God originally created the whole universe, including people,
without any flaws. (Genesis 1:31). God made Adam and Eve, the first two
people on earth, without sin or any knowledge of evil. They lived in an
ideal world without any evil or death.They eat and drink what they want.
Adam and was given a complete freedom,Freedom to do whatever they wanted. God placed one tree in the Garden of Eden
from which they were forbidden to eat. God warned them that the day they will eat the fruit die they will die.
In Genesis 3:1-6, we read of their disobedience as they were led by
Satan, in the guise of a snake, to eat from this forbidden tree. They
doubted whether God really had their best interests in mind and whether
what God said was really true. As a result of their disobedience, their
open relationship with God was destroyed, causing spiritual death. Evil
entered the world, they were driven from the Garden of Eden, and
physical death began its work in their bodies.
Like Adam and Eve, we also doubt God’s truthfulness and goodness when
we ignore God’s instructions for our lives; we then suffer the
consequences; if we’re honest with ourselves, we realize that God
actually desires what is best for us and gives us commands for our good.
In( Exodus 20:1-19), God gave the Ten Commandments, the basis of how He
wanted His people to live. These include commands to worship only God,
set aside one day each week to focus on God, honor one’s parents, be
faithful to one’s spouse, not kill, not steal, not lie about others, and
not to desire another’s wife or property. How do you measure up to this
standard? No person, except Jesus, has perfectly obeyed all of these
commands. Each of us has, at one time or another, been disrespectful to
our parents, or desired what belongs to someone else, or had adulterous
thoughts, lied, taken something that does not belong to us, or in some
way disobeyed another of these commands. In Matthew 5:21-22 and other
Scriptures, Jesus explained that we are guilty if we even harbor an
attitude that goes against God’s commands. If I have disobeyed even one
of God’s instructions, I am just as guilty as if I had broken them all
(James 2:10). (Romans 3:23) says that each one of us has fallen short of
God’s requirements. If we are honest as we look at ourselves, we will
agree with God’s assessment of us in( Romans 3:12 )“They are all gone
out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none
that does good, no, not one.”
As Adam’s descendants, we inherit his severed relationship with God,
as well as a natural “bent” to selfishly pursue what we want instead of
yielding to any authority, even God’s authority. We are slaves to sin
(Romans 6:16) and cannot please God (Romans 8:6-7). As (Isaiah 53:6 )says,
we have each gone our own way instead of doing life God’s way.
Adam and Eve faced spiritual and physical death as a result of their
disobedience. As their descendants, we too, deal with physical and
spiritual death. Romans 6:23 tells us we have earned death by our
disobedience. If we continue in a spiritually dead condition, we will be
separated from God for eternity. This means we will spend eternity in
Hell, which will be a place of loneliness, darkness, and intense,
unending torment. God made Hell as a place to punish Satan and the
angels who followed Satan (Matthew25 :41). However, since we have
rebelled against God, this becomes our dhttps://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1792436405205203946#editor/target=post;postID=8522166787560328163;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=4;src=linkestiny also, unless we accept
God’s solution.
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