Thursday, May 16, 2013

Fall Of Mankind

The serpent was more deceptive than any of the wild animals that God had created and decided to entice the woman in order to gain advantage over God's creation. The way in which he deceived the woman was by making her believe that she could become like God in knowing all things.

God forewarned the woman of what was to come, and told her that if she were to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil she would surely die. By the crafty scheme of the devil, the woman was enticed and deceived into believing that her eyes would be opened like God and she would know good and evil. 

You see, the fruit appeared to be good and was very pleasing to the eye, but the consequences were most severe, as God had forewarned her of what was to come. After being tempted and eating the fruit she gave some to her husband and he ate it. Therefore, the woman was responsible for misleading her husband in the same way that the serpent had mislead her.

The man and woman both realizing that they were naked hid from the Lord God as they heard Him walking in the garden in the cool of the day. 

After questioning both the man and woman as to whether or not they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God was informed by the man that the woman had given him fruit from the forbidden tree. 

The woman knowing her mistake, confessed to God. 

The Lord God then cursed the serpent and said that because you have done this, cursed are you for all the rest of your days. You will crawl on your belly and eat the dust all the days of your life. 

God then separated the offspring of the woman from the offspring of the serpent. For this is the beginning of the division that would separate the children of God from the children of the devil.

God commanded that the woman would bear children and that her husband would be the guide for her all the days of her life.

To Adam God said that for his mistake in eating from the tree, and listening to the woman who had been deceived, he would need to work in order to provide food for both he and his wife. For from dust man had been created and to dust he would eventually return, as a consequence for eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Adam then gave the name Eve to his wife, who would be the mother of the human race to come. 

For both Adam and Eve, God commanded that they were not to eat from the tree of life, which would give them eternal life. 

The Lord God cast man out of the Garden of Eden to work and to provide food for he and his wife on his own with what God had given him. 

After God drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. The flaming sword is that which holds the power of God to destroy all evil and to allow only those who choose God to obtain eternal life by the Holy Spirit and the Tree of Life, Jesus. 

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