Tuesday, May 22, 2012

What Happened in Eden?

What happened in Eden?


Death of the body, our plants grew thorns (and who knows if mind altering drugs had an original good purpose or not) after this:


Genesis 3:17-24
New International Version (NIV)
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

God was upset by the tone of the verses it seems; we had free will, and we chose wrong. There was guilt on Adam (probably) for letting Eve wonder by herself, and on Eve herself for braking the law that was our test to prove our allegiance to God and his Angels. God drove them out of the garden to keep them from eating of the Tree of Life and gaining additional immortal attributes like those of Satan after the fact of falling in sin.

1 comment:

  1. Yes! Praise the LORD and Jesus that we can share the ONLY word of truth!

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