Genesis 1-3
The first words of Genesis say, “In the beginning. God created the heavens and the earth.” These two sentences convey only part of God’s magnitude of power! But they stand on their own as some of the most powerful verses of all of scripture. Meditate on them often. When the challenges of life are weighing you down. Stop and remember that God created everything that we know as a part of life and he can more than help meet all of your needs and He promises that He will. He makes His sun to rise on evil and the good and sends rain on the just and unjust. But if you follow His son He will bless you far beyond that, in this life and throughout eternity!
In the first three chapters of Genesis, with His wisdom, understanding and knowledge, God creates everything! He finishes his creation by, “...making man in his own image. In the image of God He created him; male and female he created them...” He gives them the responsibility to rule the earth and, “be fruitful and multiply…” The concept of marriage is shown by the example of man and woman. We see this declared after woman is made from part of the body of man: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” After taking six days to create light, the heavens, plants, the sun, moon and stars, birds of the air and sea creatures, all land animals, and man and woman. God takes a seventh day to rest.
Adam and Eve are the names of the first man and woman that God created. God places them in a garden and gives Adam the responsibility to tend the garden. Then God commanded Adam: “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Satan in the form of a serpent tempts Eve to disobey this command, which she does. Then she convinces Adam to do the same. These are the first two sins ever committed and it greatly displeases God and he banishes Adam and Eve from the garden and puts a curse on mankind, the earth and satan. Part of God’s curse is a prophecy that Satan's offspring and Eve’s offspring will be at war against each other and a further understanding this prophecy will reveal that God’s son Jesus will put an end to this war and the curses that God made.