When and to whom was the Savior first promised?<\/p>\n\t
“So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust All the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”<\/em>” (Genesis 3:14-15).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: When and to whom was the Savior first promised? Answer: “So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust All the days of your…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[73,648,169],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-jesus","tag-promises","tag-prophecy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89917,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bruised\/","url_meta":{"origin":12146,"position":0},"title":"Bruised","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton \"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel\" (Genesis 3:15). 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