oletafive
Rattan, OK
age: 60
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The Book of Genesis is not just a historical episodic event. The Book of Genesis is the beginning of our relationship with God. It is a lesson outlining what God expects of us and the consequences of disobedience. It has the first event which is Woman disobeying God then beguiling her man into sharing the guilt. After all this time Man still has not learned to trust in God and not the woman.
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suzydoll
Cheneyville, LA
age: 62
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Adam and Eve did not sin simply as private persons, but as the representatives of all members of the human race. Their sin is the sin of all; and all persons receive from them a corrupt nature. It is this nature that stands behind all personal violations of the Lord's commandments. For this reason, the fall of Adam is the fall of the human race.
God breathed into Adam's body of "dust" the divine "breath of life; and man became a living being" (Gen. 2:7) God made man in his own image and likeness. The apostle Paul interprets this to mean that God created man with spiritual, rational, emotional, and moral qualities (Eph. 4:24-32; Col. 3:8-10) God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden where he was to work the ground and take care of the animals (Gen. 2:5) Adam was lonely and desired to have a "helper". God heard Adam and made Eve as a "helper comparable to" Adam (Gen. 2:20) Creating her out of one of Adam's ribs so they were "one flesh" (Gen. 2:24)
Genesis 3 tells us how Adam/Eve failed to keep God's command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The consequences of this disobedience was death (Gen.2:17), both physical (gen 5:5) and spiritual (Eph. 2:1).
Eve disobeyed first when Satan approached her through the Serpent who tempted her to eat of the forbidden fruit. Satan called into question the truthfulness of what God had spoken about the tree and its significance. He urged Eve to discover through trial and error whether it was in her best interest to do what God had forbidden.
Eve's sin did not consist of "being tempted", but in believing and acting on Satan's lie. Her rejection of God's command occurred when she ate of the forbidden fruit and persuaded her husband to do the same thing. The term Fall/Disobedience/Rebellion should not be interpreted to suggest that their sin was accidental. The temptation was purposeful, and their submission to it involved their willing consent.
The immediate consequence of Their disobedience was death, symbolized by their loss of fellowship with God. For the first time, Adam and Eve experienced fear in the presence of the Lord God; and they hid when he approached (Gen.3:8-10). Because of their unbelief and rebellion, they were driven from the garden that God had provided as their home. From that time on man would experience pain and encounter resistance as he worked at the task of earning his daily bread. Physical death, with the decay of the body, is not a natural process. It entered the human experience as God's curse upon Sin.
consequences of their disobedience were:
(1) loss of innocence (Gen. 3:7)
(2) Continued enmity between the seed of the woman (Christ) (Gen. 3:15; Gal. 3:16) and the seed of the serpent (Satan and his followers) (John 8:44)
(3) The cursing of the ground and the resulting hard labor for man (Gen. 3:17-19)
(4) The hard labor of childbirth (Gen. 3:16)
(5) The submission of woman to her hus
The First Man, Adam lived 830 years (Gen. 5:5) as commanded by God to "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth (Gen. 1:28) they had a number of children: Cain, Abel, Seth and a number of other sons and daughters (Gen. 4:1-2; 5:3-4)
Did God know prior to creating man that man would be disobedient in following his command to not eat of the fruit?
If God did know that man would be disobedient what plan did God have to save his creation?
The New Testament emphasizes the oneness of Adam and Eve (Matt. 19:3-9) showing that Adam represented man in bringing the human race into sin and death (Rom. 5:12-19; 1 Cor. 15:22).
In contrast, Christ, the "Last Adam", represented His redeemed people in bringing justification and eternal life to them (Rom. 5:15-21)
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