Genesis 3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Before the fall, Genesis chapter 3 begins with the words of the serpent, “Yea, hath God said…?” After the fall, the first recorded words of God are “Where art thou?”[i] This word of God succintly sums up a stable scriptural soteriology (theology of salvation).
- God seeks the sinner.
- Verse 8 … the Lord God walking … and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God…
- God declares his condemnation.
- Verse 19 … dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- God calls for his confession.
- Verse 9 … Where art thou?
- God provides for his redemption.
- Verse 15 … her seed…shall bruise thy head
- God works his restoration.
- Verse 21 … the Lord God…clothed them.
[i] It is interesting how languages work. In the Hebrew language this question is one word (אַיֶּכָּה) which we transliterate as 'ay. In the English language it is three words. Not to try to find too much that isn’t there, but how intriguing that this works to combine “three in one.”
No comments:
Post a Comment