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Eric Meyer
BBL 8033B: Christian Foundations
John Brown University
Professor: Dr. Bill Burnett
July 24th, 2008
 
Assignment #3, Scripture Read And Write
 
INTRODUCTION
            Man walked freely out of God’s Kingdom into a world and life that God did not intend man to experience.
Through direct disobedience to her creator, Adam and Eve made the choice to leave the perfect relationship that they had been experiencing with God.
That self imposed separation from God was analogous to walking out of God’s Kingdom.
The story recorded in Genesis describes Satan as a snake speaking to Eve.
I have a picture of Satan that is more insidious.
While not recorded this way, I imagine Satan whispering to Eve, not visible to her.  Eve experienced the temptation the same way we all experience temptation.
She was told by Adam, not directly by God, not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
A thought tickles the back of her mind, “Did God /really/ say, ‘Don’t do that?’
Surely He did not mean I would die if I eat from this tree.”
While it is not recorded in Genesis, it is not hard to imagine Adam experiencing the same whisper from Satan, “Eve ate, and she is unharmed, maybe God really did not mean don’t eat from this tree.”
Though we don’t see Satan visibly, I believe we hear his voice all the same.
While we would like to think an innocent baby could not possibly be burdened with sin, every man is born with the genetic make-up inherited from his parents.
We can see the similar features, and experience the same attitudes and thought processes that our ancestors experienced.
In the same way, we inherit the ability to sin that was in our earliest parents, Adam and Eve.
We live in a world that is not as God intended.
Sin has touched every aspect of His creation.
Separated from God, man has soiled the world.
Strip mines, nuclear waste, and global warming are all visible signs of how man’s selfishness has damaged the beauty that God created.
The important point to understand is that man is the agent of this change.
God has not changed at all.
He is still lovingly caring for His creation, trying to guide us back into a right relationship.
Though we do not deserve the loving care, we receive it nonetheless.
The following outline describes the path man has chosen that lead out of God’s Kingdom, and how our decisions have soiled all of God’s creation.
I.  THE GLORIOUS UNFALLEN CREATION
            Some children look so similar to their parents that there is no way to mistake the relationship.
The same is true of God and what He created.
While we can not see Him, we know quite a bit about Him by observing what He created.
A.
Characteristics Of The Creator
                        1. God is spirit.
Gen.
1:2
                        2. God speaks – Gen. 1:3
                        3.
He is a source of light – Gen. 1:3; John 3:21
                        4. Very good – What God created is good (Gen.
1:25), in fact, it was very good (Gen.
1:31).
Gen.
1:27 tells us man was created in God’s image.
If God’s creation is very good, so must be the creator.
Romans 1:20;  Psalm 8:1
                        5. Exists in multiple forms, “Let us make man in Our image.”
– Gen. 1:26; “Not good for man to be alone” 2:18
                        6. Appreciated beauty – “Every tree that is pleasing to sight” Gen. 2:9; Romans 1:20; God so loved His creation, that He set aside time simply to enjoy it – Gen. 2:2,3
                        7. God is gracious – Romans 5:15
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