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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
The first thing to know is that God didn't
create sin.
The Bible doesn't say how long before earth that God created the heavens and the angels, but of them there were three archangels over the lower angels - Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer. There was only one eternal commandment, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength."
All the angels were created perfect, until Lucifer had
one little thought that he acted upon. The thought was not from God, it was from himself.
Ezekiel 28:15
You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.
Isaiah 14:13-14
For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
This he preached to his own third of the angels, causing one third of all the angels created to fall with him. The Bible doesn't say
why these naive angels followed him, and not God, but they did.
Adam was created perfect also, as was the earth and all the things in and on the earth.
Genesis 2:
8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:
15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Then God made Eve. You know the story. She was naive also having never been lied to.
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’
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Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
It is important to note about sin, that Eve was tricked. Otherwise, she would not have disobeyed God's commandment. It was still not in her nature to disobey anyone. When she ate, nothing happened. But when she gave the fruit to Adam, he willfully disobeyed God's commandment, and when he ate, they
both saw that they were naked. Their perfect nature had now become a sin nature.
Then God made the first sacrifice for sin, and made clothes of skin for them to wear.
Genesis 3:
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Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
It is the
sin nature that Adam produced from his sin, that we have inherited. We are all of Adam. Our own good deeds can't take that away, even though we know both good and evil from the tree. And it is this
sin nature that Jesus came to die to take away. Not just individual sins, the whole nature of Adam that produces sin.
This is why Jesus, who because He was born of God and His seed was in Him, never sinned, even though He had a mother born, herself, with a sin nature, until she too received the seed of the Father and is now called Blessed. Jesus puts that same power in us when we repent of the sin nature, realizing that we can't stop sinning on our own. When we turn that over to Christ, He puts His own Spirit within us.
This is why it is of the utmost importance to receive the Spirit of God. Many believe in God, but even the demons believe and tremble. And many know all about Jesus, but have never repented of the sin nature, and actually received His seed, that doesn't sin willfully.
1 John 3:4-10
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Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
Being born of God is a removal of the inherited sin nature from Adam, and given a new nature of the Spirit. That is why Romans 8:9 says,
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.