Source (book): "In The Beginning", Tracing The Gospel Story In Genesis, Chapter 4, "The Fall and the Fallout (Genesis 3:14-24)", Question 1, "How have you seen sin affect your relationships", Page 38.
By Robert M. Solomon, Bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore from 2000 - 2012
By Robert M. Solomon, Bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore from 2000 - 2012
PHOTO: In C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, the children find that Narnia, a world created by Aslan the lion (a figure of Christ), has been frozen. How did this come about? A wicked witch had cast an evil spell over the land and cursed it.¹⁴
In Genesis 3, we are told the real story of how the world came to be cursed. The surprising thing is that it is God who pronounces the curse on the human beings who had sinned against Him. After the serpent succeeded in deceiving Adam and Eve, spiritual darkness fell upon God's world. The warning that God gave the humans - "You will certainly die" - was now in operation.
Adam had tried to put the blame on Eve, who, in turn, tried blaming the serpent. The serpent had no one to blame but himself, and so he was silent when God turned His holy gaze on him. God spoke a series of curses. This is what He said to the serpent:
"Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel" (Genesis 3:14-15).
There are two layers to the curses here: the first addresses the serpent and the second addresses Satan, who had been speaking behind the serpent. The second layer is more important as it deals with Satan and his ultimate end. Here, at the beginning of Genesis, God already introduces Jesus, the offspring of he woman who will strike the fatal blow to Satan and his demonic angels (see Revelation 12:4-5). By God's miraculous power, Jesus will be born to a virgin and enter our world. He shared in our humanity, "so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14). Indeed, though it looked like the devil had struck the offspring's heel at the cross, his victory was only temporary. Three days later, Jesus conquered death and in so doing, "disarmed the powers and authorities" and "made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15). It is through Christ that Satan and his demonic angels are crushed once and for all and cast into hell (Revelation 20:10). Even in the curse, God provides hope for the human race. His words in Genesis unfold in a wonderful story of salvation that we read about in the rest of Scripture.
Next, God turned to the woman and told her:
"I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labour you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you" (Genesis 3:16).
Here, we are introduced to the idea of pain being connected with childbirth (and childrearing, we can add). We can extrapolate (estimate or predict) it to a more general reality: pleasure . . . pregnancy . . . childbirth . . . pain. Something has gone wrong when children, who are conceived in pleasure for the parents, are born amid pain to the mother.
The woman is also told that her husband will rule over her. This is not a prescription (that is, God's instruction for how men should treat women) but a description of the consequences of human sin. From the earliest of times, men (who have had physical and social advantages) have tended to abuse women.
The woman is further told that her desire will be for her husband. The original Hebrew word for "desire" is teshuqah. It is the same word that God uses when Cain is about to murder his brother, "sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it" (Genesis 4:7, emphasis added). The context helps us understand that teshuqah connotes the notion of seeking to control, suggesting that the marital relationship between Adam and Eve would degenerate to one of competition and the quest for power over the other.¹⁵ The man would dominate his wife and have the tendency to be abusive towards her, while the woman would resist by seeking to control the man by more subtler (behaving in a way that is not obvious, loud, or direct) means. Marriage had become a power struggle after the Fall.
Paul's prescription on the husband-wife relationship in Ephesians 5 must be read against this reality. If marriage is seen as a perpetual power struggle, then it leads to no real solutions. The best that can be done is to help negotiate a balance of power that would maintain some degree of peace in the relationship. Even in the church, we tend to think of marriage in terms of power and authority: who should submit to whom or whether the husband is the head of his wife and so on.
We misunderstood Paul if we interpret his words through the effects of the Fall described in Genesis 3. Discussions that focus on how the husband is "the head of the wife" and "wives should submit to their husbands" rely on worldly notions of power (Ephesians 5:22-24). Instead, if we read Paul's words in context, we see how Christ redeems marriage from being a power struggle. Paul's instructions about a wife's role in marriage mut be seen in tandem with the second half of Paul's instructions: husband are to love their wives "as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Ephesians 5:25). The biblical condition for headship is to demonstrate care (Ephesians 5:25, 29).¹⁶
There is a big paradigm shift here: marriage is no longer seen in terms of a power relationship, but is rightly seen as a love relationship.¹⁷ The former is the consequence of the Fall, while the latter is a possibility created by divine grace. The husband exercises his role of being the "head" (the servant leader)¹⁸ with self-giving love while the wife submits out of love for her Lord and her husband.
To Adam, God had this to say:
"Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return" (Genesis 3:17-19).
Here, we are introduced to the relationship between frustration, work, and death. Work will be thankless toil, spoilt by "thorns and thistles", and the food we eat will not be able to keep us alive forever. Death will come to all, and human beings will return to the dust from which they were made. We are familiar with these burdens of human life.
