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So if they resisted temptation,.. would all of us be born sinless like Jesus? How else would the world be different?
So if they resisted temptation,.. would all of us be born sinless like Jesus? How else would the world be different?
We would live in harmony with our Creater through the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ of Nazareth is God in the flesh. He walked with Adam and Eve in Eden until the fall. Be blessed.So if they resisted temptation,.. would all of us be born sinless like Jesus? How else would the world be different?
Yeah, that's what I believe. It's hard to tell because we now know what good and evil is. But just say everything is "normal". Animals eat green plants, we eat fruit, nuts, grains. We walk around naked , no pain (or not much) in child birth, no discord between everyone, and we remain more or less like children, IMO. We would learn, but not really appreciate God and what He has done for us, IMO.
As for me,.. I would feel very uncomfortable if I was naked all the time. Especially since I'm engaged.
So if they resisted temptation,.. would all of us be born sinless like Jesus? How else would the world be different?
In Genesis 2 it says: "Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame". Why did they feel no shame? Because they didn't know about "right" and "wrong", about "good" and "bad". Right after they ate from the tree of knowledge they covered their specific parts, because they got to know the feeling of shame - just as you and I would feel today. And we will always use clothing (for the better) as long as we have the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. I can't think of a single occasion in the Bible where clothing is considered "sinful"; it's a necessary consequence of the Fall. The fact that we cover our bodies is as much of a sin as the fact that we contract an illness from time to time: not a sin, but a consequence that is part of the fallen creation.
God created mankind with a free will. In order to have a real relationship with us God had to give us the freedom to love or to not love Him, to trust or to not trust Him. Without the freedom of the will we could comply, but not love.
How and why Lucifer turned against God is not explained in the Bible, but we know that he did. I think if Adam and Eve had resisted the temptation, then some other human, even generations later, had eaten from the tree of knowledge. The Fall had just been postponed.
You might say now "but what if every human being resisted the temptation" - but that is quite wishful thinking. Having the freedom to choose and knowing the human nature it is very unlikely that no human had ever failed to resist.
And it would seem that God knew exactly that! Even before Creation he had planned the way to save us from the consequences of our free will. God knew that He had to sacrifice His own and only Son for our redemption.
In Genesis 2 it says: "Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame". Why did they feel no shame? Because they didn't know about "right" and "wrong", about "good" and "bad". Right after they ate from the tree of knowledge they covered their specific parts, because they got to know the feeling of shame - just as you and I would feel today. And we will always use clothing (for the better) as long as we have the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. I can't think of a single occasion in the Bible where clothing is considered "sinful"; it's a necessary consequence of the Fall. The fact that we cover our bodies is as much of a sin as the fact that we contract an illness from time to time: not a sin, but a consequence that is part of the fallen creation.
I have a different way of thinking about this. I know Gen 2 says "Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame". I wonder when the scripture is saying this that it's meant in a certain sense of the word. That in a way they weren't totally naked in the way that we would think but that they didn't have clothes of the physical. Were they really clothed in the light/energy/ glory of God? To illustrate on the Mt of Transfiguration it says the glory manifested and,
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Matt 17:17
And in Matt 28:1-4 we read at an event where an angel appeared at the Resurrection of Jesus,
There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. Matt 28:1-4
What they saw was what happened when God allows his glory to manifest. So before sin degenerated the spirits of Adam & Eve were they really clothed with God's glory? It still rightly can be said "they were naked" in that they weren't wearing physical clothes but they didn't need them. The glory took care of everything...warmth, protection and covering. I can't say I can absolutely prove what I'm saying but Ps 104: 1-2 does say,
Lord my God, you are very great;you are clothed with splendour and majesty.
The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; Ps 104:1-2
If God is clothed in garments of LIGHT, which I believe means the GLORY or modern day we'd call it the energy of God why would we think that it'd be different with MANKIND that is in the beginning. When Adam & Eve sinned the glory departed....and they saw themselves as naked, that is without the covering of glory.
So are you saying that they didn't have the ability to know right from wrong because they were created to be sinless? But they still sinned so how were they created to be sinless since God never makes mistakes. Jesus was born sinless and never sinned,.. could He have though and just chosen not to? A little off topic I know but I always wondered that as that's what I always believed that He could sin, He just didn't. After all He was still tempted but just didn't give into temptation which is why I believe this.
Jesus was born sinless and never sinned,.. could He have though and just chosen not to? A little off topic I know but I always wondered that as that's what I always believed that He could sin, He just didn't. After all He was still tempted but just didn't give into temptation which is why I believe this.
Wait, I got another question now. If God knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit that was bad for them,.. what was the point of putting it there in the first place?
So if they resisted temptation,.. would all of us be born sinless like Jesus?
The Flood does indeed make this a bit difficult. The surface of the earth changed a whole lot in the process, and we can only use and analyze satellite pictures today to figure out where the garden of Eden has been.Oh and I wonder if Adam and Eve's burial place is even known or the exact location of the garden of Eden even though it got washed away in the flood.
If God knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit that was bad for them
what was the point of putting it there in the first place?
The thing I don't understand is why God allowed the serpent to mislead Eve.
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Not like Jesus. Whereas Adam was born capable of disobeying God; Jesus was born incapable of disobeying God. (1 John 3:9)
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Well; this may sound irreverent but what went on between Eve and the Serpent was really none of His business.
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