Disorder Enters the World (Genesis 3)
In Genesis 2, God created a perfect world but gave humans the free will capacity to sin. In Genesis 3, Eve takes advantage of this and with Adam looking over her shoulder she gives into the temptations of an evil snake.

Genesis 3
Today's Scripture Passage
A Few Thoughts to Consider
What is sin and how did it originate?
In Genesis 2, God created a perfect world but gave humans the free will capacity to sin. In Genesis 3, Eve takes advantage of this and with Adam looking over her shoulder she gives into the temptations of an evil snake. Now, it’s here we should pause and address the obvious question. Was this snake actually real?
Some would say no, but as John Walton notes,
“Unless one is willing to consider the whole of Genesis 1–11 as myth (which I am not), the face value of the text suggests that the author wants us to believe that this event really happened. Moreover, the reality of the Fall is an essential foundation to Pauline theology, and the New Testament consistently shows it considers the events of Genesis 3 to be true, as historical realities.”[1]
Regardless of your view, Eve has a back-and-forth exchange with a serpent that tells us a lot about her mindset.
Commentator Gordon Wenham makes the following observations:
The woman corrects the snake, but not quite accurately. Whereas the Lord had said, “You may freely eat of every garden tree,” she omits “every,” saying simply, “We may eat of the fruit …” She also adopts the snake’s description of the Lord God, describing him simply as “God,” and most significantly, she adds to the ban on eating of the tree of knowledge a prohibition on even touching it “lest you die.” These slight alterations to God’s remarks suggest that the woman has already moved slightly away from God toward the serpent’s attitude.[2]
Verse 6 says, “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”
The immediate result of their sin is an emotion they had never experienced: guilt. Verse 7 says they suddenly feel the shame of being naked, and verse 8 reveals the response to this shame and guilt is to hide from God. And as a result, Adam and Eve’s bodies begin to decay, they are removed from the garden, and they and their descendants live under the curse that sin brings.
This is the power of sin. To sin is to miss the mark of God’s perfection. It is to choose chaos over order. It is to live out of sorts with how you were created to live.