“He himself had eaten of the forbidden fruit” (Ellen G. Eve beheld the serpent joyfully eating the forbidden fruit without dying. Sometime after this warning from God, Satan assumed the form of a serpent and also entered Eden. How does Genesis 2:16, 17 show the reality of free will in the perfection of Eden? That is, why would God have needed to warn them if they couldn’t freely choose? In that context, God came to the Garden of Eden and warned: “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (Gen. Death was an unknown experience for Adam and Eve. The world, as it came from the Lord, was perfect (Gen. Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, October 8. This week we will reflect on the fall of Adam and Eve, on how sin and death took over our world, and on how God planted a seed of hope for humanity even back in Eden. This means that even when the world was still perfect and blameless, there were already clear restrictions for human beings to obey. Fully aware of Satan’s strategy, God warned Adam and Eve not to expose themselves to temptation (Gen. Having been cast out of heaven, Satan decided “to destroy the happiness of Adam and Eve” on earth and thereby “cause grief in heaven.” He imagined that “if he could in any way beguile them to disobedience, God would make some provision whereby they might be pardoned, and then himself and all the fallen angels would be in a fair way to share with them of God’s mercy.” - Ellen G. But when God the Father conferred special honor on Christ and announced that They together would create this world, “Lucifer was envious and jealous of Jesus Christ” (Ellen G. Memory Text: “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12, NKJV).Ĭhrist was the Divine Agent through whom God brought the universe and the world into existence (John 1:1-3, 10 Col. Lesson 2 October 1-7 Death in a Sinful World
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