it should (see Rom. 8:20–21). Nothing you have done or ever will do can begin to compare with the tragedy that Adam and Eve wrote for the rest of their descendants. But God didn’t sit back and watch the story unfold to its logical conclusion. He inserted himself into it—and, by doing so, rewrote the ending. He interposed hatred between our first fore-parents and their enemy, the Serpent—signaling that he would turn their hearts back to him—and he promised to send the Snake-Crusher so that sin and