And the Lord God
gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the
fruit of every tree of the garden: (Gen 2:16 BBE)
But of the fruit
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may
not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will
certainly come to you. (Gen 2:17 BBE)
God gave man a free will, because without a free will then
man could not freely love God. Man would be no more then
just an automaton. As part of that free will God instructed
man on what he should and should not do, more to protect the
man then to keep him from something. In this case eating
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
When Eve let Satan deceive her and ate that
fruit she disobeyed
Gods' order. In other words she broke God’s law. But what
about Adam, he did not disobey God until he ate the fruit
Eve gave him. I feel that Adam was not deceived but took
the fruit from Eve willingly since she was fallen and would
die, Adam did not want to be without her so he ate the fruit
and joined her in her fate. When he ate the fruit he then
disobeyed God’s law. That is what sin is, disobeying God.
It is that plain and simple.
The bible says in 1Ti 2:14 "And
it was not Adam who was deceived. It was the woman who was
deceived and became a lawbreaker".
By keeping him from eating from
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil God kept man from
understanding how to break the law (breaking the law would
be considered evil). Once man ate of that tree he
understood that God had an absolute law and that he had just
broken that law by disobeying God.
Remember God is not held by the constraints
of time such as we are, God being all knowing and all
seeing, already knew that man would disobey him. That is
why Jesus entered the world, so God and man could be
reconciled. Jesus is God in the flesh, the perfect
sacrifice because he was tempted as we are but yet he did
not break the laws of God. By keeping the entire law
perfectly he was then able to die as a perfect sacrifice, a
sacrifice that would cover mankind forever, not just for a
year as the sacrifice of a perfect lamb did.
In closing, Adam by disobeying God’s law
(sinning) was what caused sin (lawlessness) to enter the
world. Thereby cursing the world to suffering, bloodshed
and eventually death.
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