Fruit and a creature
This is the kind of fruit Genesis says Adam and Eve ate
What is the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
This is the name of the garden where the first humans live.
What is the Garden of Eden?
This person eats the fruit first and then gives some to their spouse.
Who is Eve?
This is the question God asks Adam after he hides in the garden.
What is “Where are you?”
This Hebrew word for “ground” is related to the name Adam.
What is adamah?
This crafty creature speaks to Eve in the Garden of Eden.
What is the serpent?
Before the woman is created, Adam does this with the animals.
What is give them names?
According to Genesis 3:6, Adam was doing this when Eve ate the fruit.
What is standing next to her?
After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve realize they are this and make coverings for themselves.
What is naked?
This is where Adam and Eve go at the end of Genesis 3.
Where is outside the Garden of Eden?
Genesis 3 never explicitly identifies this figure as the serpent in the garden.
Who is Satan?
Adam and Eve use leaves from this tree to make coverings after eating the fruit.
What is a fig tree?
When God questions Adam, who does Adam ultimately blame for why he ate the forbidden fruit.
What is first he blames Eve, but ultimately he blames God?
When God comes walking in the garden and finds Adam, God asks him “Where are you?” not necessarily to find his location, but to invite him to do this.
What is come forward and talk to God?
Trust, temptation, shame, and this human behavior are all themes in the Adam and Eve story. Adam demonstrates it when he shifts responsibility to someone else.
What is blaming others?
According to the serpent, eating the fruit would give the humans this knowledge and make them more like God.
What is the knowledge of good and evil?
These are the two special trees mentioned in Genesis 2:9.
What are the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
Both eat the forbidden fruit, so Genesis 3 places the blame on who?
What is Adam and Eve?
Even after Adam and Eve disobey, God does these things instead of simply disappearing from the story.
What are lovingly seeking them out, compassionately questioning them, and generously providing clothing for them?
In ELCA theology, this describes God's continuing love and engagement with humanity, even when human beings sin.
What is Grace?
Hebrew word אָדָם in English means man
What is Adam?
The serpents ability to do what surprises Eve?
What is its ability to talk?
After eating the fruit, what did the man and woman do when God came walking in the garden?
What is HIDE!
The reason Adam hid from God when God came looking for him in the garden was because he was naked. How did God respond to Adam?
What is who told you that you were naked?
Even after Adam and Eve disobey, God seeks them out, speaks with them, and provides clothing for them. This central theological theme reminds us that God does not simply abandon humanity.
What is God's grace?