It is interesting that half of Eve's punishment in Genesis 3:16 is painful childbirth — because she chooses to not have children in the Garden of Eden and God wants to remind her of her decision?
I’ve started over reading the Bible chronologically again this year, so I find myself in the same place where I was last January—in the book of Genesis. Genesis means "origin," so it’s the ...
In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth didn’t have any form. Over the course of six days, ...
The story of the Garden of Eden is one of the best known in the Bible. It explains how Adam and Eve, the first humans, sinned, were separated from God and were expelled from paradise. Yet how much ...
According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), the Garden of Eden in which God placed Adam and Eve is located in Jackson County, Missouri, near the town of Independence.
He didn’t use force or violence or threats. The serpent used doubt. It said to Eve, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” And Eve answered that yes, they weren’t ...