*** THE FIRST SINS REVISITED

 

The first sins revisited

What was the first three sins of creation mentioned in the Bible? Pride, Jealousy and Murder!

 
PRIDE

The first creature to have pride was Satan. According to the Bible,  among the angels was another being, Lucifer. He would not obey the Creator and was cast out of Heaven to live his corrupt life on the Earth (that happened between Genesis 1 verse 1 and 1 verse 2 and are confirmed by archaeology and external sources). He and his cronies received their "earthly" punishment in Genesis 1 verse 2. Their final punishment is still coming...

Lucifer did respect neither the Creator nor the creation whom the Creator asked to be respected when he disobeyed the Creator when he was still allowed in heaven. He regarded himself better and the sin of pride was presented for the first time. He apparently didn't even have remorse for being disobedient.

Lucifer, now called Satan, the Fallen One, shortly after the Creator placed Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, sneaked back in, change his appearance (shape shift, if you want to use a different term...) to that of a talking snake and appeared to Adam's new wife and seduce her... And gave them a reason to become proud as well: if you eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil you will become like the Creator and the angels! This tree is your stepping stone to Heaven (and not "poison" as you were made to believe)! Eve ate, realize it is a "stepping stone" but not whereto! (Hell, that is, the abode of punishment for total disobedience.) She offered Adam and he ate too. They then realized Satan lied to them, started feeling ashamed of themselves and tried to hide from the Creator. But once Adam heard (and saw) the Creator again, he realized they had sin and repented (unlike Satan earlier in Heaven).

Sin bears consequences and they accepted the punishment: they are not allowed back in the garden as there is another tree there that the angels are currently guarding: the Tree of Eternal Life. They have to live outside in the harsh environment of Earth away from the provisions and shelter of the garden...

JEALOUSY

Now that Adam and Eve lived outside the garden of Eden, they lived the hard way. They had children. Their first two sons, Cain and Abel, learned to serve the Creator from their father and mother.

The Creator asked for a sacrifice (burned offering) to see what their intentions were. Abel was a shepherd and Cain was a grain farmer. They brought from their belongings as a sacrifice. Both are acceptable offerings to bring (see the Book of Leviticus), but Cain's heart was not in the offering. Maybe he thought that those grains would have been better as food for the family or for Abel's sheep... Abel's intentions were sincere when he slaughter the ram for his burned offering. He probably believed the Creator would send him more lambs the next year so that the family can eat their meat and milk from their mothers for a nourishing drink...

When the Creator told Cain that his offering was not accepted because his intentions was wrong, he became jealous of his brother whose offering was accepted. Instead of repenting, his heart become even more hardened and he decided to follow his sin up with another sin: murder.

MURDER

With his hardened heart, Cain now started to dwell on his sin and so one sin lead to another. He became so enraged with jealousy and hatred that he killed his brother. The Creator came to him and asked him, "Where is your brother?" He answered Him, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?" Because of his hardened heart and the dwelling on the sin of jealousy, he thought he was entitled to kill his brother. "Your brother's blood is calling from the earth. You will be fleeing from yourself for the rest of your life."

Cain asked for protection, not repentance, and was granted a sign so that neither the angels nor his family would kill him.

 

CONCLUSION

Sin always leads to one of two results: repentance or hardness of heart. The sooner you repent, the less chance you have of committing more sins, like Cain and Satan. And that's one of the reasons this world is so full of crime and sin today...

 

Reproduced, expanded and edited with permission by Pastor Magda Grobbelaar-Sampson.