First Baptist Church (FBC) Training Center – Pentateuch Practice Test

Genesis 3:15 is the protoevangelium—the first gospel. In this verse, God declares enmity between the serpent and the woman and between their offspring, signaling a coming clash where one from the woman’s line will crush the serpent’s head while the serpent will wound his heel. This sets up the earliest promise of a Savior who would defeat evil, which Christians understand as a foreshadowing of Jesus’ death and ultimate victory. So the concept tied to Genesis 3:15 is the first gospel, the initial good-news expectation of redemption. It’s not about the later Noahic covenant, the creation of Eve, or a new commandment.