Understanding God’s election
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But spiritually affects all the faculties of man. When God cut Adam off from spiritual life that impacted him entirely. And if we really dig into the post-Fall account, we can see this easily enough. For example, we can see how both A&E became walking, talking dichotomies and how self-deceived the became.
Adam was gifted like none other outside of Christ, but not after sin. Spiritually he died. His heart, mind, and will were all affected. For the first time he felt shame. At God's appearing, he experienced fear for the first time. Imagine that. Every previous experience with God had produced feelings of love, peace, and joy. Not this time. He experienced shame and fear and hid. Something had seriously changed.
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Why (rhetorical question here) do you consistently couch your questions to those who do not agree with you, as statements on things they never said?
While the Bible does not explicitly say this, why would it even be necessary in the way we understand that today? Where and how did Adam draw his first breath? Who breathed into Him life? Hey ~ we do not understand just how fallen we are and if we did we just might shut the hee haw up. No. Really.
While the Bible does not explicitly say this, why would it even be necessary in the way we understand that today? Where and how did Adam draw his first breath? Who breathed into Him life? Hey ~ we do not understand just how fallen we are and if we did we just might shut the hee haw up. No. Really.
Absolutely...for two reasons: Gen 2:7 wherein the 'breath of life" is the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is called the "breath" in various places in scripture. Secondly, logically speaking Adam had to have been spiritually alive prior to his sin, otherwise how could he have died spiritually subsequent to his sin? Does not death presuppose antecedent life?