Furthermore, their sin also causes the ground to be cursed. We see the implications today as our sin continues to affect the earth, both directly (as in how we pollute and destroy the environment) and indirectly (as in a general curse on nature). The apostle Paul mentions this when he describes how the whole creation has been groaning, subjected to "frustration" and "bondage to decay". With us, creation awaits liberation together with the redeemed children of God, who look to the glorious freedom in Christ (Romans 8:18-25).
But even though God laid these curses on the couple, He also covered Adam and Eve's shame with garments of skin (Genesis 3:21). This was animal skin, meaning that an animal or animals were sacrificed to cover their shame. This is an indication of how God will send the Lamb of God (Jesus) to die in atonement for our sins so that we can be forgiven and restored. To prepare for this event, Israel was instructed to worship God by sacrificing lambs as a regular ritual. It was a way of reminding His people that the curse of sin and its consequences would continually be wrapped in divine grace, from the time of the Fall until the coming of Christ.
Adam and Eve were banished from Eden. They could not re-enter it and risk eating from the tree of life and remain alive in their state of sin forever. Paradise was lost to them. They had become homeless, which would become an inherent human condition. No matter what we achieve and attain in our lives, nothing will ever satisfy deeply because without God, we are essentially without a true home. Yet, we are not without hope. The apostle Paul wrote that "just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned", through another man, Jesus Christ, there is salvation to all who repent (Romans 5:12, 15). Death may have come through Adam, but through the resurrection of Christ, the "Last Adam", "all will be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
As Warren Wiersbe notes, "The Old Testament is the 'book of the generations of Adam' (Genesis 5:1), and it ends speaking of a curse (Malachi 4:6). The New Testament is the 'book of the generation of Jesus Christ' (Matthew 1:1), and it ends with 'no more curse' (Revelation 22:3)".¹⁹ In God's long story of salvation, those who repent and believe in Christ will finally be home with God, where they will freely eat from the tree of life: "No longer will there be any curse"; "they will reign for ever and ever" (Revelation 22:1-5).
How have you seen sin affect your relationships?
In Chapter 4 of Dr. Robert M. Solomon's book "In The Beginning", he talks about how sin breaks our relationships and changes how we treat each other.
The Fall (Genesis 3:14-24) caused sin to act as a spiritual poison, transforming human relationships from harmony into a "fallout" of blame-shifting, social masking, and power struggles. This disruption manifests as a reluctance to take responsibility, a fear of vulnerability, and a tendency toward control rather than mutual support in daily life.
Based on the book's reflection on Genesis 3:14-24, here is how sin affects daily relationships:
How to build trust again after a major conflict
To build trust again after a major conflict, both sides must commit to a slow, intentional process of healing. Trust cannot be rushed; it is rebuilt through consistent, changed behavior over time rather than words alone.
Immediate Steps for Both Parties
Actions for the Person Who Hurt the Other
Actions for the Person Who Was Hurt
In C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, the children find that Narnia, a world created by Aslan the lion (a figure of Christ), has been frozen. How did this come about? A wicked witch had cast an evil spell over the land and cursed it.¹⁴
In Genesis 3, we are told the real story of how the world came to be cursed. The surprising thing is that it is God who pronounces the curse on the human beings who had sinned against Him. After the serpent succeeded in deceiving Adam and Eve, spiritual darkness fell upon God's world. The warning that God gave the humans - "You will certainly die" - was now in operation.
Adam had tried to put the blame on Eve, who, in turn, tried blaming the serpent. The serpent had no one to blame but himself, and so he was silent when God turned His holy gaze on him. God spoke a series of curses. This is what He said to the serpent:
"Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel" (Genesis 3:14-15).
There are two layers to the curses here: the first addresses the serpent and the second addresses Satan, who had been speaking behind the serpent. The second layer is more important as it deals with Satan and his ultimate end. Here, at the beginning of Genesis, God already introduces Jesus, the offspring of he woman who will strike the fatal blow to Satan and his demonic angels (see Revelation 12:4-5). By God's miraculous power, Jesus will be born to a virgin and enter our world. He shared in our humanity, "so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14). Indeed, though it looked like the devil had struck the offspring's heel at the cross, his victory was only temporary. Three days later, Jesus conquered death and in so doing, "disarmed the powers and authorities" and "made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15). It is through Christ that Satan and his demonic angels are crushed once and for all and cast into hell (Revelation 20:10). Even in the curse, God provides hope for the human race. His words in Genesis unfold in a wonderful story of salvation that we read about in the rest of Scripture.
Next, God turned to the woman and told her:
"I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labour you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you" (Genesis 3:16).
