Dispensationalism: (Israel and the "Church" are separate entities) “Dispensationalism is a theological system that teaches that biblical history is best understood in light of a number of successive administrations of God's dealings with mankind, which it calls ‘dispensations.’ It maintains fundamental distinctions between God's plans for national Israel and for the New Testament Church and emphasizes prophecy of an end-times and a pre-tribulation rapture of the church prior to Christ's Second Coming. Its beginnings are usually associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement in the UK and the teachings of John Nelson Darby.” (www.theopedia.com)
Gen.3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
This is certainly true, God did most certainly say this.
Gen. 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
The serpent knows the Word of God, and used it to deceive Eve in the very beginning of the examples God had written for our admonition.
The serpent also knew it must not use "Every Word" of God because that would not have deceived, but strengthened Eve. Its goal , its job, is to deceive. And from the beginning it has used parts of God's Word to accomplish its goal.
Had Eve just trusted God enough, just had Faith in God enough to believe His Words, all of them, she would have escaped the temptation. God gave her the escape. "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
All she needed was to believe in Him, to have Faith, like Abraham.
I truly love your addition and perspective on this forum J74.
Thank you.
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