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In this episode, we delve into the biblical narrative of the fall of man as described in the Book of Genesis. The discussion centers around the consequences faced by Adam and Eve after eating from the tree of knowledge, including the curses pronounced by God on the serpent, Eve, and Adam. We explore the themes of sin, punishment, and redemption, and how these ancient texts have influenced theological thought throughout history. The episode also touches on the symbolic meanings of the serpent, the pain of childbirth, and the toil of labor, as well as the expulsion from the Garden of Eden and the significance of the tree of life.

Join us as we reflect on these profound stories and their implications for understanding human nature and morality.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

• Genesis 3 - Bible Gateway

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Because you have done this, you are crushed above all livestock   and above every animal of the field.   You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.   I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring   and her offspring.   He will bruise your head and you will bruise his heel.   To the woman he said,   I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.   You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. To Adam, he said,   because you have listened to your wife's voice and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you saying you shall not eat of it. The ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. It will yield thorns and to you and you will eat the herb of the field.  

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground for you were taken out of it for you are dust   and you shall return   to  

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dust. The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.   Yahweh, God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife and clothed them.   Yahweh God said, behold,   the man has become like one of us,   knowing good and evil now,   lest he reach out his hand,   and also take of the tree of life, and eat and live forever.   Therefore,   Yahweh God sent him out from the Garden   of Eden   until the ground from which he was taken.   So he drove out the land,   true of life.