed multitude probably some Egyptians who came out of Egypt with Israel and turned out to have a negative leavening influence on Israel) and what were they greedy for? Meat to eat! Meat is neutral but the memory of meat in Egypt was stirred up by their fallen flesh and the result was "greedy desires." And if you read the rest of the story in Numbers 11:1-35 you will see that these "greedy desires" brought death to many of the Israelites because their greedy desires and dangerous grumbling inflamed the anger of God. Delight led to death in the Garden and death in the desert. Delight needs to be focused properly only on one thing to be a "safe delight" - Delight yourselves in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart (for then your eyes fixed on Jesus will by His Spirit energize desires in your heart like those in the heart of Jesus in Whom you are delighting!). (Ps 37:4 - See study of Delight Yourself in the LORD). And that the tree was desirable to make one wise - Satan succeeds in creating in Eve a lack of satisfaction (and gratitude) with all of the other trees from which one could eat (Ge 2:9+) and focuses her attention on the one tree from which she could not eat. Satan is ever the "counterfeiter!" Satan's way of wisdom is in direct contrast with what God says makes one truly wise - the fear of the LORD! (Pr 1:7+, Pr 9:10, Job 28:28, Ps 111:10) THOUGHT Doesn't this same deceptive ploy work with us today? We have many good things around us (cf Jas 1:17+), but our fallen flesh (and/or the demons) tempt us to focus on the things we don't have or the things others have that our flesh convinces us are better than what we have (aka "coveting" which is tantamount to idolatry - Col 3:5b+). This ever present danger is why the practice of continually giving thanks to God is so powerful! (1Th 5:18+, Eph 5:4b+) To say it another way, an attitude of gratitude is an effective antidote to fight affections for "forbidden fruit!" Are you content with what you have (cf contentment)? If not, rest assured, you are potentially vulnerable to falling for the bait of temptation! NET NOTE - "The quest for wisdom can follow the wrong course, as indeed it does here. No one can become like God by disobeying God. It is that simple. The Book of Proverbs stresses that obtaining wisdom begins with the fear of God that is evidenced through obedience to his word. Here, in seeking wisdom, Eve disobeys God and ends up afraid of God." (NET) Allen Ross - Physical practicality (good for food), aesthetic beauty (pleasing to the eye), and the potential for gaining wisdom—to be "in the know"—these draw a person over the brink once the barrier of punishment is supposedly removed. (See context in The Bible Knowledge Commentary) Henry
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Guzik - We can assume this is God, in the Person of Jesus Christ, appearing to Adam and Eve before His incarnation and birth at Bethlehem, because of God the Father it is said, “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (John 1:18), and no man has ever seen God in the Person of the Father. (1 Timothy 6:16) And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. (Job 31:33 Ho 6:7; Pr 28:13 contrast Ps 32:1): Perfect fellowship, union and communion were instantly broken! And so they hid from His holy presence for they knew that their attempt to cover their sin with itchy, bristly fig leaves was unsuccessful. Young's Literal says "They hid themselves from the face of Jehovah God." We see this same response by the children of Israel when God spoke from Mt Sinai... Deuteronomy 5:25 ‘Now then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, then we will die. Henry
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Guzik - Not only did Eve sin, but she became the agent of temptation for Adam. But when Adam ate, he was not deceived as Eve was. Adam sinned with his eyes wide open, in open rebellion against God. i. Therefore, it is Adam, not Eve, who bears the responsibility for the fall of the human race and for the introduction of death into the created order (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22). Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14)...“Take and eat” will one day become verbs of salvation, but only after Jesus had lived in the world of Adam’s curse and surrendered to death Henry
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Guzik - The way they saw themselves changed, but also the way they saw the entire world was now different. After the fall, everything looked worse. Was it good or bad that Adam and Eve saw their nakedness and felt terrible about it? It was good, because it is good to feel guilty when you have done something wrong. Henry
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Guzik - Their own attempt to cover themselves took much ingenuity, but not much wisdom. Fig leaves are said to have a prickly quality, which would make for some pretty itchy coverings. Every attempt to cover our own nakedness before God is just as foolish. We need to let Jesus cover us (Revelation 3:5, 18), and put on Jesus Himself as our covering garment (Galatians 3:27). The exhortation from Jesus is for us: Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame. (Revelation 16:15) Henry