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People are not inherently good because if it that were true then there would have been no need for Jesus to come, and nothing for Him to save us from. But He came to save us from our sinful nature and redeem us from the curse of the law. (Gal. 3:13)

In the beginning, God made Adam and Eve and placed them in the beautiful Garden of Eden, and said in Genesis 1:31 that it was good. By this He meant that the job He did was complete and satisfying. In fact, He walked with Adam and talked with him in the evenings (Gen 3:8,10). Since God is Holy and can only be on Holy ground, we know that the Garden of Eden was Holy ground and that there was no sin present.

This was the only time in the history of mankind where people were good. It was short lived and Adam and Eve soon fell to the wiles of sin as shown in Genesis 3:1-7. This is the first recorded act of the disobedience of man. God told Adam directly not to eat or even touch a certain tree in the middle of the garden, and Adam passed that rule on to Eve.

Eve, however, was deceived by a serpent that had been filled and empowered by Satan for the sole purpose of bringing sin to mankind. It convinced Eve that God would not kill them and that He was simply jealous of them becoming as smart as He was. Since nothing had ever died in the garden, it was likely difficult for her to perceive what death even was, and her focus would have been on being more like God. The good life she lived was the only one she knew, and so she was tricked into eating the fruit from the forbidden tree.

However, when Adam listened to Eve and ate fruit from the same tree, he committed sin against God because he disobeyed God. Eve ate the fruit and that was wrong but Adam ate the fruit in disobedience to God and he knew it, and by eating the fruit he committed a sin against God. And now that an act of sin was present in the Garden of Eden, God was forced to cast them out lest they corrupt His garden.

Genesis 3:17 says that God put them out of the perfect garden and cursed them. Yet, He did not leave them without hope. Genesis 3:15 says that He promised to send someone who would deliver them from their sins, and this person unknown to them at the time, was Jesus. From that time on, man has had an evil heart as noted in Genesis 8:21 which says, the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Even Adam and Eve had to bring offerings to God as an atonement for their sin so that they could talk with God. Remember,

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