{"id":3897,"date":"2021-08-22T13:11:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2021-08-22T13:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:11:08","slug":"sunday-brunch-adams-choice-genesis-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/sunday-brunch-adams-choice-genesis-217\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Brunch – Adam’s Choice – Genesis 2:17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Genesis 2: 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam’s choice – do you have any thoughts or insight about this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam had a choice and he blew it. He was told not to eat from the tree of knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 3:1-7 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, \u201cDid God really say, \u2018You must not eat from any tree in the garden\u2019?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 The woman said to the serpent, \u201cWe may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, \u2018You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 \u201cYou will not certainly die,\u201d the serpent said to the woman. 5 \u201cFor God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Adam and Eve ate from the tree<\/a>, drawn into temptation by the serpent. I’ve often wondered, what would have happened if they’d NOT eaten from the tree of knowledge? Would all of us be in paradise<\/a> right now, eating as much fruit and veggies that we wanted, not having to toil in the soil? Would we be happy, carefree, birthing children with no pain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hold on a second. Do you like to read Christian fiction<\/a>? Consider my Amazon bestselling Christian novels<\/a>! Tell your friends and church buddies! Now, back to discussing Adam and Eve….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or would someone, one of Adam’s and Eve’s offspring, mess everything up by eating from the tree of knowledge? I think about Cain murdering his brother Abel<\/a>. If Adam and Eve had obeyed God, later, would Cain have eaten from the tree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also wonder about Adam’s and Eve’s salvation? Their disobeying God<\/a> was blatantly wrong. In the Old Testament, people must abide by strict rules. If those rules are broken, they could die, with no hope of salvation? Christ’s coming is foretold in the Old Testament. Yet, I’m unaware as to if Adam and Eve can be saved since they were perfect?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of us are sinners and we have the hope of salvation through our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we were perfect, in the Garden of Eden, would we have been tempted, and made the wrong choice, like Adam and Eve? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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