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'And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there He put the man whom He had formed.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. '
(Gen 2:8-9)
'And the LORD God took the man,
and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'
(Gen 2:15-17)
Hello there,
This portion of Scripture is one that I keep needing to come back to: I am drawn to consider the difference between what was spoken by God to Adam, and the way that Eve misused it, for I believe that it is important to see both the weakness of the woman, whom we are told in 2 Corinthians 11:3, was beguiled through the serpent's subtilty: Opening Eve's mind to corruption: Corruption from the simplicity of God's one and only commandment to Adam and his wife Eve, concerning the trees of the field and their use. Also to see how incorrectly using the word of God in her replies to the serpent laid her open to this deception, and denied her the protection of God's spoken word as a defence against him.
* When God spoke to Adam concerning the trees, His first words expressed the freedom they had to eat of every tree of the garden, and only then did He add the one restriction, they were not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the reason being that in the day that they ate of it, they would surely die. That was the sentence, which God in His foreknowledge had already provisioned for (Rev. 13:8), by the shedding of the blood necessary to cover Adam and Eve's nakedness, which was the first thing they became aware of, once their eyes had been opened to the knowledge of good and evil, and caused them to hide from God, and attempt to cover their own nakedness, independent of God's personal intervention (Gen. 3:7, 10, 21 ).
* Looking now at the words of the serpent, and the means that he used to beguile Eve, we see that he introduced first of all the restriction God had placed on Adam and Eve's use of the fruit of the trees, greatly exaggerating it, with the words, 'Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Eve responded in kind by also using exaggeration, adding to God's word, and wrongly quoting the words God had spoken to Adam. 'We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.' What had God said? Thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' God did not say, 'neither shall ye touch it', and neither did He say, 'lest ye die', which introduced a note of contingency, which in God's words was not there, for He had said, '... thou shalt surely die'. The serpent countered Eve's words, by contradicting God's words, and introducing to Eve's mind the physical outcome of eating of that tree, '... Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil'.
* With the words of the serpent (above), we are told that, 'the woman saw': Eve began to look at the tree with new eyes; she saw that, 'the tree was good for food,' 'it was pleasant to the eyes', 'a tree to be desired to make one wise'. She was leaning to her own understanding, newly acquired though it was, and had obviously believed the serpents words, and so laying aside God's command, she, '... took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat'(Gen. 3:1-6). Eve's actions remind me of 1 John 2:15-17:-
'Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world.
If any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world,
.. the lust of the flesh,
.... and the lust of the eyes,
...... and the pride of life,
........ is not of the Father,
.......... but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:
but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.'
(1Jn 2:15-17)
* These actions brought sin into the world and death by sin. Adam and Eve would not now, 'Abide for ever' as (1Jn.2:17) says concerning those who do the will of God: For they had disobeyed God's known will for them.
* Eve had fallen into the trap laid by the serpent, through, 'the lust of the flesh', 'the lust of the eyes' and, 'the pride of life'. The love of the world had taken precedence over her love of God: They disobeyed God, and mankind became subject to sin and it's consequence; Making it necessary for God's intervention, by sending His Son into the world to take upon Himself the penalty for sin, and dying in our place, that our sins may be forgiven and covered by His all-sufficient sacrifice on our behalf.
Praise God!
In Christ Jesus
Chris (female)
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach,
nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
(1Timothy 2:11-15)
and there He put the man whom He had formed.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. '
(Gen 2:8-9)
'And the LORD God took the man,
and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'
(Gen 2:15-17)
Hello there,
This portion of Scripture is one that I keep needing to come back to: I am drawn to consider the difference between what was spoken by God to Adam, and the way that Eve misused it, for I believe that it is important to see both the weakness of the woman, whom we are told in 2 Corinthians 11:3, was beguiled through the serpent's subtilty: Opening Eve's mind to corruption: Corruption from the simplicity of God's one and only commandment to Adam and his wife Eve, concerning the trees of the field and their use. Also to see how incorrectly using the word of God in her replies to the serpent laid her open to this deception, and denied her the protection of God's spoken word as a defence against him.
* When God spoke to Adam concerning the trees, His first words expressed the freedom they had to eat of every tree of the garden, and only then did He add the one restriction, they were not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the reason being that in the day that they ate of it, they would surely die. That was the sentence, which God in His foreknowledge had already provisioned for (Rev. 13:8), by the shedding of the blood necessary to cover Adam and Eve's nakedness, which was the first thing they became aware of, once their eyes had been opened to the knowledge of good and evil, and caused them to hide from God, and attempt to cover their own nakedness, independent of God's personal intervention (Gen. 3:7, 10, 21 ).
* Looking now at the words of the serpent, and the means that he used to beguile Eve, we see that he introduced first of all the restriction God had placed on Adam and Eve's use of the fruit of the trees, greatly exaggerating it, with the words, 'Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Eve responded in kind by also using exaggeration, adding to God's word, and wrongly quoting the words God had spoken to Adam. 'We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.' What had God said? Thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' God did not say, 'neither shall ye touch it', and neither did He say, 'lest ye die', which introduced a note of contingency, which in God's words was not there, for He had said, '... thou shalt surely die'. The serpent countered Eve's words, by contradicting God's words, and introducing to Eve's mind the physical outcome of eating of that tree, '... Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil'.
* With the words of the serpent (above), we are told that, 'the woman saw': Eve began to look at the tree with new eyes; she saw that, 'the tree was good for food,' 'it was pleasant to the eyes', 'a tree to be desired to make one wise'. She was leaning to her own understanding, newly acquired though it was, and had obviously believed the serpents words, and so laying aside God's command, she, '... took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat'(Gen. 3:1-6). Eve's actions remind me of 1 John 2:15-17:-
'Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world.
If any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world,
.. the lust of the flesh,
.... and the lust of the eyes,
...... and the pride of life,
........ is not of the Father,
.......... but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:
but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.'
(1Jn 2:15-17)
* These actions brought sin into the world and death by sin. Adam and Eve would not now, 'Abide for ever' as (1Jn.2:17) says concerning those who do the will of God: For they had disobeyed God's known will for them.
* Eve had fallen into the trap laid by the serpent, through, 'the lust of the flesh', 'the lust of the eyes' and, 'the pride of life'. The love of the world had taken precedence over her love of God: They disobeyed God, and mankind became subject to sin and it's consequence; Making it necessary for God's intervention, by sending His Son into the world to take upon Himself the penalty for sin, and dying in our place, that our sins may be forgiven and covered by His all-sufficient sacrifice on our behalf.
Praise God!
In Christ Jesus
Chris (female)
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach,
nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
(1Timothy 2:11-15)
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