Burdock
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And the woman saw that it would be good to eat from the tree and that it was beautiful to look at, and that it was an enjoyable tree to be desired because it would make one wise, and she took of its fruit and ate and also gave of it to her husband, and he ate. Genesis 3:6
What a gigantic mistake that was. Sometimes when I make a mistake I'll think about it and the consequences that came with it and wish I hadn't done that. I wonder if that's where Evan and Eve we're at that point. I mean they knew they had made a mistake as they hid themselves from God and they covered their nakedness, which were two things they never would have dreamed of before the fall.
The Fall of Man explains why sin and misery exist in the world today. Every act of violence, every illness, every tragedy that happens can be traced back to that fateful encounter between the first human beings and Satan. That one act of making the wrong choice brought to God's creation suffering on a scale that's hard to imagine.
When God created Adam, the first man, and Eve, the first woman, and placed them in a perfect home, the Garden of Eden everything about Earth was perfect at that moment in time. Food, in the form of fruit and vegetables, was plentiful and free for the taking. The garden God created was spectacularly beautiful. Even the animals got along with one another, all of them eating plants at that early stage.
Eve falls first. She falls as the weaker one, as the one who is partly taken from the man. But there is no excuse for her fall; she is fully her own person. Yet the culmination of the story is Adam’s fall. Only when Adam falls does Eve fall wholly, for the two are after all one. Adam falls because of Eve, and Eve falls because of Adam; the two are one. They are two and yet one also in their guilt. They fall together as one, yet each carries the whole burden of guilt alone. God created humankind as man and woman—and humankind fell away from God as man and as woman.
How could it happen that Adam did not regard Eve’s deed as a last sign pointing to the one who created him? He was not even able to understand what Eve had done. He was still only able to understand it as another infinite reinforcement of the serpent’s word that pointed out to him his creatureliness and freedom for God. “And he ate.”
My take away from this is, that if I do what God tells us to do everything will work out for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose. If I ignore what God tells us to do, and instead choose the pride of life, I'm in for a train wreck.
What a gigantic mistake that was. Sometimes when I make a mistake I'll think about it and the consequences that came with it and wish I hadn't done that. I wonder if that's where Evan and Eve we're at that point. I mean they knew they had made a mistake as they hid themselves from God and they covered their nakedness, which were two things they never would have dreamed of before the fall.
The Fall of Man explains why sin and misery exist in the world today. Every act of violence, every illness, every tragedy that happens can be traced back to that fateful encounter between the first human beings and Satan. That one act of making the wrong choice brought to God's creation suffering on a scale that's hard to imagine.
When God created Adam, the first man, and Eve, the first woman, and placed them in a perfect home, the Garden of Eden everything about Earth was perfect at that moment in time. Food, in the form of fruit and vegetables, was plentiful and free for the taking. The garden God created was spectacularly beautiful. Even the animals got along with one another, all of them eating plants at that early stage.
Eve falls first. She falls as the weaker one, as the one who is partly taken from the man. But there is no excuse for her fall; she is fully her own person. Yet the culmination of the story is Adam’s fall. Only when Adam falls does Eve fall wholly, for the two are after all one. Adam falls because of Eve, and Eve falls because of Adam; the two are one. They are two and yet one also in their guilt. They fall together as one, yet each carries the whole burden of guilt alone. God created humankind as man and woman—and humankind fell away from God as man and as woman.
How could it happen that Adam did not regard Eve’s deed as a last sign pointing to the one who created him? He was not even able to understand what Eve had done. He was still only able to understand it as another infinite reinforcement of the serpent’s word that pointed out to him his creatureliness and freedom for God. “And he ate.”
My take away from this is, that if I do what God tells us to do everything will work out for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose. If I ignore what God tells us to do, and instead choose the pride of life, I'm in for a train wreck.
