The following Bible Study of Genesis 3 is designed to accompany my NEW BOOK “Once Upon a Curse” which explores these very same questions. In the following eight weeks we will take a closer look at each portion of the curse given in God’s Word.
Own Your Curse: Week 1
Week 1 exposes problems with the broken world outside and our dark desires on the inside. This is an introduction to the curses we meet in God’s creation story: the same curses that we have all struggled with from the beginning.
Lies of Freedom: Week 2
Week 2 uncovers our lack of freedom and our constant striving towards it. We will specifically look at the curse proclaimed upon the serpent from the mouth of God.
Children are Painful: Week 3
This week we expose the challenges with children, bad parents, our sinful will, and the lack of childbearing. This is an emotional deep-dive into the first half of the curse proclaimed to the woman.
What is Love: Week 4
Week 4 explores misunderstandings surrounding the action and emotion of love. Here, the curse proclaimed to woman hints at the relationship struggles that every single person experiences.
Unearned Thorns: Week 5
Depression and disappointment peaks when life doesn’t go as planned, especially when our meaning and purpose hangs in the balance. Today we will consider the ramifications of the curse proclaimed to the man.
More Than You Can Handle: Week 6
Death and aloneness, temptation and suffering is not outside our everyday experience, as much as we want to hide and ignore it. This study comes face to face with the ultimate enemy, declared by God, in the curse to the man.
Wisdom, Not What You Thought: Week 7
Disillusionment comes from a prideful understanding of wisdom. This is the consequence of a cursed world, and a separation from the tree of life. However wisdom is restored in the one true Tree of Life.
The Only Thing That Matters: Week 8
The solution to all of the curses lies outside of ourselves: only in the safety of God’s promise: Christ.
Cindy Koch 