Here, we are introduced to the idea of pain being connected with childbirth (and childrearing, we can add). We can extrapolate (estimate or predict) it to a more general reality: pleasure . . . pregnancy . . . childbirth . . . pain. Something has gone wrong when children, who are conceived in pleasure for the parents, are born amid pain to the mother.
The woman is also told that her husband will rule over her. This is not a prescription (that is, God's instruction for how men should treat women) but a description of the consequences of human sin. From the earliest of times, men (who have had physical and social advantages) have tended to abuse women.
The woman is further told that her desire will be for her husband. The original Hebrew word for "desire" is teshuqah. It is the same word that God uses when Cain is about to murder his brother, "sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it" (Genesis 4:7, emphasis added). The context helps us understand that teshuqah connotes the notion of seeking to control, suggesting that the marital relationship between Adam and Eve would degenerate to one of competition and the quest for power over the other.¹⁵ The man would dominate his wife and have the tendency to be abusive towards her, while the woman would resist by seeking to control the man by more subtler (behaving in a way that is not obvious, loud, or direct) means. Marriage had become a power struggle after the Fall.
Paul's prescription on the husband-wife relationship in Ephesians 5 must be read against this reality. If marriage is seen as a perpetual power struggle, then it leads to no real solutions. The best that can be done is to help negotiate a balance of power that would maintain some degree of peace in the relationship. Even in the church, we tend to think of marriage in terms of power and authority: who should submit to whom or whether the husband is the head of his wife and so on.
We misunderstood Paul if we interpret his words through the effects of the Fall described in Genesis 3. Discussions that focus on how the husband is "the head of the wife" and "wives should submit to their husbands" rely on worldly notions of power (Ephesians 5:22-24). Instead, if we read Paul's words in context, we see how Christ redeems marriage from being a power struggle. Paul's instructions about a wife's role in marriage mut be seen in tandem with the second half of Paul's instructions: husband are to love their wives "as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Ephesians 5:25). The biblical condition for headship is to demonstrate care (Ephesians 5:25, 29).¹⁶
There is a big paradigm shift here: marriage is no longer seen in terms of a power relationship, but is rightly seen as a love relationship.¹⁷ The former is the consequence of the Fall, while the latter is a possibility created by divine grace. The husband exercises his role of being the "head" (the servant leader)¹⁸ with self-giving love while the wife submits out of love for her Lord and her husband.
To Adam, God had this to say:
"Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return" (Genesis 3:17-19).
Here, we are introduced to the relationship between frustration, work, and death. Work will be thankless toil, spoilt by "thorns and thistles", and the food we eat will not be able to keep us alive forever. Death will come to all, and human beings will return to the dust from which they were made. We are familiar with these burdens of human life.
Furthermore, their sin also causes the ground to be cursed. We see the implications today as our sin continues to affect the earth, both directly (as in how we pollute and destroy the environment) and indirectly (as in a general curse on nature). The apostle Paul mentions this when he describes how the whole creation has been groaning, subjected to "frustration" and "bondage to decay". With us, creation awaits liberation together with the redeemed children of God, who look to the glorious freedom in Christ (Romans 8:18-25).
But even though God laid these curses on the couple, He also covered Adam and Eve's shame with garments of skin (Genesis 3:21). This was animal skin, meaning that an animal or animals were sacrificed to cover their shame. This is an indication of how God will send the Lamb of God (Jesus) to die in atonement for our sins so that we can be forgiven and restored. To prepare for this event, Israel was instructed to worship God by sacrificing lambs as a regular ritual. It was a way of reminding His people that the curse of sin and its consequences would continually be wrapped in divine grace, from the time of the Fall until the coming of Christ.
Adam and Eve were banished from Eden. They could not re-enter it and risk eating from the tree of life and remain alive in their state of sin forever. Paradise was lost to them. They had become homeless, which would become an inherent human condition. No matter what we achieve and attain in our lives, nothing will ever satisfy deeply because without God, we are essentially without a true home. Yet, we are not without hope. The apostle Paul wrote that "just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned", through another man, Jesus Christ, there is salvation to all who repent (Romans 5:12, 15). Death may have come through Adam, but through the resurrection of Christ, the "Last Adam", "all will be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
As Warren Wiersbe notes, "The Old Testament is the 'book of the generations of Adam' (Genesis 5:1), and it ends speaking of a curse (Malachi 4:6). The New Testament is the 'book of the generation of Jesus Christ' (Matthew 1:1), and it ends with 'no more curse' (Revelation 22:3)".¹⁹ In God's long story of salvation, those who repent and believe in Christ will finally be home with God, where they will freely eat from the tree of life: "No longer will there be any curse"; "they will reign for ever and ever" (Revelation 22:1-5).
How have you seen sin affect your relationships?
In Chapter 4 of Dr. Robert M. Solomon's book "In The Beginning", he talks about how sin breaks our relationships and changes how we treat each other.
