Summary When Adam was placed into the Garden of Eden to work the land, God commanded him to not eat from This was a choice God did not have to give Adam. God could have hidden the tree of the knowledge of good and evil away from Adam, or created Adam without Instead, God gave this command and Adam was given a choice between obedience and rebellion. God certainly didn't want Adam to fail, yet He knew that Adam and Eve would disobey in the garden.

Adam knew exactly what he was doing when he took that bite. She hadn't been created yet when God conveyed His command to Adam to not eat of the tree in the middle But what about Adam? But Adam? Adam knew exactly what he was doing when he took that first bite. Adam's willful disobedience had a direct effect upon your brain.

Adam and his wife have just eaten the forbidden fruit. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and Summary Adam and his wife heard the familiar sound and knew just what it was. Notice that as he blurts out to God, Adam only confesses the reason for his fear, not his sin. So God asked Adam point blank if he had eaten from the tree that God had said not to. Understand that God here wasn't trying to get His facts straight or get Adam's side of the story.

God gave Adam life, and in return, Adam must perfectly obey God. As long as Adam obeyed, life would continue. The bad news is that you were born into the misery that Adam unleashed. Adam was "a pattern of the one to come (v14)." the original Adam.

Dig Deeper In verse 22 Paul addresses our dual solidarity by writing, “For as in Adam all die, so in We all die in Adam, the first human, in that we are united with him in sin and death. With that first disobedience in the Garden by Adam and Eve, sin entered the world. We, as Adam’s descendants, inherit this original sin. However, despite being united with Adam in sin and death, God offers grace.

24 (NIV) CONTEXT: After the fall into sin, God curses everyone involved: the serpent, the woman and Adam Here's what happens next: 20 Adam named his wife Eve,  because she would become the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the Lord But lest you think Adam and Eve sulked out of their garden home with their heads hung down in sorrow, No, Adam and Eve didn't exit the garden in humble repentance; they were forced out, and man's job as

The Bible identifies the first man, Adam, as the one who introduced sin into the world . Although Adam stood before God pointing his finger at the woman who ' snared ' him and the serpent, the rest of us are quick to point our fingers back at Adam, as if all of the world's subsequent problems But the Teacher reminds us here that all of us have compounded and increased the sin Adam introduced

That word keep is an important word in the Bible: It was what God commanded of Adam in the Garden: to But we know that Adam and all who are in him failed to keep God's world and their own lives holy. This means the only 'ethnicity' welcome in this City are those who are in Christ , who perfectly kept Adam's

Dig Deeper It's not that God ignored the awful sins Adam and Eve had committed. Adam's sin ruined God's good and perfect creation. Notice here that Adam never once asked for God's help. Adam would have kept right on hiding and covering up his shame with fig leaves. But God saw what Adam needed, because God came looking for him.

conscience from the fear, dread, and terror of God’s approach, without doing what our first father, Adam This is how God sees you: as one who has perfectly fulfilled the covenant God entered into with Adam Even though you, me and Adam have failed miserably to uphold our end of the bargain, the new Adam, our