God's Grace to Adam and Eve
Sometimes it does make some people wonder why God still gave a second chance to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3. Well as said, Adam and Eve's sin blew it and the world fell with it. It looks very unjust that God didn't obliterate Adam and Eve for eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Instead, He searched for them and wanted to give them a second chance even if He as a just Judge, would kick them out of Eden for their sin. One has to realize that Adam and Eve both humbled themselves before the LORD when they accepted the garments made from animal skin to pay for the penalty of their sins. That sacrifice done by the skins of animals showed that one day, a great sacrifice for sins was about to happen. It was a reminder that the wages of sin is death yet God gives eternal life. That was just the first symbolism of what salvation is- God's free gift to man!
Even if the Tree of Life was no longer accessible (which would prevent wicked people from living forever), He promised a life far better than this dreadful Earth- He promised them a Savior that would crush the head of the serpent. This Savior is none other than Jesus Christ who will grant eternal life to all who BELIEVE ON HIM an damnation to those who REJECT HIM (John 3:16-20). Would have God obliterated Adam and Eve for disobedience and recreate man again, He would be absent of mercy and grace. God is a just God but He also has mercy to which the Lord Jesus Christ became the Savior of man from their sins.
In fact, Adam and Eve was shown mercy that when Cain killed Abel, God gave them Seth who continued the legacy that Abel left behind. It was from Seth's line the godly race which however was tainted in intermarriage with the Cainite women. However God showed mercy upon Noah the grandson of Methuselah, another Sethite to where the ark became a picture of salvation. And out from Noah came Shem, from Shem down to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Judah, then from Judah down to Salmon (who married Rahab), Boaz (son of Salmon and Rahab, he became Ruth's second husband), Obed then to David to where eventually the human line of Jesus' genealogy would emerge from!
Even if the Tree of Life was no longer accessible (which would prevent wicked people from living forever), He promised a life far better than this dreadful Earth- He promised them a Savior that would crush the head of the serpent. This Savior is none other than Jesus Christ who will grant eternal life to all who BELIEVE ON HIM an damnation to those who REJECT HIM (John 3:16-20). Would have God obliterated Adam and Eve for disobedience and recreate man again, He would be absent of mercy and grace. God is a just God but He also has mercy to which the Lord Jesus Christ became the Savior of man from their sins.
In fact, Adam and Eve was shown mercy that when Cain killed Abel, God gave them Seth who continued the legacy that Abel left behind. It was from Seth's line the godly race which however was tainted in intermarriage with the Cainite women. However God showed mercy upon Noah the grandson of Methuselah, another Sethite to where the ark became a picture of salvation. And out from Noah came Shem, from Shem down to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Judah, then from Judah down to Salmon (who married Rahab), Boaz (son of Salmon and Rahab, he became Ruth's second husband), Obed then to David to where eventually the human line of Jesus' genealogy would emerge from!