The Fall (Genesis 3:14-24) caused sin to act as a spiritual poison, transforming human relationships from harmony into a "fallout" of blame-shifting, social masking, and power struggles. This disruption manifests as a reluctance to take responsibility, a fear of vulnerability, and a tendency toward control rather than mutual support in daily life.
Based on the book's reflection on Genesis 3:14-24, here is how sin affects daily relationships:
- Always blaming others: Just like Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the snake, people today naturally point fingers instead of admitting their own mistakes.
- Hiding behind fake masks: Sin makes people afraid to show who they really are, leading them to hide their true feelings and weaknesses behind a fake, happy front.
- Fighting for control and power: Instead of loving and serving one another, sin causes people to compete, dominate, and try to control their partners or friends.
- Building emotional walls: Guilt and shame create a huge distance between people, making it hard to trust each other or stay close.
- Letting selfishness take over: Pure, unconditional love gets replaced by selfish desires, where people only care about what they can get out of a relationship.
How to build trust again after a major conflict
To build trust again after a major conflict, both sides must commit to a slow, intentional process of healing. Trust cannot be rushed; it is rebuilt through consistent, changed behavior over time rather than words alone.
Immediate Steps for Both Parties
- Acknowledge the specific hurt. Name exactly what actions caused the pain without making excuses.
- Offer a sincere apology. Express genuine remorse instead of using defensive "if" or "but" statements.
- Commit to transparency. Share information openly to eliminate suspicion and show honesty.
- Establish clear boundaries. Discuss what behaviors are acceptable moving forward to create safety.
Actions for the Person Who Hurt the Other
- Demonstrate consistent reliability. Keep every promise, no matter how small, to prove dependability.
- Practice active accountability. Take full ownership of mistakes without shifting the blame to others.
- Allow time for healing. Accept that the other person needs space and cannot forgive instantly.
- Listen without being defensive. Hear their pain patiently without interrupting or trying to justify past actions.
Actions for the Person Who Was Hurt
- Communicate your specific needs. Let the other person know exactly what behaviors will help you feel safe.
- Acknowledge positive changes. Notice and validate the honest efforts the other person is making.
- Avoid rehashing past mistakes. Focus on the current behavior instead of bringing up old arguments during new discussions.
- Commit to the process. Accept that triggers will happen but remain willing to work through them together.
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In C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, the children find that Narnia, a world created by Aslan the lion (a figure of Christ), has been frozen. How did this come about? A wicked witch had cast an evil spell over the land and cursed it.¹⁴
PHOTO: In C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, the children find that Narnia, a world created by Aslan the lion (a figure of Christ), has been frozen. How did this come about? A wicked witch had cast an evil spell over the land and cursed it.¹⁴
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In Genesis 3, we are told the real story of how the world came to be cursed. The surprising thing is that it is God who pronounces the curse on the human beings who had sinned against Him. After the serpent succeeded in deceiving Adam and Eve, spiritual darkness fell upon God's world. The warning that God gave the humans - "You will certainly die" - was now in operation.
PHOTO: In Genesis 3, we are told the real story of how the world came to be cursed. The surprising thing is that it is God who pronounces the curse on the human beings who had sinned against Him. After the serpent succeeded in deceiving Adam and Eve, spiritual darkness fell upon God's world. The warning that God gave the humans - "You will certainly die" - was now in operation.
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Adam had tried to put the blame on Eve, who, in turn, tried blaming the serpent. The serpent had no one to blame but himself, and so he was silent when God turned His holy gaze on him. God spoke a series of curses. This is what He said to the serpent:
"Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel" (Genesis 3:14-15).
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Adam had tried to put the blame on Eve, who, in turn, tried blaming the serpent. The serpent had no one to blame but himself, and so he was silent when God turned His holy gaze on him. God spoke a series of curses. This is what He said to the serpent:
"Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel" (Genesis 3:14-15).
PHOTO: Adam had tried to put the blame on Eve, who, in turn, tried blaming the serpent. The serpent had no one to blame but himself, and so he was silent when God turned His holy gaze on him. God spoke a series of curses.
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There are two layers to the curses here: the first addresses the serpent and the second addresses Satan, who had been speaking behind the serpent. The second layer is more important as it deals with Satan and his ultimate end. Here, at the beginning of Genesis, God already introduces Jesus, the offspring of he woman who will strike the fatal blow to Satan and his demonic angels (see Revelation 12:4-5). By God's miraculous power, Jesus will be born to a virgin and enter our world. He shared in our humanity, "so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14). Indeed, though it looked like the devil had struck the offspring's heel at the cross, his victory was only temporary. Three days later, Jesus conquered death and in so doing, "disarmed the powers and authorities" and "made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15). It is through Christ that Satan and his demonic angels are crushed once and for all and cast into hell (Revelation 20:10). Even in the curse, God provides hope for the human race. His words in Genesis unfold in a wonderful story of salvation that we read about in the rest of Scripture.
