To be tempted is not the same as sinning. God created Adam and Eve to be free so they could worship Him freely. God did not want coerced worship; He wanted authentic worship. So God gave Adam and Eve a free will to worship  Him. If they were forced to worship God, it would not have been authentic worship; that is not true freedom.

For Adam and eve to be free, they had to have the ability to both reject God  and worship Him freely. Adam and Eve fully understood what God expected of them. If Adam and eve were never tempted in their loyalty to their Creator, they would have remained in immaturity. God only put condition on them not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God created all the trees in the garden, and told them to freely eat of all the trees accept one. Adam and Eve sin by disobeying God’s Word.and eating of the only tree God told not to eat from. By this act they were rebelling against God’s authority.

Original sin means that when Adam and Eve fell, their act of disobedience affected the whole human race. This may be contentious, in how this is understood. Read it for yourself in Genesis Chapter 3.

The story of Adam and Eve’s fall is a profound account of humanity’s greatest tragedy, Our separation from a Good and Holy God.  There was nothing we could do on our own, to return us to relationship with God.

Christ Jesus can and will rescue us. the death of Jesus is the only place where we can find forgiveness for our sin and strength to overcome it. Only the cross can free us from the power of sin.

Through Christ Jesus’ resurrection, we have new life, the life that was lost by original sin. We can either accept it, and have our relationship with a Good and Holy God restored or reject it and live in the consequences of separation from Him.

We either worship God and have fellowship with Him or worship false gods, today’s false gods include, money, sex, legalism and power. We are created to live in fellowship with a loving God, if we reject that, we leave ourselves open to other influences that are outside God’s protection.

We have such a Wonderful, and Loving God, the choice to be made is easy.

God Bless.

O F J.

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