This is one of the more intriguing questions that can be thought about the Bible and creation. Why does evil exist? How did it appear? Why? Who did it? This subject disturbs many students and theologians. A division between the studies exists. Some affirm that God created the evil. Others deny it. We know that God did not create the sin, but allowed it to enter the world. Anyway, we know that, ultimately, God, in his sovereignty, could prevent the sin or eliminate it at the time of its sprouting. He could have destroyed Satan and his angels when they sinned. However, he did not. Therefore he has some purpose in that.

We do not have the pretension to answer satisfactorily this question but may guess that God did not destroy evil for seeing that it would be useful in some form. How could man have choice and freedom if evil was not a concrete possibility? God might have created robots, which could live with perfection eternally. However, what value would that have? The value of love is the possibility of his absence. If we are free to love and we love, this is valuable. If we were planned to love, this would not have any value. The questioning on the origin of evil and his purpose can bring discussions without end. However, let’s not forget the most important thing: to reject the evil and to choose the good (Is.1.16-17).

The Escape Of The Man

The guilty conscience dominated man as soon as the sin was committed. He started to be conscience of himself, in the most negative sense that he could have. He looked at himself and saw that he was naked. He felt the necessity to be covered, to be hidden, to escape.

The holiness covers and protects us, but the sin leaves us vulnerable. The conscience tells us to escape, to hide, to deny the mistake and to try to transfer the fault to others. So, Adam and Eva tried to hide from God (3.8), As if this was possible.

They had made insufficient investments to cover themselves (3.7).

Then Adam tried to place the fault on Eva and she on the serpent (3.12-14) that, not having whom accusing, was kept in silence.

Later, when Cain killed his brother, he also felt the impulse to escape, and wondered if he could leave the presence of God (4.14).

Many are escaping God. They avoid the church, the Bible, the gospel. Do not escape, because the Lord is everywhere. Do not run from God. Run to God.

The conscience of your own nudity was so much, that man made clothes for them. The human being is conscious of their own faults, their misery and degradation. They try then to create religions, philosophies, philanthropy, and other artifices to appease their conscience. Their clothes may even be fine, pretty, but they do not cover sin. We are able to be covered by culture, knowledge, positions, titles, fame and glory, but nothing of that clears our sin neither justifies ourselves before God.

God called the man: “Adam, where you are?” Still today He calls the man. God wants to have communion with us. He wants to forgive us and restore us. Rather than flee, the Bible encourages us to approach God (Hb.4.16) with an uncovered face (II Cor.3.18), knowing that all the things are naked and obvious before his eyes (Hb.4.13). Instead of covering our sins up or trying to launch the fault on others, we should have recognized our faults and confessed them to the Lord.

After that moment of confrontation of Adam and Eva to God, the Lord did two things: Determined the punishment for the sin and made clothes to cover the man (3.21). We see there, His justice and his compassion. Like a Father, he corrects but also He receives and welcomes. To make clothes from skins, God needed to sacrifice an animal. This was the first sacrifice for sin, symbolizing the future death of Jesus in the cross.

With all this, Adam and Eva were still expelled from Paradise.

We are a target of the divine compassion; the consequences of the sin are, normally, inevitable.
Through Christ’s sacrifice, our sins are covered in an efficient and definite way, since this is the divine method to forgive and restore us. Jesus died so that the way to the paradise could be opened. Again, for Christ’s merits, we will be able to have access to the tree of the life (Ap.2.7)

CURSES BY THE SIN - Gn. 3.14-19; 4, 11.

A Curse is to speak badly against someone. God’s word has creative power. When he promises or commands a punishment, this is called “curse”. The punishment is then a form of evil created by God. It is not about something pertaining to the Devil.

“A curse without cause will not come” (Pv.26.2). Above of all credence or superstition, a curse is, in its origin, connected with sin. Even if someone pronounces a curse, it will only take refuge in the one that is living in sin.

The curse pronounced against Adam reached the earth directly. After all, the man was made of earth and he is part of it. His work started to be laborious and painful. The curse for Eva was the multiplication of her pains of childbirth and submission to her husband. Even with the conversion, these curses remain.