PHOTO: There are two layers to the curses here: the first addresses the serpent and the second addresses Satan, who had been speaking behind the serpent. The second layer is more important as it deals with Satan and his ultimate end. Here, at the beginning of Genesis, God already introduces Jesus, the offspring of he woman who will strike the fatal blow to Satan and his demonic angels (see Revelation 12:4-5). By God's miraculous power, Jesus will be born to a virgin and enter our world. He shared in our humanity, "so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14).
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PHOTO: Indeed, though it looked like the devil had struck the offspring's heel at the cross, his victory was only temporary. Three days later, Jesus conquered death and in so doing, "disarmed the powers and authorities" and "made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15). It is through Christ that Satan and his demonic angels are crushed once and for all and cast into hell (Revelation 20:10). Even in the curse, God provides hope for the human race. His words in Genesis unfold in a wonderful story of salvation that we read about in the rest of Scripture.
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Next, God turned to the woman and told her:
"I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labour you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you" (Genesis 3:16).
PHOTO: God turned to the woman and told her:
"I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labour you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you" (Genesis 3:16).
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Here, we are introduced to the idea of pain being connected with childbirth (and childrearing, we can add). We can extrapolate (estimate or predict) it to a more general reality: pleasure . . . pregnancy . . . childbirth . . . pain. Something has gone wrong when children, who are conceived in pleasure for the parents, are born amid pain to the mother.
PHOTO: Here, we are introduced to the idea of pain being connected with childbirth (and childrearing, we can add). We can extrapolate (estimate or predict) it to a more general reality: pleasure . . . pregnancy . . . childbirth . . . pain. Something has gone wrong when children, who are conceived in pleasure for the parents, are born amid pain to the mother.
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The woman is also told that her husband will rule over her. This is not a prescription (that is, God's instruction for how men should treat women) but a description of the consequences of human sin. From the earliest of times, men (who have had physical and social advantages) have tended to abuse women.
PHOTO: The woman is also told that her husband will rule over her. This is not a prescription (that is, God's instruction for how men should treat women) but a description of the consequences of human sin. From the earliest of times, men (who have had physical and social advantages) have tended to abuse women.
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The woman is further told that her desire will be for her husband. The original Hebrew word for "desire" is teshuqah. It is the same word that God uses when Cain is about to murder his brother, "sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it" (Genesis 4:7, emphasis added). The context helps us understand that teshuqah connotes the notion of seeking to control, suggesting that the marital relationship between Adam and Eve would degenerate to one of competition and the quest for power over the other.¹⁵ The man would dominate his wife and have the tendency to be abusive towards her, while the woman would resist by seeking to control the man by more subtler (behaving in a way that is not obvious, loud, or direct) means. Marriage had become a power struggle after the Fall.
PHOTO: The woman is further told that her desire will be for her husband. The original Hebrew word for "desire" is teshuqah. It is the same word that God uses when Cain is about to murder his brother, "sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it" (Genesis 4:7, emphasis added). The context helps us understand that teshuqah connotes the notion of seeking to control, suggesting that the marital relationship between Adam and Eve would degenerate to one of competition and the quest for power over the other.¹⁵ The man would dominate his wife and have the tendency to be abusive towards her, while the woman would resist by seeking to control the man by more subtler (behaving in a way that is not obvious, loud, or direct) means. Marriage had become a power struggle after the Fall.
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Paul's prescription on the husband-wife relationship in Ephesians 5 must be read against this reality. If marriage is seen as a perpetual power struggle, then it leads to no real solutions. The best that can be done is to help negotiate a balance of power that would maintain some degree of peace in the relationship. Even in the church, we tend to think of marriage in terms of power and authority: who should submit to whom or whether the husband is the head of his wife and so on.
PHOTO: Paul's prescription on the husband-wife relationship in Ephesians 5 must be read against this reality. If marriage is seen as a perpetual power struggle, then it leads to no real solutions. The best that can be done is to help negotiate a balance of power that would maintain some degree of peace in the relationship. Even in the church, we tend to think of marriage in terms of power and authority: who should submit to whom or whether the husband is the head of his wife and so on.
