Genesis: Week 1 (Southaven)

God created everything good. In the Garden Adam and Eve had perfect connection to God. Two trees stood in the garden—the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Life was offered to them, but the God told them to refrain from the other tree. They were never meant to have that knowledge—they were meant to rely on God. At some unknown point, a created being rebelled against God and entered the garden in the form of a servant to pull Adam and Eve away from the perfect connection that they shared with God and one another. Eve was deceived by the serpent and Adam willfully chose to disobey. They believed that there was something better than God’s offer, and their rejection of God in this moment continues to ripple throughout all generations.