Hebrew Key Terms:
Context: Immediately follows creation account and placement in Eden. Serpent appears without introduction, suggesting prior fall (cf. Ezekiel 28:13-17; Revelation 12:9). Woman created as helper (Genesis 2:18-25); now both tempted and fall together.
Connections:
Connection Method(s): Typology (Providential, Forward-Looking), Contrast, Promise-Fulfillment — Adam's failure as image-bearer contrasts with Christ's perfect obedience as the Last Adam, while Genesis 3:15's protoevangelium promises the serpent-crushing seed fulfilled in Christ's victory over death and the devil.
Christological Connection: Where first Adam failed in garden-sanctuary, last Adam succeeds. Christ faces temptation in wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11) and Gethsemane garden (Matthew 26:36-46), but unlike Adam, He obeys perfectly. Genesis 3:15's promise of serpent-crusher finds fulfillment in Christ, who through death destroys "the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14). The trajectory shows escalation through reversal: Adam's disobedience → Christ's obedience; Adam's hiding from God → Christ's face-to-face fellowship with Father; Adam expelled from garden → Christ opens paradise to repentant thief (Luke 23:43). Romans 5:19: "as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous." Image damaged in Adam is fully restored in Christ, the perfect Image who enables our transformation "from one degree of glory to another" (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Trajectory Table: 076 - Image of God (Priestly Vocation)