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Bible Study Satan was the First to Sin in The Garden of Eden

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Satan was the First to Sin in The Garden of Eden

People are under the erroneous impression that Eve was the first person to sin in the Garden of Eden. It was actually Satan who committed the first sin.

When God created man he gave him dominion over the entire world including the animals. Man's dominion over the animals was confirmed when God brought every animal to Adam to name. Even the Serpent, who eventually spoke and caused Eve to sin, was named by Adam for Eve repeated its name in describing her encounter with it to Adam and to God.

Satan knew that the Serpent had already been named by Adam, and was under Adam's dominion, and yet Satan tempted the Serpent to be his mouthpiece to speak to Eve. Satan, in giving the Serpent the ability to talk, took dominion over the serpent from Adam and therefore was the very first 'person' to sin. Afterwards when Eve succumbed to the temptation of the Serpent she was the second 'person' to sin.

Subsequently when Eve tempted Adam to follow her in her disobedience in eating the forbidden fruit Adam became the third person to sin in the Garden of Eden.

It is interesting that since Adam named the serpent, when God brought the serpent to Adam to be named, that the serpent could not talk just like all the other animals Adam named. But when Eve had recounted her sinful encounter with the serpent to Adam, they both knew its name, meaning that they both first encountered the serpent when it could not talk.

So why, if Adam and Eve both knew that the serpent shouldn't be able to talk did they not immediately inform God, who walked in the Garden with both Adam and Eve, that the serpent now had the ability to talk?
Satan violated man's dominion over the animals in giving the serpent the ability to talk and pass along Satan's temptation to Eve. Therefore Satan was the very first 'person' to sin in the Garden of Eden.

If only Adam and Eve had gone to God with the news that the serpent was now talking. Talking about committing a sin against God by eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. Then the horrific events that followed would have been avoided and both Adam and Eve would be still back in the Garden of Eden enjoying the presence of God. (hint: when in doubt always go to God in prayer)

Even after the sin of Adam and Eve in eating the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil, God put in motion the events for man's eventual redemption and readmission back into the presence with God in heaven by having God's very own son Jesus Christ bear the penalty of our sins on the cross.

Believe in the death and resurrection of God's son Jesus Christ, who is God become man, and you'll have all of your sins forgiven, including the original sin of Adam and Eve, and rest assured that you'll have eternal life with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit, in heaven forever!

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Without the knowledge of good and evil, pre-sin Woman and Adam wouldn't have been able to suspect anything wrong about a chatty serpent. It would appear neither good nor evil.
 
People are under the erroneous impression that Eve was the first person to sin in the Garden of Eden. It was actually Satan who committed the first sin.
This is incorrect. Before Satan entered Eden, he had already sinned against God and been cast out of God's Heaven.
 
it is written satan is the one that is the "serpent"(Revelation 12:9), and it is not about an animal, nor about an angel, but satan is just the main manifestation of the "darkness" - an unsouled/unbesouled spirit born of the uncaused "darkness", because the indefinitely existing "darkness" is the negative side of the divine whose nature has the impulse to manifest in certain forms - in the form of lie(the devil), in the form of deterioration(the "death"), etc., and it is called "serpent" because of its characteristics of an entity that parasitizes and opposes God and His creature and creation

God had been in a state of half-sleep since the seventh day, that's why He was not fully able then to prevent the humans from sinning

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Where did you come up with this weird theology?

theology?!

Genesis 2:2-3 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."

Blessings
 
God had been in a state of half-sleep since the seventh day, that's why He was not fully able then to prevent the humans from sinning
That's utter nonsense.
God does not slumber or sleep. He's not a man who gets tired and needs to rest.
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Psa 121:4 (RSV)

iakov the fool
 
theology?!

