Ladies and gentlemen, I give you this: the explanation of an unfortunate curse of what man and woman did to everything once they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (see verse 6). As a result, none of us can live a life that honors God if we don’t have the Holy Spirit living in us. And I do mean “living” as like having a permanent address, you know, living in a house or an apartment or college dorm. But the Holy Spirit doesn’t charge you anything to abide in Jesus. I don’t think we should charge God anything, for He does what He wants, right? But all gifts are good that come from Him (James 1:17). And He won’t break your heart, either. We shouldn’t do anything to break His heart ourselves.
The six-verse passage is found in page 2 of the NKJV Bible I have, pages 2-3 of my NASB Bible I bought last year, page 5 of the VOICE copy I bought 23 months ago (January 2017), and in pages 4-5 of my Amplified Bible that I’ve had for a few years, now. In verse 15, we find the first promise of Jesus Christ, the Anointed One to save the earth, when God said, “He will bruise and tread your head underfoot” (AMPC) to Satan. I also just noticed the content of the verse before He said that; I think God put enmity between all demons and all humans. And it’s crucial we see it as such. But in verses 16-19, there are some brutally painful predictions of what every human being goes through without Jesus, at least in marriage and work. Thank God I never have been married yet, nor had I been employed nine years ago last July when I became Christian (my first job I received June 2017, though my start date wasn’t for another two months). I don’t want to be a dominant dirtbag to my wife, single or otherwise. Unfortunately (and you’ll find this often both in and out of the churches), women are told to submit to men, and a man can actually forget what he’s in a marriage for. Shouldn’t we give ourselves to our wives? But it would be much appreciated if they did the same for us. I won’t make mine do it — I’m still a single bachelor anyway 😅 — I just hope there’s mutual love between us both in the future. As it stands now, though, I don’t have a lot of good finances in my life. I want to bless my wife one day, and I want to be free of debts by the time I even ask her out. I also want to oppose abuse in every way, shape, or form, even the ones I don’t know about yet.
I notice that what God said to Adam in verses 17-19 is the same for everyone else, for even though He didn’t curse the ground or anything to make any human’s life miserable here (nor did He curse Eve; I think Satan has wanted to indoctrinate as many guys as he could), reality bites harder than a hundred thousand piranhas on your skin while you’re swimming in the Amazon River. I actually don’t think anger is something I can accept when it’s about anything but injustice. And even then, I don’t think it’s worth it to hurl insults at someone.
On anger itself, though… I don’t think that’s part of being a human being, even if you’re male. I know someone can declare this heresy, but I disagree with them completely. (A heresy is a teaching that knowingly contradicts something truthful.) I’m a man myself, and I’ve never liked the whole “to be a man is to be angry” thing. But I don’t want to talk about this — instead, I’m rather shocked that gender division is still happening. It’s 2018, this should’ve been put far behind everyone when Christianity was becoming more and more popular in the world. Yet for some reason, people crept in unnoticed and started twisting the truth in greater and greater capacities. I feel like we’re at a point where the Church could lose its meaning forever. It was written in the Scriptures that we are the light of the world as Christians, not bearers of darkness pretending to be light!
(Awhile later…) Wow, sorry, I just realized I was still writing this post! I was on Facebook 😂😂😂 — I have many things to say against godlessness being encouraged in the Church at large and outside of it, but I can’t fit it all into this post, so I’ll speak later. But tomorrow night, get ready for the first story of God’s provision for humans after the Fall of Man, as this chapter is traditionally called.
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