DID GOD ABANDON MAN after Adam fell into sin?
God did not abandon man after Adam fell into sin, but promised to send into the world a Saviour to free man from sins and to reopen to him the gates of heaven. The promise o ultimate victory for man over the power of evil was included in the condemnation of the “serpent,” the symbol of this evil power. The condemnation included these words, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed; He shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for his heel” (Gen. 3:15). This passage is called the “First Gospel,” the first “good news” to a fallen mankind. The tempter’s victory was only a temporary one. Man would succeed in resisting the temptations of the devil frequently throughout the ages. but the devil would endure a crowning defeat through Him who would be, in a special way, the “seed of the woman,” Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Mary. The human author of this passage did not realize the full significance of these words. But the divine Author w
