loss of earthly immortality. Humanity would now need to be redeemed to have eternal life with God in a new Eden. The fallout (pun intended) was a series of curses. The curse upon the Serpent included a bit of prophecy. God said Eve’s offspring and that of the Serpent would be at odds: “Then Yahweh God said to the serpent … I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspring and between her offspring” (Gen. 3:14–15 LEB). Who are Eve’s offspring? Humanity. And who are
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