Genesis, chapters 3-4

1. Genesis, chapters 3-4 “I will put enmity between you and the woman”

3. “The LORD God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.’” (Genesis 3:14-15 ESV)

4. “And God, our source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet.” (Romans 16:20 GNB)

5. “The LORD God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.’” (Genesis 3:14-15 ESV)

6. “You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father’s desires.” (John 8:44 GNB) • “Were we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon in you?” (John 8:48 GNB)

7. “We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.” (1John 3:12)

8. “I will cause hostility between you and the woman” (NLT) • “I will make you and the woman hate each other” (GNB)

11. “If anyone will take the trouble to compare the moral teaching of, say, the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Greeks and Romans, what will really strike him will be how very like they are to each other and to our own... Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.”

12. “Men have differed as regards what people you ought to be unselfish to--whether it was only your own family, or your fellow countrymen, or every one. But they have always agreed that you ought not to put yourself first. Selfishness has never been admired. Men have differed as to whether you should have one wife or four. But they have always agreed that you must not simply have any woman you liked.”

13. “There [are] two odd things about the human race. First, that they [are] haunted by the idea of a sort of behaviour they ought to practise, what you might call fair play, or decency, or morality, or the Law of Nature. Second, that they [do] not in fact do so.”

14. “If we ask: ‘Why ought I to be unselfish?’ and you reply ‘Because it is good for society,’ we may then ask, ‘Why should I care what’s good for society except when it happens to pay me personally?’ and then you will have to say, ‘Because you ought to be unselfish’ – which simply brings us back to where we started…all you are really saying is that decent behaviour is decent behaviour. You would have said just as much if you had stopped at the statement, ‘Men ought to be unselfish.”

15. “This Rule of Right and Wrong, or Law of Human Nature, or whatever you call it, must somehow or other be a real thing--a thing that is really there, not made up by ourselves… It begins to look as if we shall have to admit that there is more than one kind of reality; that…there is something above and beyond the ordinary facts of men's behaviour, and yet quite definitely real--a real law, which none of us made, but which we find pressing on us.”

19. Pride • Selfishness • Cruelty • Child abuse • Cheating • Cowardice • Gossip • Slander • Stealing

21. Conscience • “An ability or a faculty that distinguishes whether one’s actions are right or wrong.” • “The mind, acting in judgment, with the light of knowledge that it has.” • Bernard Taylor

22. “The one thing required of such servants is that they be faithful to their master. Now, I am not at all concerned about being judged by you or by any human standard; I don’t even pass judgment on myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not prove that I am really innocent. The Lord is the one who passes judgment on me. So you should not pass judgment on anyone before the right time comes. Final judgment must wait until the Lord comes; he will bring to light the dark secrets and expose the hidden purposes of people's minds.” (1 Corinthians 4:1-5 GNB)

23. Happiness is whenwhat you think,what you say,and what you doare in harmony • Gandhi

24. “Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?‘…Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe…nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”

25. “Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.” (Proverbs 4:23 GNB)

26. “The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eyes are sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eyes are no good, your body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is darkness, how terribly dark it will be!” (Matthew 6:22-23 GNB)

27. Adolph Eichmann • During the whole trial, Eichmann insisted that he was only ‘following orders’. He explicitly declared that he had abdicated his conscience…Eichmann claimed that he was merely a ‘transmitter’ with very little power. He testified that: ‘I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.’

29. “We are not to regard God as waiting to punish the sinner for his sin. The sinner brings the punishment upon himself. His own actions start a train of circumstances that bring the sure result. Every act of transgression reacts upon the sinner, works in him a change of character, and makes it more easy for him to transgress again. By choosing to sin, men separate themselves from God, cut themselves off from the channel of blessing, and the sure result is ruin and death.” Selected Messages, Book 1, p. 235

30. “This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil. Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up. But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.” (John 3:19-21 GNB)

31. “The Gentiles do not have the Law; but whenever they do by instinct what the Law commands, they are their own law, even though they do not have the Law. Their conduct shows that what the Law commands is written in their hearts. Their consciences also show that this is true, since their thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them. And so, according to the Good News I preach, this is how it will be on that Day when God through Jesus Christ will judge the secret thoughts of all.” (Romans 2:14-16 GNB)

32. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel…For in it the righteousness of God.”(Romans 1:16-17 ESV)

35. Repentence • “From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” (Matthew 4:17 NKJV) • Meta - noia • “Turn to God and change the way you think and act, because the kingdom of heaven is near.” (Matthew 3:1-2 GW)

37. “And the LORD God made clothes out of animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them.” (Genesis 3:21 GNB) • Then Abel brought the first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave the best parts of it as an offering. The LORD was pleased with Abel and his offering…” (Genesis 4:4 GNB)

38. “As it is, however, the sacrifices serve year after year to remind people of their sins.” (Hebrews 10:3 GNB)

39. “Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city.” (Ezekiel 9:4 GNB)