Chapter 2
How it all started
As recorded in the Book of Genesis in the Bible, God created the universe, and
this little blue dot floating in space we all call home.
ìIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.î
Genesis 1:
God fashioned Adam, the first man, from the very Earth that He had made.ìAnd the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul.î Genesis 2:
From that first man, God created woman.ìAnd the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and
he slept: and he took one of his ribs...and [from] the rib, which the
Lord God had taken from man, [He] made a woman.î
Genesis 2:21; 22
The LORD God put them in the perfect place to live ñ a paradise called the
Garden of Eden. There, Adam and Eve would have fellowship with their Creator,
and abide in peace and harmony with everything the LORD had made.
However, before the LORD had made Eve from Adamís rib, He told Adam that
he could eat from any tree in the Garden ñ except one.
ìAnd the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God
commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.î Genesis 2:15-
Since Eve was not present during that conversation, she was an easy target
for the devil. Satan appeared to her as a serpent and convinced her to doubt
Godís command.