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Genesis 3:1–13 examines how Adam and Eve move from trust in God’s word to competing with God through a subtle, dangerous appetite for rivalry and violence. Philippians 2:3–11 and Psalm 32 deepen the contrast through Jesus’ attitude and the emotional weight of unconfessed sin. 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The text links the temptation to a desire for rivalry and violence rather than harmony and wellbeing.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"How does the chapter explain the change in the relationship with God after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden tree?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"It emphasizes separation, highlighting that disobedience results in consequences for both Adam and Eve. The chapter invites readers to look for signs of that separation in the world today.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"How should believers respond to desire and rivalry according to the chapter’s meditation?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"The chapter teaches that desire is not the problem; the question is whose desires are being imitated. It recommends becoming sensitive to rivalry by asking what desire to acquire is driving it, whom one is imitating, and then choosing to become imitators of God through love, empathy, compassion, and confession.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},199400,1788505872,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":44,"category_name":45,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":14,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":130,"read_time":24},549768064622,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_6f874abed73319feea01a86fa6f0fab8","Chapter 4: The Drama of Desire  \n● Genesis 3:1-13  \n“The story of Adam and Eve doesn’t need to be about literal historical figures in the past to tell us something very true about us, our history, and our world today. We humans have consistently chosen the wrong tree. Instead of imitating and reflecting God as good image bearers should do, we start competing with God, edging God out, playing god ourselves. We reject the Creator and choose another model instead: a snake (the story says), who seems to represent a subtle and dangerous desire to choose rivalry and violence over harmony and wellbeing.” 1  \nQ1: Did Eve know God’s word regarding“the tree which is in the middle of the garden”(verses 2-3)?  \nQ2: What caused her to give into the temptation (verse 6)?  \nQ3: Read 1 John 2:15-17 . Consider the temptations mentioned in verse 16. How are these similar to the temptations that Eve faced? And to the temptations that we face today?  \nQ4: How did the relationship with God change when Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree?  \nQ5: What were the consequences for Adam and Eve when they disobeyed God? Can you see signs of this separation in our world today?  \n“Now, there’s nothing wrong with desire. The question is, whose desires are you imitating? To be alive is to imitate God’s generous desires---to create, to bless, to help, to serve, to care for, to save, to enjoy. To make the opposite choice-to imitate one another’s desires and become one another’s rivals-is to choose a path of death.” 2  \nQ6: “Share a story about your interaction with someone you were jealous of or considered a rival. What did they have or desire that you desired? How did your relationship play out?” 3  \n● Philippians 2:3-11  \nQ7: How does Jesus’ attitude stand in contrast to the human drama of desire as personified by Adam and Eve?  \n1 McLaren, B. , 2014. We make the Road by Walking. 2nd ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Page 18.  \n2 McLaren, B. , 2014. We make the Road by Walking. 2nd ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Page 20.  \n3 McLaren, B. , 2014. We make the Road by Walking. 2nd ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Page 22.  \n● Psalm 32  \nQ8: The psalmist describes what it feels like to carry a sin that is not confessed and forgiven (verses 3-4) . Can you identify?  \nQ9: How do you confess your sin? Do you feel reassured of God’s forgiveness?  \nFurther meditation  \n“Be especially sensitive to rivalry this week. When you feel it, ask what ‘desire to acquire’is driving you. And ask whom you are imitating in this‘desire to acquire’. In this way, seek to  \nbecome more aware of the Cain and Abel struggling in your own life and heart.” 4 Let this verse remind you of the One we wish to imitate:  \n“Therefore become imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father]; and walk continually in love [that is, value one another—practice empathy and compassion, unselfishly seeking the best for others], just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God [slain for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance.”(Ephesians 5:1-2)  \n4 McLaren, B. , 2014. We make the Road by Walking. 2nd ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Page 22.","cbCaicVxpKQwH7hA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicVxpKQwH7hA","pdf",74267,"English","# Genesis 3:1-13\n## Questions on temptation and consequences\n# Desire, imitation, and the path of death\n## Reflection on jealousy and rivalry\n# Philippians 2:3-11\n## Comparing Jesus’ attitude\n# Psalm 32\n## Unconfessed sin and confession\n# Further meditation\n## Sensitivity to rivalry and imitating God","[{\"question\":\"What does the chapter say about Eve’s temptation and God’s word (Genesis 3:1-3, 6)?\",\"answer\":\"It asks whether Eve understood God’s word about the tree in the middle of the garden and then focuses on what drove her to give in to temptation. 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