The results of Man's ruin ( 1 Cor. 15:22).

[golfjack]

As in Adam all die ( 1 Cor. 15:22). Adam was the head of the human race. By natural birth we are his descendants. When Adam sinned, death passded upon all because all sinned ( Rom. 5:12). when God created Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden, He gave him two commandments:

1. Cultivate and tend the garden;
2. Eat freely of every tree of the garden; except the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it you shall surely die ( Gen. 2:15-17).

Adam ate the forbidden fruit; this was the ruin ( fall) of mankind; the result of the ruin was death. Thelogically, death is separation. According to Scriptures there are three deaths:

1. When Adam sinned, he died spiritually; he was separated from God and the garden of eden ( Gen. 3:22-24). This was the spiritual ruin of man ( Eph. 2:1-5).

2. In genesis 4 we again see the results of the ruin. The first physical death was murder; Cain murdered his brother, abel ( Gen. 4:8). In Genesis 5, from Adam to Noah, three little words are repeated: and he died. The result of man's ruin is spiritual and physical death.

3. There is yet another death, called the second death. This is separation from God and His mercies forever and ever: Consignment to the lake of fire. without salvation in Christ, all that mankind has to look forward to is eternal separation from God in the lake of fire ( Rev. 20:14, 15).


May God bless, Golfjack

 

[Bick]

The result of man's ruin

Indeed, the apostle Paul sets it forth in Romans 5:12ff. Certainly, "the wages of sin is death", yet even through Adam the dying process has passed through unto all mankind.

Even innocent babies die, not because they have sinned, but because they are part of Adam's race.

Interesting isn't it, that in the Genesis account Adam was right there to eat of the fruit that Eve gave him. She was deceived, but Adam knowingly, deliberately ate of the forbidden fruit. IMO, it wasn't to deliberately disobey God, but because he loved Eve so much, and knew she would experience death, and he didn't want to be apart from her.

This isn't in the bible, but it is something I kinda believe.

As to their being "separated from God," I don't see that in the bible. It's true, something happened to them psychologically, for they knew they were naked. But, they still communicated with the Lord God, even though the close fellowship was gone. To say Adam and Eve died spiritually, is, IMO, a theological invention, because most theologians only know the KJV translation: "in the day that thou eatest... thou shalt surely die."

Think of it: if they were 'spiritually alive' before 'the fall;' then, they disobeyed and they 'died spiritually;' then in the future, they will be resurrected and have 'spiritual life' again on the New Earth.

So this would mean they would be 'spiritual alive', 'spiritually dead', then 'spiritually alive' again. THAT CAN NOT BE !

The warning God told Adam, from a literal translation of the Hebrew, is:
"Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat; and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it---for in the day of thine eating of it---dying thou dost die."

Cain certainly did murder his brother, Able. The first of a multitude of murders throughout the human race. And all the other sins of man a result of the the ruin started by Adam.

The lake of fire is the second death, indeed. And I understand that, of all the dead resurrected at the great white throne, those whose names are not in the book of life, will be cast into the lake of fire, and will die their second death.

But, personally, I believe God's grace is greater than all our sin (Rom. 5:20); and that the universe created by God through Christ Jesus, will not end with Satan winning the great majority of mankind, but love and grace will overcome.

God bless, Bick

 

[Gabbylittleangel]

... when God created Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden, He gave him two commandments:

1. Cultivate and tend the garden;
2. Eat freely of every tree of the garden; except the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it you shall surely die...

I once heard a Christian comedian say "Eve only had one commandment, and it was a diet...."