The Story of Adam and Eve

1st Corinthians 15,42-49

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

Commentary:

Adam was familiar with the very presence of God; He visited Adam in the cool of the day, so when Adam fell, he sinned knowing the very presence of God, just as Lucifer did, which was a profound sin, suggesting that Adam may not be with us in heaven. However, we have never seen God, so our sin is not as great as Adam’s sin. Plus, Adam initiated the rebellion, whereas we were innocently born into it. We live in a fallen creation based on our understanding of astronomy. There is no life of any kind anywhere in the universe that we know, except here on earth. All the planets are dead, probably being the case of every planet in the universe. The stars themselves will eventually grow old and die, and so basically it is a dying creation. It is a slow death, but it is dying just the same. Despite these facts, there is no mention of God offering Adam and Eve the universe, only the earth, and so there is no reason based on them that the universe is cursed, and so God must have cursed the universe based on Lucifer’s rebellion. Stars are still burning and so in that sense the universe is still operating; God even cursed the earth at Satan’s rebellion. However, because it is the future planet of God’s throne, the earth’s curse was repressed allowing life to continue, though requiring the Garden of Eden as an oasis from the curse. This describes the human body as well: it is cursed yet it still has the capacity for life. Outside the garden the land was already cursed before God made man, so when He evicted him and his wife, they were forced to make a living among the thorns and thistles. The only way for man to reverse the curse was within the garden; therefore, when God said to the man in Genesis 3,17-19, “Cursed is the ground because of you,” He meant that Adam and his wife were supposed to expand the garden throughout the earth to overtake the curse. However, since they rejected God’s purpose for themselves, the land remained cursed, and God made them accountable for it. This also means God made man from dust that was cursed, and then breathed a perfect spirit into him that staved off the curse from Adam’s body. It actually stands to reason that Adam’s body was made from a cursed material, since God said to the woman that her pain in childbirth would be greatly multiplied, meaning that it would have been painful even if they had not sinned, only to a lesser degree, pain being an aspect of the curse (Rev 21-4). This also is the exact scenario of Christ: He had a perfect spirit but lived in a fallible body, being the reason Paul dubbed Him the second Adam. We know from the above verse that there will be no sorrow or pain in heaven. This suggests a couple things; first, what God offered Adam and Eve does not hold a candle to what He offers us now that Christ has shed His blood to offer us a new and better way into the Most Holy Place. Also, although they lived in fallible bodies, Adam and Eve would have never died had they not sinned, because their perfect spirits counteracted the curse. The same goes for Christ. In fact, His death was a miracle, since He was without sin. Death follows sin, but there was no clause mentioned in the law of sin that allowed for a death without sin; thus, Jesus broke the law of sin through His death (Rom 8-1,2). This means His death gained the victory over the curse and not His resurrection; His resurrection was a mere reification of His endless life, like a bobber that returns to the surface after the fish quits tugging on it.

Abortion

Ex 21,22-25 – If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.  "But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,  eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,  burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.


Abortion, this is pretty clear-cut. The old NASB (uses the word miscarriage) and the King James Version of the Bible uses the phrase “fruit departs from her,” which speak as if the fetus dies. Hebrew OT translates this verse using the words “yatsa' (yaw-tsaw')” meaning to depart, to go, bring out. Most other translations speak about the woman giving birth prematurely, which back in those days was extremely unlikely that the baby was born alive. Do a study on “Innocent blood” Scriptures of the Old Testament. Of course, no one is more innocent than the pre-born baby! Notice, that the man who struck the woman did not have to die as a result of the injury to the woman’s fetus. This passage clearly states that it was an accident, while we know abortion is by no means an accident. Therefore on the one hand, in this case the man who caused the miscarriage will not forfeit his life, because it was an accident. In contrast, it says about the mother, if any further injury occurs to her, you are to prosecute, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life. This suggests that the fetus doesn’t have the same rights as a person in the eyes of God. On the other hand, people cross a forbidden line when they intentionally destroy a healthy living fetus. When we combine the limited rights of the fetus with intentional abortion, we can see why God views it as murder, giving us good reason to interpret the word-study on “Innocent Blood” as the sin of abortion. What can we say about pro-life advocates? They are doing well to advocate for the unborn, particularly when their rivals in the pro-choice camp are sacrificing these potential babies by the millions to the god of convenience and to their hedonistic lifestyles. Pro-lifers attribute full rights to the unborn fetus, which the Bible does not corroborate, while pro-choicers give them no rights at all, so the truth is in the middle again where we usually find it.

From: www.jeansbiblestudy.com

Love is not something you can actually put into words. Paul made an attempt, saying: “love is patient, love is kind.” All he could say is that it is associated with the fruits of the spirit, described in Galatians chapter 5, indicating that all the other fruits are embedded in one, love. So it appears that we cannot experience “Joy” without love, or any of the fruits of the spirit. Being that love seems so difficult to define, it gives rise to the possibility that love is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, suggesting that those who live and walk in love have entered a spiritual state of being. We often receive huge responses from the smallest acts of love, why? We are being like God during those moments, demonstrating the kingdom of heaven. We have been taught all our lives that love is an action. It ultimately is manifested as an action, but love itself is not an action, but a spiritual substance that originates from heaven, being one of the few things the world is willing to receive from us. The best definition of love is that it is the substance of the anointing. This explains why love is indescribable, because no one is able to describe the anointing. God has given us various levers of the anointing in the gifts of the spirit, but without the fruits of the Spirit, primarily love, these levers don’t work.

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