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We misunderstood Paul if we interpret his words through the effects of the Fall described in Genesis 3. Discussions that focus on how the husband is "the head of the wife" and "wives should submit to their husbands" rely on worldly notions of power (Ephesians 5:22-24). Instead, if we read Paul's words in context, we see how Christ redeems marriage from being a power struggle. Paul's instructions about a wife's role in marriage mut be seen in tandem with the second half of Paul's instructions: husband are to love their wives "as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Ephesians 5:25). The biblical condition for headship is to demonstrate care (Ephesians 5:25, 29).¹⁶
PHOTO: We misunderstood Paul if we interpret his words through the effects of the Fall described in Genesis 3. Discussions that focus on how the husband is "the head of the wife" and "wives should submit to their husbands" rely on worldly notions of power (Ephesians 5:22-24). Instead, if we read Paul's words in context, we see how Christ redeems marriage from being a power struggle. Paul's instructions about a wife's role in marriage mut be seen in tandem with the second half of Paul's instructions: husband are to love their wives "as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Ephesians 5:25). The biblical condition for headship is to demonstrate care (Ephesians 5:25, 29).¹⁶
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There is a big paradigm shift here: marriage is no longer seen in terms of a power relationship, but is rightly seen as a love relationship.¹⁷ The former is the consequence of the Fall, while the latter is a possibility created by divine grace. The husband exercises his role of being the "head" (the servant leader)¹⁸ with self-giving love while the wife submits out of love for her Lord and her husband.
PHOTO: There is a big paradigm shift here: marriage is no longer seen in terms of a power relationship, but is rightly seen as a love relationship.¹⁷ The former is the consequence of the Fall, while the latter is a possibility created by divine grace. The husband exercises his role of being the "head" (the servant leader)¹⁸ with self-giving love while the wife submits out of love for her Lord and her husband.
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To Adam, God had this to say:
"Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return" (Genesis 3:17-19).
PHOTO: To Adam, God had this to say:
"Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return" (Genesis 3:17-19).
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Here, we are introduced to the relationship between frustration, work, and death. Work will be thankless toil, spoilt by "thorns and thistles", and the food we eat will not be able to keep us alive forever. Death will come to all, and human beings will return to the dust from which they were made. We are familiar with these burdens of human life.
PHOTO: Here, we are introduced to the relationship between frustration, work, and death. Work will be thankless toil, spoilt by "thorns and thistles", and the food we eat will not be able to keep us alive forever. Death will come to all, and human beings will return to the dust from which they were made. We are familiar with these burdens of human life.
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Furthermore, their sin also causes the ground to be cursed. We see the implications today as our sin continues to affect the earth, both directly (as in how we pollute and destroy the environment) and indirectly (as in a general curse on nature). The apostle Paul mentions this when he describes how the whole creation has been groaning, subjected to "frustration" and "bondage to decay". With us, creation awaits liberation together with the redeemed children of God, who look to the glorious freedom in Christ (Romans 8:18-25).
PHOTO: Furthermore, their sin also causes the ground to be cursed. We see the implications today as our sin continues to affect the earth, both directly (as in how we pollute and destroy the environment) and indirectly (as in a general curse on nature). The apostle Paul mentions this when he describes how the whole creation has been groaning, subjected to "frustration" and "bondage to decay". With us, creation awaits liberation together with the redeemed children of God, who look to the glorious freedom in Christ (Romans 8:18-25).
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But even though God laid these curses on the couple, He also covered Adam and Eve's shame with garments of skin (Genesis 3:21). This was animal skin, meaning that an animal or animals were sacrificed to cover their shame. This is an indication of how God will send the Lamb of God (Jesus) to die in atonement for our sins so that we can be forgiven and restored. To prepare for this event, Israel was instructed to worship God by sacrificing lambs as a regular ritual. It was a way of reminding His people that the curse of sin and its consequences would continually be wrapped in divine grace, from the time of the Fall until the coming of Christ.
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But even though God laid these curses on the couple, He also covered Adam and Eve's shame with garments of skin (Genesis 3:21). This was animal skin, meaning that an animal or animals were sacrificed to cover their shame. This is an indication of how God will send the Lamb of God (Jesus) to die in atonement for our sins so that we can be forgiven and restored. To prepare for this event, Israel was instructed to worship God by sacrificing lambs as a regular ritual. It was a way of reminding His people that the curse of sin and its consequences would continually be wrapped in divine grace, from the time of the Fall until the coming of Christ.
PHOTO: But even though God laid these curses on the couple, He also covered Adam and Eve's shame with garments of skin (Genesis 3:21). This was animal skin, meaning that an animal or animals were sacrificed to cover their shame. This is an indication of how God will send the Lamb of God (Jesus) to die in atonement for our sins so that we can be forgiven and restored. To prepare for this event, Israel was instructed to worship God by sacrificing lambs as a regular ritual. It was a way of reminding His people that the curse of sin and its consequences would continually be wrapped in divine grace, from the time of the Fall until the coming of Christ.
