Was the Garden of Eden, literally Heaven on Earth? Was the Earth already fallen except for the Garden?

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And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground

It doesn't say "created". God is free to form Adam from fallen ground.

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When you're ready to learn, here's what the word actually means:

VERB
exalt (verb) · exalts (third person present) · exalted (past tense) · exalted (past participle) · exalting (present participle)
  1. hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
    "the party will continue to exalt its hero"
    synonyms:
    glorify · extol · praise · acclaim · pay homage to · pay tribute to · revere · reverence · venerate · worship · hero-worship · lionize · idolize · deify · esteem · hold in high regard · hold in high esteem · hold in awe · look up to · put on a pedestal · laud · magnify
Proof that man in this earth has no idea, they said "glorify" is a synonym. They have no idea what glorify means, which is why they think you can Glorify GOD. It is a height of ignorance. That is why i said, was it GOD, or any of HIS Prophets that wrote the dictionary?
 

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Proof that man in this earth has no idea, they said "glorify" is a synonym. They have no idea what glorify means, which is why they think you can Glorify GOD. It is a height of ignorance. That is why i said, was it GOD, or any of HIS Prophets that wrote the dictionary?
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1 Corinthians 15:
45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.

Was the heavenly man, Jesus ..or the first Adam to have a soul?
 
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Clearly, you don't understand how to use a dictionary.
Clearly, you do not understand what happened really in that genesis story, and you have condemned the Man that fathered the mankind Race, the Man whose body was coupled by the Most Holy Hands of GOD. The first Man, whom GOD said: And GOD saw that it was very good.

The level of ignorance that "christians" display, regarding the very Adam, and Eve, who were the whole reason why Procreation is possible is embarrassing. Lies about them have bastardized the human race. I know my fathers, I acknowledge their great works, and I know where they rank in the kingdom. Therefore, I proudly acknowledge my fathers, who were sent before me, who are greater than me, that were given a monumental task to complete,. and did so. And i will not cease to acknowledge their great works.
 

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Clearly, you do not understand what happened really in that genesis story, and you have condemned the Man that fathered the mankind Race
Yawn.

The level of ignorance that "christians" display, regarding the very Adam, and Eve, who were the whole reason why Procreation is possible is embarrassing.
The level of ignorance you display is astounding. Adam and Eve did not make procreation possible; God did.
 
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Yawn.


The level of ignorance you display is astounding. Adam and Eve did not make procreation possible; God did.
GOD made procreation possible? So how is it that GOD called the mortal state very good? Ignorance... So you think it is very good that Man has a body that can die? If it was the same body, then why is there the Glorified state, the transfigured body that is perfect?
 
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You did ask if Satan caused the earth to be fallen when he was cast out of heaven, so I thought that was what you were referring to.

In either case, Satan hasn't yet been cast out of heaven, so the answer to that question would have to be "no".

The earth fell when Adam sinned.
Where would satin dwell If he hasn’t been cast out of heaven yet?
 
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Does God say He cursed the ground ..or was it cursed ground because Adam became fallen?

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
I wanted to know,what IYO,does It mean when GOD said to adam, cursed Is the ground for your sake,just curious?🙂
 

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Father Adam, is not exhalted by me, but by the service he did for Mankind.
How can I exhault someone that was given the mission of Creation by the GOD HIMSELF? Whose Physical body was coupled by HIS Most Holy Hands? How then can I be the one to exhault him?
I really love you, but you are turning out to be kind of... weird.
 
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Dogs and pigs and rabbits can do that much. Please tell us that this is just your way of trying to entertain us.
Do you think that the body that they had before the fall, the body that could not die, was mortal? And then do you think that the body they had could procreate? If it was so, that procreation was possible, why would GOD need to bless them and tell them to be fruitful and multiply? And then when Speaking of the Woman, HE said after the fall that now she will experience pain in child birth. Is it that before the fall she wouldn't experience that pain? If you are saying it is, then do you agree that the fall altered their body in some way?

Before you answer, the body that GOD's Hands coupled, is what they were wearing, that HE the GOD said was in HIS image and after HIS likeness. And GOD said that it was very good. Why would there be the transfigured body that is greater than that body, but that body was not the kind that GOD called Very good.

When you really look at it, GOD said that the body HE coupled for Man was greater than the earth, the water, the air, the animals, and even the Light. For it was only concerning Man that GOD said it was very good.
 

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I'm sorry. I should have exited this thread a long time ago.
 

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Do you think that the body that they had before the fall, the body that could not die, was mortal? And then do you think that the body they had could procreate? If it was so, that procreation was possible, why would GOD need to bless them and tell them to be fruitful and multiply? And then when Speaking of the Woman, HE said after the fall that now she will experience pain in child birth. Is it that before the fall she wouldn't experience that pain? If you are saying it is, then do you agree that the fall altered their body in some way?

Before you answer, the body that GOD's Hands coupled, is what they were wearing, that HE the GOD said was in HIS image and after HIS likeness. And GOD said that it was very good. Why would there be the transfigured body that is greater than that body, but that body was not the kind that GOD called Very good.

When you really look at it, GOD said that the body HE coupled for Man was greater than the earth, the water, the air, the animals, and even the Light. For it was only concerning Man that GOD said it was very good.
Methinks you don't understand the meaning of the word, "coupled" either.