by Gerry Legister

Created on: April 20, 2009

For 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. Genesis 3:5

Eve was left alone, when she fell into the temptation initiated by trickery of the serpent, which showed cunning camouflage in friendly disguise. It was more than likely that Adam was not with her at the time when the conversation develops, if he was with her he certainly would have prevented her from committing such a dreadful sin.

Eve accepted Satan's lie through the serpent and obeyed him by eating what God had specifically forbidden, this was a willful act of disobedience, and the three points of temptation caused their eyes to be open, food, wisdom and lust. After the serpent attack, sin entered the world and Adam and Eve had to respond to Gods Call, the serpent was cursed and Adam and Eve were sent out of the garden.

If God was so fully aware of Eve's weakness, why did he create her? Many commentators hold to the notion that God created Eve for the same reason as he did all the other beautiful things in the garden, to complement each other and to be enjoyed, admired and love. With the choice of laws, restriction and freedom, Eve was graciously given to Adam, to be his companion, it was he who had named all the animals and had dominion over the entire created order of things.

God made them both Male and female, and from the time of creation one pronoun was for either gender, their creation speaks of Gods finest work crafted in clay figures, from the dust of the ground, Adam and Eve were not made out of concrete, nor from the bark of trees, the bible does not suggest in any place that Adam evolved from Apes.

The bible leads us into our study to conclude that man was made in the image and likeness of God, but they were unaware of the ravages of sin, until the committed sin, the act of disobedience would severely disrupt their relationship with the maker and alter the course of human behavior.

It was the downfall of Eve to entertaining the serpent, not been aware of the full the measure of his craftiness, then it was also Adam's nave assumption to disobey God that caused the whole human race to encounter the genetic downfall. Paradise restored has taken a long time to mend the broken bridges, and sometimes it seems we are no nearer to regaining the paradise we lost through the disobedience of Adam and Eve, than when mankind were a thousand year after the incident had taken place.

In order for us to move on in our relationship

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