Actually if we look at what the Bible has to say, concerning the fall, it just takes up a small portion of Scripture. But if we go through it too fast we miss some important things (isn’t that the way the Bible is everywhere though
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Genesis 3:1-6 1Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
The Bible tells us that Eve (and I think it is safe to assume Adam as well as we are told he was with her so all this applies to him as well) SAW that that the tree was good for food – the only way she “saw” that is if she saw one eat it…, become wise by eating and not dying. She observed the snake touch the fruit, and eat the fruit – saw him respond in a wise fashion for an animal. She decided to test her observations, and she tasted the fruit. This is actually very scientific in her methods. She observed, then tested her observations. The test went just fine.
Adam waited for her testing of her observations. Was there anything wrong with her method? Not really. What she observed was there for observation – the snake ate the fruit, and he appeared to be wise as he spoke to her in a very convincing manner. She tested her observations by tasting the fruit – while we don’t know if it tasted good or not, we know it didn’t make her any wiser (her eyes were not opened till Adam ate according to scripture). All looked good – So what went wrong? First time used and the scientific method failed.
Adam took the fruit after seeing what Eve observed, and seeing that Eve tasted the fruit and DIDN’T die… that was Adam’s test of the observations as well. – Eve was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh and she didn’t die. Actually there was no change in her that is mentioned at all. Their observations were good, their assumptions seem logical – yet they were WRONG – terribly wrong.
Man is finite and God is pointing out to man that apart from God things are not right – we need Him to make the right choices. Apart from God all is vanity. This applied before the fall as well as after salvation. Think we have seen that message elsewhere in Scripture. God wanted man to trust Him completely, to depend on Him for all man needed – for information which was beyond man. Man even in an unfallen state was finite and not all knowing. Adam and Eve’s understanding was good from what they understood – it was accurate observation and testing of their observations seems good. The problem was their conclusions – though they were reasoned and logical, they were wrong. There was information that Adam and Eve didn’t understand. We will deal with Adam because all that applies to Eve also applies to Adam.
1. The fruit was not poison – but God never said it was.
2. The snake could eat the fruit without harm – we are not told that God told the snake not to eat or he would die – God told only Adam that.
3. The snake became wise – actually is was a fallen archangel who was behind the snakes wisdom so the fruit didn’t make the snake wise at all it just appeared that way.
4. Eve didn’t die and she was part of man – well it is odd how covenants work but God didn’t tell Eve not to eat but Adam before Eve was even created. We know this is the issue because Eve’s eyes were opened when Adam ate, not when she ate – all fall in Adam not in Eve – this is according to Scripture not opinion.
So what should Adam have done? This is a real application for WWJD.
1. When Adam saw the snake he should have exercised dominion and held the snake accountable for what was going on… At the point when he understood Satan was involved he should have called on God (Satan is not under his dominion, however the snake was.)
2. When Adam saw Eve touching the fruit – he should have knocked it out of her hand.
4. When Adam saw Eve eat, if he really believe that she would die because she came from him he should have gone to God with Eve and offered his life in her stead - that is what Jesus did isn’t it?
Adam failed the WWJD test. Adam watched as the perfect mate God had given him eat a fruit in front of him which he thought would cause her to die, and he watched to see if she indeed would. At a very basic level sin is disobeying a direct command from God – that is what we have here. Eve wasn’t given the command by God, Adam was. Adam was being tested for his reaction to the situation – He not only didn’t care if Eve would die (he after all had another rib) when his decision was wrong he had the nerve to blame God – God had shown him that he was “not good” – God’s words not mine – without his mate and here Adam blamed God and the thing that made him “good” in God’s sight when he is the one who disobeyed.
Today God calls for us to pray and to trust Him in all things. When worldly observations and tests seem to throw it in our face that the Word of God isn’t trustworthy or true; we are regenerate therefore we are not fallen any longer and God wants us to learn the lesson which Adam was suppose to have learned – God is infinite, man is not – God is omniscience (all-Knowing) man is not. When something is outside our understanding God wants us to come to Him and take Him at His Word – He is trustworthy and true. You do not have to compromise on any point if we trust God we are on the right side. Our instruction is to stand firm till the end, knowing that Jesus Christ is Truth and we can depend on God – never on our own understanding (lean not on your own understanding is what the Bible says) much less that of the world. That is what Adam did, Adam failed.
Thoughts?
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