Perhaps what you mean by warding off bad luck is just obedience to the Word of God?
Hello Cassia,
Well, not only: The words Satan said to them suggested that God had lied. First testimony of Satan that Adam and Eve began to believe. Disobedience is just the consequence that reveals suspicion had turned distrust in their mind. So, It looks like the first offense by men was made of a disbelief of God's words. What's more, it's likely that this disbelief led their imagination to suppose wrong things about God, and thus began their separation.
But to come back to the first offense, if it was really made of a disbelief, the only mean to bear reparation to Truth, was to believe again through conversion, that is, to recognize the sin through testimony of bad behaviour. (In the case of original sin, this original bad behaviour is a wrong opinion of God). To perform this, John the Baptist came baptizing in order to dispose men to realize their errors through a right belief. And the recognizing of their sin is a belief that implies the recognition of God's word as well. God is no longer suspected of lie.
After the recognizing of their sins, remained to apologize for the sins and to get their remission. As for the remission of sin, I have no idea yet of how it's working, I' ll have to meditate.
To check death, a new proposition of belief, to be or not to be believed had to be made transmissible through the mean of testimony, that is, through word. happy is he that believes without having seen, and the truth Jesus told Pilate He had come to bear testimony to, namely, that He is the Messiah, son of God, is to men an assertion in word, uncheckable with eyes. It can only be believed or not. Such was the case too for Adam and Eve of the warning God gave them, namely that they would die in case of their eating the tree. They thought they were immortal; they were not..
I hope your reading was not too boring.
Friendly,
Peter