Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 1 | FOUNDATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN MISSION: VISION AND BIBLICAL FOUNDATION / 377

2. The source of his rebellion was envy toward God as a result of pride, Isa. 14.12-15.

3. His extraordinary beauty and glory caused him to rebel against the authority of God, Ezek. 28.12-18.

4. This spiritual rebellion is the root and cause of all other forms of rebellion among human beings today, 1 John 5.19.

C. The Fall as humankind’s participation in the rebellion of the spheres: pride, lust, and greed, Gen. 3.1-7

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1. Temptation and disobedience: Eve and the serpent, 2 Cor. 11.2

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2. The loss of freedom: the entrance of sin and satanic bondage

3. The absence of wholeness: the inauguration of sickness and reality of death

4. The end of justice: the brokenness and fragmentation of human relationships

D. The protoevangelium : the first telling of the Gospel, Gen. 3.15

1. God will place hostility between the serpent’s seed and the Seed of the woman.

2. The Seed of the woman will crush the head of the serpent.