I’m preaching on Genesis 3 this Sunday at church.
In Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ my favourite scene is in the Garden of Gethsemene. A creepy white serpent is crushed underfoot by Jesus. I jumped like a little girl! The scene isn’t actually in the Gospel accounts but is imaginatively taken from Genesis 3.15 where God tells the Serpent that a descendant of Eve will crush his head while he strikes his heel.
What about Romans 16.20 though: ” the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet”? Is Paul still thinking of Isaiah 52.7 “How beautiful are the feet of him who brings good news” which he quotes in Romans 10.15.
Genesis 3 is a tragic scene. Paradise lost. But the promise to crush the serpent is supposed to give us hope. God will not let his creation go. At the greatest cost he will save it.