Genesis 2:2-3 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
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Do you actually think that passage is telling you that God was tired and needed a rest?
The word rendered "rested" in the Late Middle English" of the King James Version does not mean that God was tired from all that work and needed to take a rest.
It means that He ceased or ended the work of creation. That's why, on the Sabbath, the Jews are required to cease working.
God is omnipotent. There is nothing that can make Him physically tired so that He needs a rest.
How tired do you think God got by, once a day, saying, "Let there be..."?

iakov the fool
 
That's utter nonsense.
God does not slumber or sleep. He's not a man who gets tired and needs to rest.
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Psa 121:4 (RSV)

iakov the fool

if He has ever been absolutely awake, then why hasn't He saved the humankind yet, but there are still many suffering people in the world?!, or if there have been not a few good people who would save the whole world if they could, then is it possible that God be worse than them/the humans?!, or are humans better/more righteous than God?!

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if He has ever been absolutely awake, then why hasn't He saved the humankind yet, but there are still many suffering people in the world?!, or if there have been not a few good people who would save the whole world if they could, then is it possible that God be worse than them/the humans?!, or are humans better/more righteous than God?!

Blessings
You're kidding, right?
 
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Do you actually think that passage is telling you that God was tired and needed a rest?
The word rendered "rested" in the Late Middle English" of the King James Version does not mean that God was tired from all that work and needed to take a rest.
It means that He ceased or ended the work of creation. That's why, on the Sabbath, the Jews are required to cease working.
God is omnipotent. There is nothing that can make Him physically tired so that He needs a rest.
How tired do you think God got by, once a day, saying, "Let there be..."?

iakov the fool

i did not say God had been physically tired, but He also faces certain difficulties, and mostly the clash between Him and the "darkness", which also wants to reign over the world and pretends to should be master of the universe - there is a struggle for supremacy between them, even at most interior (system) level

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God doesn't face any difficulties.
Whatever He wills, He does.

John 3:17 "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

so God has willed to save the whole humankind at least since this was said by the relevant Prophets/Saints, and if He has not faced any difficulties for all those/these centuries/millennia, then why hasn't He saved the whole world yet since He has wanted to do it, because there are still a lot of suffering humans in the world?!

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so God has willed to save the whole humankind at least since this was said by the relevant Prophets/Saints, and if He has not faced any difficulties for all those/these centuries/millennia, then why hasn't He saved the whole world yet since He has wanted to do it, because there are still a lot of suffering humans in the world?!
Salvation is freely offered to all the world.
But each individual has the free will to choose not to take the gift.
It is a tenet of Christianity that God does not force anyone to be saved. It is a gift offered to man. Man has the option of accepting or rejecting the gift.
God has achieved total victory over death and hell. It is man's choice to receive of reject the fruits of that victory. Man's intransigence is not a difficulty for God.

iakov the fool
 
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Salvation is freely offered to all the world.
But each individual has the free will to choose not to take the gift.
It is a tenet of Christianity that God does not force anyone to be saved. It is a gift offered to man. Man has the option of accepting or rejecting the gift.
God has achieved total victory over death and hell. It is man's choice to receive of reject the fruits of that victory. Man's intransigence is not a difficulty for God.

iakov the fool

you have not yet answered the question that i asked you in this thread, namely if God has been absolutely able to save all the humankind for the last 2 millennia and more, why hasn't He saved them yet?!

what you say here doesn't seem sane, because no good parent would leave their little children to suffer/die in their inability to make the right choice for themselves, for example would any really good parent leave their infant alone to suffer/die because of the inability of his/her infancy to take care of himself/herself?!, for example the infants cannot eat and drink alone, but there is a need of someone to feed them, moreover, they even cannot reason (out) many things (well) (enough), so if any person cannot make the right choice for himself or herself, then how isn't he/she an infant?!, and if human parents had taken good care of their children even if they were fastidious, then how much more is God a good parent taking good care of the people that are (so to speak) children in their minds i.e. that cannot make the right choice for themselves?!, moreover, God is the system Administrator of life for all the universe, Whose obligation is to provide the souls with abundant and everlasting life as soon as possible, while the humans are made, first of all, to be users, and it is a fact that they cannot save themselves alone i.e. without the true Lord God - taking into consideration the fact that, as it is also written in the Scripture, the big brothers i.e. the strong ones have the obligation to take good care of the weak ones(Romans 15), because the weak ones can't be so strong/strong enough to take care of themselves...

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