Brainstorm with a neighbor a list of characteristics of Adam and Eve’s existence before the Original Sin [or before the Fall].
Handout and then compare the Original Justice to the Circle Map. What was similar? What were you missing?
Read the excerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding Original Sin and answer the accompanying focus questions.
will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; They will strike at your head, while you strike at their heel.
Genesis 3:15
The Church calls this passage the Protoevangelium, which means, “the first Gospel.” In this passage, which is part of God’s speaking to the serpent after his temptation of Adam and Eve, we understand God to be promising us salvation from sin.
The word enmity means “hatred.” How do we see hatred between the descendants of the woman and the descendants of the serpent?
How can we understand the prophecy by God that a descendant of the woman (specifically, Jesus) will crush the head of the serpent, as a promise of salvation?