Man rejects his position as representative of God, choosing to represent the serpent through his ‘lie.’ The man and the woman have now believed the “lie.” That is they are now “seeds” of the serpent or imitators of him. They now, deserving of the sentence of death (as God defines it), will represent the serpent since they can do nothing else, having now been given a character (lust) that is the source of self-centered thinking. They are “dead10” at this point, not having any ability to represent God from their depraved character.

The roles are totally reversed now. Satan, through the serpent, rules over the woman and the man who now have created God in their own image (which makes him a god of their imagination, not of revelation, and thus as evil as they are). Their god has become subject to the desires of their imagination (value system). He will become the imaginary god of human wisdom that serves their lusts.

God now enters the scene. What will He do with regard to His now fallen creation? What will He do with the man and woman that He had created? What will death look like? But most of all, what will He do to correct the fact that an enemy has appeared and turned the object of His love, His creation, against Him?