greatblue,
i failed to answer all yourquestions so i'm posting again.
The way i see, GOD made the Earth to be inhabited by man, whom was created perfect in the image and after the likeness of the LORD GOD, which are man and light, respectively. And Adam was given the Garden and the Commandment by which he had the promise of a perpetual (eternally if necessary) for obedience to it. Quite simply though, sin began in the mind of Adam when he first considered that maybe GOD was not totally honest concerning a 'sure death'.
Consider: there were only two trees in the center of the Garden, one Adam could freely eat from, and one he could not; but, since the two trees are both the Tree of Life (Gen2:9, Rev 22:2), and they both bare the same fruit, Adam wondered why he could eat from the one, but not the other, and eating from that one would cause death (he assumed the 'sure death' was a physical death). So he thought maybe GOD did not want him to have that knowledge provide by the fruit because it would make him just like GOD. The five 'I wills' of lucifer clearly suggest that he had yet to accomplish that which he planned to do, but he truly thought it was going to happen. How? By eating the forbidden fruit, just as he told Eve she would be if she ate the fruit. But the only knowledge Adam gained from eating the fruit was the knowledge that he had just sinned, which is the knowledge of evil, aka a guilty conscience. (as long as he came to the center of the Garden but did not eat the forbidden fruit, he had the knowledge of good, aka a clear conscience.) So sin began in the mind of Adam, and it was carried out in his deception of his wife, Eve. It is for this reason that Jesus came not only to save us from the sins we commit, but also to save us from an evil mind, where sin begins. Is it not written that to have thought it is the same as if you had done it already? Then Jesus can keep even our minds from evil thinking, which leads to sinful actions or words.
Adam made the mistake of thinking he was already eternal (pride) because he was told that the only way he could die was to eat the forbidden fruit. He did not know that his eternal life was dependent upon his being able to eat from the Tree of Life because he did not know that that was its name. Thus his pride led to corrupted thinking about what was and what wasn't true.
i failed to answer all yourquestions so i'm posting again.
The way i see, GOD made the Earth to be inhabited by man, whom was created perfect in the image and after the likeness of the LORD GOD, which are man and light, respectively. And Adam was given the Garden and the Commandment by which he had the promise of a perpetual (eternally if necessary) for obedience to it. Quite simply though, sin began in the mind of Adam when he first considered that maybe GOD was not totally honest concerning a 'sure death'.
Consider: there were only two trees in the center of the Garden, one Adam could freely eat from, and one he could not; but, since the two trees are both the Tree of Life (Gen2:9, Rev 22:2), and they both bare the same fruit, Adam wondered why he could eat from the one, but not the other, and eating from that one would cause death (he assumed the 'sure death' was a physical death). So he thought maybe GOD did not want him to have that knowledge provide by the fruit because it would make him just like GOD. The five 'I wills' of lucifer clearly suggest that he had yet to accomplish that which he planned to do, but he truly thought it was going to happen. How? By eating the forbidden fruit, just as he told Eve she would be if she ate the fruit. But the only knowledge Adam gained from eating the fruit was the knowledge that he had just sinned, which is the knowledge of evil, aka a guilty conscience. (as long as he came to the center of the Garden but did not eat the forbidden fruit, he had the knowledge of good, aka a clear conscience.) So sin began in the mind of Adam, and it was carried out in his deception of his wife, Eve. It is for this reason that Jesus came not only to save us from the sins we commit, but also to save us from an evil mind, where sin begins. Is it not written that to have thought it is the same as if you had done it already? Then Jesus can keep even our minds from evil thinking, which leads to sinful actions or words.
Adam made the mistake of thinking he was already eternal (pride) because he was told that the only way he could die was to eat the forbidden fruit. He did not know that his eternal life was dependent upon his being able to eat from the Tree of Life because he did not know that that was its name. Thus his pride led to corrupted thinking about what was and what wasn't true.
