Bible Stories for Adults

God Promises a Savior

Genesis 2:4 - 3:24

Next Week - God Makes a Covenant with Noah (Genesis 8:15-9:17; 1 Peter 3:20-21)
Bible Words to Remember:
He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel. Genesis 3:15

What do the first few words of Genesis tell us?
Genesis 1:1

What is the literary style of Genesis 1:1 - 2:3?
What is the message of each verse part?
- "And God said"
- "Let there be"
- "And it was so"
- Particulars are restated
- God gives names or blessings
- "And God saw that it was good"
- "And there was evening and there was morning"

How do days 1-3 correspond to days 4-6?



Forming from Chaos		Filling the Empty
1		4
2		5
3		6


What does this pattern say about God and His creation?
Ephesians 1:11

Was man just one of the animals that God decided to "Let there be"?
Genesis 1:26
What does it mean to be created in God's image?
Ephesians 4:24
How did God feel about His creation after it was finished?
Genesis 1:31

What literary style takes over after the prologue poem?
Genesis 2:4a
When does Chapter 2 take place?
Genesis 2:4b-7
Does Chapter 2 belong more with Chapter 1 or Chapter 3?

What did God do even before creating man that showed His tremendous love for man?
Genesis 2:8
Why did God create the Garden of Eden?
Genesis 2:9
Where was the Garden of Eden?
Genesis 2:10-14

Was this man that God created supposed to just sit back and delight in what God gave him?
Genesis 1:28; 2:15
Was this man given "free rein" over what he did in God's Garden and how he did it?
Genesis 2:16-17

What did God already realize that this man had to learn?
Genesis 2:18
How did God show this to the man?
Genesis 2:19-20

Did God create this helper for man by speaking a command or forming dirt?
Genesis 2:21-22
What was significant about the way God created this helper?
Genesis 2:23-24

What does Adam's acceptance of this new helper remind those of us who are married?
Ephesians 5:28
Are married couples truly considered as one flesh?
Matthew 19:3-6 (1 Cor 6:15-17)

What can we learn about man's original nature and character?
Genesis 1:27
Genesis 2:7
Genesis 2:25

How did Satan cleverly try to change man's perfect obedience to God?
Genesis 3:1
Did Adam and the woman clearly understand their freedom within limits?
Genesis 3:2-3
How did Satan play on the woman's mistake and then lie to push her to sin?
Genesis 3:4-5
How much more tempting did Satan need to do before the man and woman sinned?
Genesis 3:6

Had this sin made them more God-like in knowing good and evil?
Genesis 3:7
What is the problem with learning about good and evil from a sin perspective?
John 8:34

Is it a sin to be tempted?
1 Corinthians 10:13
Then what is wrong about temptation?
Matthew 26:41

Is it possible to stand up to strong temptations?
Matthew 4:1
Adam saw that the tree was good for food and gave in to his desires. Did the second Adam?
Matthew 4:2-4
Adam felt the fruit would give him wisdom and fed his pride to show off. Did the second Adam?
Matthew 4:5-7
Adam found the fruit pleasing to the eye and took what he saw. Did the second Adam?
Matthew 4:8-10
Angels kept Adam from God's Garden. How were angels used with the second Adam?
Matthew 4:11

Were Adam and the woman proud of their new-found knowledge of good & evil?
Genesis 3:8
Did they readily confess their sin?
Genesis 3:9-10
How did the humans react when faced with the facts?
Genesis 3:11-13

How did God curse the serpent for being the form that Satan used to tempt the humans?
Genesis 3:14
How did God continue cursing the serpent that also cursed Satan, but blessed the humans?
Genesis 3:15
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.
What curses did God give the woman for falling into Satan's temptation?
Genesis 3:16
What curses did God give Adam for falling into Satan's temptation?
Genesis 3:17-19

Realizing that they would eventually die, what responsibility now faced Adam and the woman?
Genesis 3:20
What did God do that showed His unfailing love for the Crown of His Creation?
Genesis 3:21
What else did God do that showed His love for Adam and Eve?
Genesis 3:22-24
Besides living forever in sin, why else should Adam and Eve not eat of the tree of life?
1 Corinthians 15:50-54
Does the tree of life still exist?
Revelation 22:1-3a

God created the heavens and the earth.
² Now the earth was formless and empty,
darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

"Let there be light",
and there was light.
⁴ God saw that the light was good,
and he separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light "day",
⁵ and the darkness he called "night".

And there was evening,
and there was morning -
the first day.

"Let there be an expanse between the waters
to separate water from water."
⁷ So God made the expanse and separated the water
under the expanse from the water above it.
And it was so.

⁸ God called the expanse "sky".

And there was evening,
and there was morning -
the second day.

"Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place,
and let dry ground appear."
And it was so.

¹⁰ God called the dry ground "land",
and the gathered waters he called "seas".
And God saw that it was good.

"Let the land produce vegetation:
seed-bearing plants
and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it
according to their various kinds."
And it was so.

¹² The land produced vegetation:
plants bearing seed
according to their kinds
and trees bearing fruit with seed in it
according to their kinds.
And God saw that it was good.

¹³ And there was evening,
and there was morning -
the third day.

"Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky
to separate the day from the night,
and let them serve as signs
to mark seasons and days and years,
¹⁵ and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky
to give light on the earth."
And it was so.

¹⁶ God made two great lights -
the greater light to govern the day
and the lesser light to govern the night.
He also made the stars.
¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of the sky
to give light on the earth,
¹⁸ to govern the day and the night,
and to separate light from darkness.
And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And there was evening,
and there was morning -
the fourth day.

"Let the water teem with living creatures,
and let birds fly above the earth
across the expanse of the sky."
²¹ So God created the great creatures of the sea
and every living and moving thing
with which the water teems,
according to their kinds,
and every winged bird
according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good.

²²God blessed them and said,
"Be fruitful and increase in number
and fill the water in the seas,
and let the birds increase on the earth."

²³ And there was evening,
and there was morning -
the fifth day.

"Let the land produce living creatures
according to their kinds:
livestock,
creatures that move along the ground,
and wild animals,
each according to its kind."
And it was so.

²⁵ God made the wild animals according to their kinds,
the livestock according to their kinds,
and all the creatures that move along the ground
according to their kinds.
And God saw that it was good.

"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness,
and let him rule
over the fish of the sea
and the birds of the air,
over the livestock,
over all the earth,
and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
²⁷ So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

²⁸God blessed them and said,
"Be fruitful and increase in number;
fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish of the sea
and the birds of the air
and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

²⁹Then God said,
"I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth
and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.
They will be yours for food.
³⁰ And to the beasts of the earth
and all the birds of the air
and all the creatures that move on the ground
- everything that has the breath of life in it -
I give every green plant for food."
And it was so.

³¹ God saw all that he had made,
and it was very good.

And there was evening,
and there was morning -
the sixth day.

²By the seventh day
God had finished the work he had been doing;
so on the seventh day
he rested from all his work.

³ And God blessed the seventh day
and made it holy,
because on it he rested
from all the work of creating that he had done.