Yesterday in Things Unseen, I was saying how basic Genesis 315 is for our understanding of the whole

plot line of the Bible's drama. 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.

Every conflict in the Bible, big or small, is actually an unfolding of this prophecy.

If you think about it, while it was a curse, it also contained a wonderful promise to Adam

and Eve. Here they were fast bound in sin and nature's night in a condition that was

hopeless and helpless, but God was promising to intervene. Yes, there would be conflict, but one of Eve's offspring would prevail.

That must have been glorious good news for our first parents, don't you think?

But while it was good news, the promise came in a very condensed form.

Think of the famous questions newspaper reporters are supposed to ask, who, what, where,

when, how, and why. There's not much in the way of detail in Genesis 315, is there?

Of course, we now know the answers, but nobody in the Old Testament had all those answers,

least of all Adam and Eve. Remember how Peter says that the Old Testament prophets

were all asking the questions who and when, and didn't live to see the answers.

But here's a question.

Did Adam and Eve actually believe this promise?

I think they did.

That's the only answer that makes sense of Genesis chapter 4 verse 1.

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, I have gotten a man

with the help of the Lord.

If you use the English standard version and have still relatively decent eyesight, you'll be

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