..the last enemy to be destroyed

Published: September 17, 2007, 1:26 pm

So many assume that disobedience was the first sin, and representative of every bad choice that we might do thereafter.Adam/Eve didn't know that to disobey was bad though, remember? They didn't make any knowing choice and by all standards were therefore unaccountable.After they ate the fruit, they lost love for themselves (evidenced by shame) and lost love in God's unconditional love (evidenced by fear). They became aware of the commandment in a new light and concluded that they were bad. They couldn't love themselves through their mistake, so they didn't expect God to either. That doesn't make any of it true!What it did make true, was that they were disconnected from God because they were disconnected from love. "God is love" (1 John 4:8). That means that they were dead! (Just like God warned - imagine that.)God, who is represented as a loving father biblically, then is strolling through the garden and doesn't see his children anywhere. Concerned (NOT enraged imo), he

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