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Amen, and I am overjoyed.
Sometimes when we come under conviction we fight very hard, then there is that moment when we see.
I prayed you would be strong in the Lord and resist people like @DorothyMae who is daily revealing herself and not for the good.
Yes we can pray for her, but she is not someone we want to encourage.
You will find diverse beliefs here, but I think you chose two good teachers for yourself and that is very important.
At the age of twenty one when I was born again I was blessed to have someone who taught me so much through regular bible study and to this day I still am so thankful for that.
One thing he always stressed was to test the spirits to see they are from God and see if what they teach lines up with scripture.. it is very important.
Sometimes when we come under conviction we fight very hard, then there is that moment when we see.
I prayed you would be strong in the Lord and resist people like @DorothyMae who is daily revealing herself and not for the good.
Yes we can pray for her, but she is not someone we want to encourage.
You will find diverse beliefs here, but I think you chose two good teachers for yourself and that is very important.
At the age of twenty one when I was born again I was blessed to have someone who taught me so much through regular bible study and to this day I still am so thankful for that.
One thing he always stressed was to test the spirits to see they are from God and see if what they teach lines up with scripture.. it is very important.
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I never said they were perfect 
and the word GOOD applied unto creation, including man does not mean good in the sense of how we use the word...it carried the idea of being usable or acceptable for the designed purpose....and it is directed at the over all creation including man....but in the essence of GOOD as we view it...it is not applied.
and the word GOOD applied unto creation, including man does not mean good in the sense of how we use the word...it carried the idea of being usable or acceptable for the designed purpose....and it is directed at the over all creation including man....but in the essence of GOOD as we view it...it is not applied.-
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I also want to add....they had access to every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil....YES they were banned from it after they fell by deception and sin....we do not know how long they were in the garden before the fall nor can we say with any accuracy that they did or did not eat from the tree of life before the fall. Before the fall they had permission to eat from every tree except one.
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Yes, and we are told the reason why they were NOT allowed to eat from the Tree of Life after the fall, because if they did? The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” Because they would live forever if they had. Notice the "take also." They had not yet, nor were they immortal. Satan lied to Eve, in telling her “You will not certainly die,” and she was deceived.