1) Mankind has been made in the "image of God." This is perhaps one of the most significant claims that the Bible makes regarding mankind. What do you think being made "in the image of God" entails? How was that significant to Adam and Eve then, and to us today?
2) We see that in Genesis 2-3 mankind was created to have a special relationship with God, but because of sin that relationship was lost. This isn't so much a question as something to note--the Bible is a story of restoring this relationship between God and man.
3) What was so wrong about Eve's sin? Spend some time thinking about what sin actually is, and what the fundamental problem with it is.
4) What is with the curses God proclaims after Adam and Eve sin?
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1. Well, when I first think of made in the ‘image of God’ I don’t personally think the bible is referring to a physical resemblance. Since I don’t think God himself is really in any form that our minds can fully image or truly put down on paper to see with our own eyes. No I think to me what it means to be made in the image of god is more relating to with human beings and thought as well as feeling. Even though to some small degree animals have a sense of though and feeling, it doesn’t even scratch the surface to the level that humanity as a whole has. The way we can think and mold our ideas about the world around us is both a gift and a curse at times.
2. I’m not really sure how to answer this question myself to be honest.
3. I think the first act of Eve sin was the very though of doing the action in it of itself. With the thought alone of eating the forbidden fruit already now planted in her head would inevitably corrupt her innocents. Also sin itself is anything that takes us out of God light and soils our walk with him.
4. For Eve’s curse God made her to been in pain when giving birth to children and Adam’s curse to make him toil in the fields. Both were made in an effort for mankind to work their way back to having a closer walk with God.
To respond to your answer for question #3, Adam and Eve are judged for eating the fruit, not thinking about eating the fruit. Their being tempted was not the sin, the act was sin. Jesus was tempted, and he surely knew and thought what would have happened if he did sin, but he did not sin.
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