Genesis 3:15 is known as the protoevangelium, the first good news. One evidence that Adam believed this good news comes in his response to God’s curse and promise. “The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living” (Gen. 3:20). Eve has not yet borne children, and she has just been implicitly included in the curse justly delivered upon the human race–dust would return to dust. Spiritual death happened the day Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and physical death would follow. But in the meantime the seed of the woman would live under God’s blessing, bringing life to the world. “Eve” is taken from the word for life or living, and Adam calls her this “because she was the mother of all the living.” Even though life hadn’t come through her yet, the perfect tense is used, a prophetic perfect used by faith to indicate what would surely come to pass. In a chapter when Adam got a lot of things wrong, here he gets something right: naming, believing and praising his wife because of the sure promise of God.