{"id":7472,"date":"2016-03-22T00:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T07:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2016-03-22T00:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T07:36:46","slug":"cursed-by-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/03\/22\/cursed-by-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursed by Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>To the woman he said, <br \/>\n\u201cI will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; <br \/>\nwith pain you will give birth to children. <br \/>\nYour desire will be for your husband, <br \/>\nand he will rule over you.\u201d <br \/>\nTo Adam he said, \u201cBecause you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, \u2018You must not eat of it,\u2019 <br \/>\n\u201cCursed is the ground because of you; <br \/>\nthrough painful toil you will eat of it <br \/>\nall the days of your life. <br \/>\nIt will produce thorns and thistles for you, <br \/>\nand you will eat the plants of the field. <br \/>\nBy the sweat of your brow <br \/>\nyou will eat your food <br \/>\nuntil you return to the ground, <br \/>\nsince from it you were taken; <br \/>\nfor dust you are <br \/>\nand to dust you will return.\u201d  (Genesis 3:16-19)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two special trees stood in the Garden of Eden.  The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Sadly, Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  They believed the serpent\u2019s lie: God was holding out on them, keeping back something good.  Ever since, human beings have doubted God\u2019s intentions.<\/p>\n<p>God pronounced a series of judgments against Adam and Eve, but wrapped around the judgments, there was mercy.  Though childbirth would be painful, the woman would still want to become pregnant.  Though work would be hard, they would still be able to grow food.  And though they would die, their deaths would make their ultimate redemption possible.  <\/p>\n<p>God barred them from the Tree of Life, insuring that they would die.  Otherwise, they could have eaten and become immortal.  With such immortality would have come irredeemable.  It is only in becoming a human being and then dying that Jesus could save humanity.  If human beings had become immortal, then Jesus becoming one of them would likewise have been immortal.  If he couldn\u2019t die, then he couldn\u2019t have redeemed us.  Even in the terrible judgment of death, there was mercy and blessing.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the woman he said, \u201cI will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.\u201d To Adam he said, \u201cBecause you &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/03\/22\/cursed-by-pain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}