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Adam and Eve were banished from Eden. They could not re-enter it and risk eating from the tree of life and remain alive in their state of sin forever. Paradise was lost to them. They had become homeless, which would become an inherent human condition. No matter what we achieve and attain in our lives, nothing will ever satisfy deeply because without God, we are essentially without a true home. Yet, we are not without hope. The apostle Paul wrote that "just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned", through another man, Jesus Christ, there is salvation to all who repent (Romans 5:12, 15). Death may have come through Adam, but through the resurrection of Christ, the "Last Adam", "all will be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
PHOTO: Adam and Eve were banished from Eden. They could not re-enter it and risk eating from the tree of life and remain alive in their state of sin forever. Paradise was lost to them. They had become homeless, which would become an inherent human condition. No matter what we achieve and attain in our lives, nothing will ever satisfy deeply because without God, we are essentially without a true home. Yet, we are not without hope. The apostle Paul wrote that "just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned", through another man, Jesus Christ, there is salvation to all who repent (Romans 5:12, 15). Death may have come through Adam, but through the resurrection of Christ, the "Last Adam", "all will be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
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As Warren Wiersbe notes, "The Old Testament is the 'book of the generations of Adam' (Genesis 5:1), and it ends speaking of a curse (Malachi 4:6). The New Testament is the 'book of the generation of Jesus Christ' (Matthew 1:1), and it ends with 'no more curse' (Revelation 22:3)".¹⁹ In God's long story of salvation, those who repent and believe in Christ will finally be home with God, where they will freely eat from the tree of life: "No longer will there be any curse"; "they will reign for ever and ever" (Revelation 22:1-5).
PHOTO: As Warren Wiersbe notes, "The Old Testament is the 'book of the generations of Adam' (Genesis 5:1), and it ends speaking of a curse (Malachi 4:6). The New Testament is the 'book of the generation of Jesus Christ' (Matthew 1:1), and it ends with 'no more curse' (Revelation 22:3)".¹⁹ In God's long story of salvation, those who repent and believe in Christ will finally be home with God, where they will freely eat from the tree of life: "No longer will there be any curse"; "they will reign for ever and ever" (Revelation 22:1-5).
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How have you seen sin affect your relationships?
In Chapter 4 of Dr. Robert M. Solomon's book "In The Beginning", he talks about how sin breaks our relationships and changes how we treat each other.
The Fall (Genesis 3:14-24) caused sin to act as a spiritual poison, transforming human relationships from harmony into a "fallout" of blame-shifting, social masking, and power struggles. This disruption manifests as a reluctance to take responsibility, a fear of vulnerability, and a tendency toward control rather than mutual support in daily life.
PHOTO: The Fall (Genesis 3:14-24) caused sin to act as a spiritual poison, transforming human relationships from harmony into a "fallout" of blame-shifting, social masking, and power struggles. This disruption manifests as a reluctance to take responsibility, a fear of vulnerability, and a tendency toward control rather than mutual support in daily life.
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Based on the book's reflection on Genesis 3:14-24, here is how sin affects daily relationships:
- Always blaming others: Just like Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the snake, people today naturally point fingers instead of admitting their own mistakes.
- Hiding behind fake masks: Sin makes people afraid to show who they really are, leading them to hide their true feelings and weaknesses behind a fake, happy front.
- Fighting for control and power: Instead of loving and serving one another, sin causes people to compete, dominate, and try to control their partners or friends.
- Building emotional walls: Guilt and shame create a huge distance between people, making it hard to trust each other or stay close.
- Letting selfishness take over: Pure, unconditional love gets replaced by selfish desires, where people only care about what they can get out of a relationship.
PHOTO: How sin affects daily relationships
Always blaming others: Just like Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the snake, people today naturally point fingers instead of admitting their own mistakes.
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Hiding behind fake masks: Sin makes people afraid to show who they really are, leading them to hide their true feelings and weaknesses behind a fake, happy front.
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Fighting for control and power: Instead of loving and serving one another, sin causes people to compete, dominate, and try to control their partners or friends.
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Building emotional walls: Guilt and shame create a huge distance between people, making it hard to trust each other or stay close.
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Letting selfishness take over: Pure, unconditional love gets replaced by selfish desires, where people only care about what they can get out of a relationship.
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How to build trust again after a major conflict
To build trust again after a major conflict, both sides must commit to a slow, intentional process of healing. Trust cannot be rushed; it is rebuilt through consistent, changed behavior over time rather than words alone.
Immediate Steps for Both Parties
- Acknowledge the specific hurt. Name exactly what actions caused the pain without making excuses.
- Offer a sincere apology. Express genuine remorse instead of using defensive "if" or "but" statements.
- Commit to transparency. Share information openly to eliminate suspicion and show honesty.
- Establish clear boundaries. Discuss what behaviors are acceptable moving forward to create safety.
PHOTO: Immediate Steps for Both Parties
Acknowledge the specific hurt. Name exactly what actions caused the pain without making excuses.
