Adam, Us & the Plan of God (Genesis 1 - 5)

1. Man was made by God (1:26), in the image of God (1:27), for the purpose of spreading the glory of God in all the earth (1:28).
2. God gave man the breath of life (2:7), a place to reside (2:8-14), a work to do (2:15), an exception to guard (2:16-17), and a wife to cherish (2:18-25), so that he could live a soul-satisfied, joy-filled, God-honoring life (ch.1 & 2).
3. Man sat passively by while his wife (family) was under attack (3:1-6a), he fell drastically low when he was faced with his sin (3:6b), he tried horribly wrong to cover his sin when he knew that he'd fallen (3:7), he hid quietly away when confronted with his disobedience (3:8-10), and he blamed, incorrectly so, the reason for his fall (3:11-12), so that every person after him would be born into sin and condemned by their sin (3:17-19 & Romans 5).
4. God punished for Adam's sin (3:17-19), provided for Adam's forgiveness (3:21), banished from Adam's home (3:23a), gave a continuation to Adam's task (3:23b, 4:1-2a, 4:25 & 5:1-5), in order to maintain His own holiness and to demonstrate His own grace (Romans 5).