We need to take another look at The Garden of Eden

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"Jesus was crucified during the time that the Passover was observed (Mark 14:12)." !!!

Mar 14:12
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?

// So has your conscience changed at all?

Heb 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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the tree of knowledge is sin slavery (Egypt) ...do you think CHRIST'S Cross might be involved with it?

The Passover Lamb!!!


John 1:29
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Jesus was crucified so that you can be crucified with Him dying to your affections and lusts! You know ...intentions from the wicked tree?

Gal 5:24
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
 

posthuman

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The Word calls Lot righteous, yet you oppose the witness of the Word and call him a sinner:
i in fact stated, Lot is called righteous.
where do you suppose i got that idea?
from God's own word. and it is true.
what, did you think i doubt it?? i am the one who affirmed it!

since you have taken my statement out of the context of its conversation, let me remind you of it:
OJ was giving the perspective that no one who is righteous can ever sin, ever.
so i gave Lot as a counterexample to his view.
Lot is righteous; Lot sins.

go read the account -- Lot struggles against the angels at every step of the way, arguing with them to try to get out of what they are commanding him to do. they purpose to stay in the square; he argues. they tell him to go to his sons and daughters; he only goes to the husbands of his daughters. he goes out and offers his unmarried daughters to the ravenous mob, & they have to pull him back into his house. they tell him to leave, he hesitates, turning back, so that they have to grab him by the hand and drag him out of Sodom. they tell him to go to the mountains, he makes excuses and pleads to go instead to one of the wicked cities of the plain that was to be destroyed.

tell me all about how all of these actions are blameless?
tell me about how Lot looking back, having to be physically dragged out of Sodom by angels because he hesitated to go, is without sin? show me where Lot is ever called sinless?

better yet -- tell me why Lot is called righteous?

no; i suspect you will not tell me, but i will tell you: exactly what scripture says:
he was vexed by the wickedness in the city he chose to call home and chose to remain in and hesitated to leave.
Peter doesn't say Lot is righteous because of his works.

Lot is called righteous because of the thoughts of his heart.
 

posthuman

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...intentions from the wicked tree?
intending to eat the fruit is wicked
therefore Woman had wicked intent before she ate the fruit
ergo your position is false:
to wit, God did not create wickedness and call it good.

QED
 
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intending to eat the fruit is wicked
therefore Woman had wicked intent before she ate the fruit
ergo your position is false:
to wit, God did not create wickedness and call it good.


QED
So your position is that eating from the tree of knowledge isn't wicked ...ohhh ok.

Wait, you actually bring up a good point about INTENTIONS ...you know, what i'm screaming is spirit?

the tree of intentions to die.
 
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Someone Intended to commit adultery! Their spirit Intended (sin/death) to use the tree of knowledge of good and evil.


but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5:27-28‬ ‭KJV‬‬



Pro 16:9
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.


If your heart's intention (spirit) is to be for yourself (soul) instead of GOD, you worship death ...self-idolatry ...pride ...the beast spirit.
Biblical Love is about your heart's intention ...not animal like the carnal mind knows about.
 

Mem

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Methinks he's finally starting to understand.

(not really, but one can hope)

I wonder if he is this thoroughly insufferable in real life.
I thought I was the only one that noticed :/

"To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often." -Winston Churchill
 
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The NT/New Covenant is all about heart (spirit) ...so that means the view of The Garden changed also. We don't even need to "eat" the fruit of that tree anymore ...we are dead just intending to. spirit/heart = intentions.

The Law of sin and death was about the tree of flesh death because if you didn't follow the flesh Law ...you were "eating" from that tree.

The Law of The Spirit of Life in CHRIST JESUS is about being Guided away from the tree of intentions to die.

Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Do you really think this was about a literal tree? "pleasant to the eyes" what? GOD was obviously telling about spiritual temptation.

Gen 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
 
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satan was offering a shortcut to The Plan of SALVATION with his way via wicked intentions. So satan didn't change the "tree" itself, he was offering lies about it. Our intentions can be attempting to use his lies.

You all are familiar with one shortcut lie called "hyper grace". And sin as much as you want as long as you declare how big of a sinner you are.

the way to wicked intentions instead of The Way to Righteous Intentions.
 
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Whoops, Our intentions can not be attempting to use his lies if we are Children of GOD.

Adam and Eve had The Law of "don't sin" because that is the same as not letting satan tempt (shortcut) you into "eating" from the tree of knowledge.
 
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Your M.O. has been to sin as much as you want as long as you declare how big of a sinner others are.
From your view, do you read the following and think your conscience has been purged from dead works? How can you with willful sin in your life? it's getting more and more infuriating trying to talk to dead spirits.

Heb 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

or how about this ...do you think you don't have affections and lusts anymore?

Gal 5:24
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
 
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satan's lies are larger than individual sins. They are false doctrines excusing your repeated willful sin.

There are millions not picking up their cross because they went looking for an excuse to keep their fallen lives.

This kind of thinking says you don't really believe in the Infinite Afterlife because you want your "best life now".
 

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it's getting more and more infuriating trying to talk to dead spirits.
Still waiting for that list of sins you repeatedly insist are in my life.

You've had since yesterday morning to compile it.

What's taking you so long???
 

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Do you really think this was about a literal tree? "pleasant to the eyes" what?
you don't think trees can be pretty??
wow

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

- Joyce Kilmer
 

posthuman

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So satan didn't change the "tree" itself, he was offering lies about it.
oh good!
i think now, finally we all agree Satan did not '
change the tree'
((you were the last holdout))

((ok the only one))

God made the tree. God planted it in the garden. God looked at all He had made, and said, 'good'

so i really think you should stop calling the tree wicked.
it's a bit of an affront to God - wouldn't you agree that calling evil what God calls good is a sin?
so if you go on doing it, after this point . . .


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oh good!
i think now, finally we all agree Satan did not '
change the tree'
((you were the last holdout))
((ok the only one))


God made the tree. God planted it in the garden. God looked at all He had made, and said, 'good'

so i really think you should stop calling the tree wicked.
it's a bit of an affront to God - wouldn't you agree that calling evil what God calls good is a sin?
so if you go on doing it, after this point . . .


:p
"eating" from that tree is about making your own definitions for good and evil ...you still want to be about a literal tree ...sorry ...no.

You made your own definition of who gets to be Saved ...because you want to continue to do repeated willful sin.
 

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"eating" from that tree is about making your own definitions for good and evil ...you still want to be about a literal tree ...sorry ...no.
God's the one who calls it a tree. we believe God.
so you are the one who is making up your own definitions.
it is demonstrated for 33 pages now, by many witnesses.



You made your own definition of who gets to be Saved ...because you want to continue to do repeated willful sin.
also for 33 pages you have been baselessly accusing everyone who speaks to you.
despite gentle correction, despite direct correction. you do not have the excuse of being unaware.
so it is also demonstrated who it is that is that is willfully & continually practicing sin.


You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
(Exodus 20:16)
i am sorry, friend, that you destroyed your credibility here so quickly.
a good name is worth more than many riches.
you can regain it i am sure if you repent - we are not '
out to get you'


i really think if you were to apologize, and stop all this evil accusation,
you might still be able to actually have some discussion.
so that your time with us might be useful for something


i am ashamed that you think your behaviour is appropriate :(
 
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