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PHOTO: Immediate Steps for Both Parties
Offer a sincere apology. Express genuine remorse instead of using defensive "if" or "but" statements.
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PHOTO: Immediate Steps for Both Parties
Commit to transparency. Share information openly to eliminate suspicion and show honesty.
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PHOTO: Immediate Steps for Both Parties
Establish clear boundaries. Discuss what behaviors are acceptable moving forward to create safety.
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Actions for the Person Who Hurt the Other
- Demonstrate consistent reliability. Keep every promise, no matter how small, to prove dependability.
- Practice active accountability. Take full ownership of mistakes without shifting the blame to others.
- Allow time for healing. Accept that the other person needs space and cannot forgive instantly.
- Listen without being defensive. Hear their pain patiently without interrupting or trying to justify past actions.
PHOTO: Actions for the Person Who Hurt the Other
Demonstrate consistent reliability. Keep every promise, no matter how small, to prove dependability.
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PHOTO: Actions for the Person Who Hurt the Other
Practice active accountability. Take full ownership of mistakes without shifting the blame to others.
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PHOTO: Actions for the Person Who Hurt the Other
Allow time for healing. Accept that the other person needs space and cannot forgive instantly.
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PHOTO: Actions for the Person Who Hurt the Other
Listen without being defensive. Hear their pain patiently without interrupting or trying to justify past actions.
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Actions for the Person Who Was Hurt
- Communicate your specific needs. Let the other person know exactly what behaviors will help you feel safe.
- Acknowledge positive changes. Notice and validate the honest efforts the other person is making.
- Avoid rehashing past mistakes. Focus on the current behavior instead of bringing up old arguments during new discussions.
- Commit to the process. Accept that triggers will happen but remain willing to work through them together.
PHOTO: Actions for the Person Who Was Hurt
Communicate your specific needs. Let the other person know exactly what behaviors will help you feel safe.
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PHOTO: Actions for the Person Who Was Hurt
Acknowledge positive changes. Notice and validate the honest efforts the other person is making.
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PHOTO: Actions for the Person Who Was Hurt
Avoid rehashing past mistakes. Focus on the current behavior instead of bringing up old arguments during new discussions.
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PHOTO: Actions for the Person Who Was Hurt
Commit to the process. Accept that triggers will happen but remain willing to work through them together.
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PHOTO: "Dear Lord, we pray that we begin to build trust again after a major conflict, with both sides commit to a slow, intentional process of healing. As trust cannot be rushed; may it be rebuilt through consistent, changed behavior over time rather than words alone.
Through Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen."
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Reflection - How have you seen sin affect your relationships
Source (book): "In The Beginning", Tracing The Gospel Story In Genesis, Chapter 4, "The Fall and the Fallout (Genesis 3:14-24)", Question 1, "How have you seen sin affect your relationships", Page 38.
By Robert M. Solomon, Bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore from 2000 - 2012
Footnotes
¹⁴ C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Holland, OH: Dreamscape Media, 2018), 25.
¹⁵ See Susan Foh, "What is the Woman's Desire?" Westminster Theological Journal, 37(1975): 376-383.
¹⁶ Daniel Block, "Marriage and Family in Ancient Israel," 65. Block observes that the "normative Israelite view of 'headship' . . . always placed the well-being of those under the leader's authority ahead of the leader's own well-being."
¹⁷ See Ben Witherington, Women and the Genesis of Christianity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 156.
¹⁸ John Piper, This Momentary Marriage, p. 84. Piper defines the headship of the husband as "the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home."
¹⁹ Warren W. Wiersbe, Wiersbe's Expository Outlines, 21.
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"Finding rest for the soul" Responding to Jesus' Invitation in Matthew 11:28-29, © 2016 by Robert M. Solomon
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"Making All Things New", 52 Reflections to Challenge the Way You Live, Copyright @ 2022 by Robert M. Solomon
Reflection - Making All Things New, Chapter 29 - 52 (Links), posted on Saturday, 15 March 2025
https://veryfatoldman.blogspot.com/2025/03/reflection-making-all-things-new.html
Reflection - My Soul Thirsts For God, Verse 1 - 46 (Links) on Monday, 25 August 2025
https://veryfatoldman.blogspot.com/2025/08/reflection-my-soul-thirsts-for-god.html
Reflection - My Soul Thirsts For God, Verse 47 - 92 (Links) on Tuesday, 27 January 2026
https://veryfatoldman.blogspot.com/2026/01/reflection-my-soul-thirsts-for-god.html
Reference
[1] From "In The Beginning", Tracing The Gospel Story In Genesis, Copyright @ 2009 by Robert M. Solomon, Chapter 4, "The Fall and the Fallout (Genesis 3:14-24)", Question 1, "How have you seen sin affect your relationships", Page 38.
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