There is a connection between the creation of new life and the ‘good news’ of Jesus Christ. In these passages, which are placed toward the very beginning of Scripture we find two things. Firstly that the man and the woman were brought together and ‘they became one flesh’. The outcome of this was that children were created.

The second thing we find is that, after the fall into sin through the temptation by the serpent, Satan, there is a mention of the gospel … ‘he will crush your head’. This is a reference to what Jesus was coming to do on the cross. By paying the price for sin, as a substitute, all who receive what Jesus has accomplished, are blessed with ‘new life’. They are made a new creation.

At the cross we see the horror of our sins. We also see the wonder of God’s love. Everyone who turns to Jesus and receives, by the hand of faith, what he has purchased for us is ‘born again’.