Pain and Pleasure

67. Please read Genesis 2:17, 18. Just previous to the separation of the sexes, when Adam had reached maturity, and was accountable for his conduct, God forbade him to eat of the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Eve had not been “builded” yet, as shown by verse 18; the command was given [...]

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The nature of the Fall and the differing responses of Adam and Eve

32. …“Adam had lost much of his first perfection before his Eve was taken out of him; which was done to prevent worse effects of his fall, and to prepare a means of his recovery when his fall should become total, as it afterwards was, upon eating of the earthly tree of the knowledge of [...]

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Eve’s exposure of the character of Satan—> enmity

71 . …Eve, by her exposure of the character of Satan before his very face, created an enmity between herself and him. What followed was the natural outcome of Eve’s better choice. God proposed to draw the woman yet farther away from Satan. He said to Satan, “I will put enmity between thee and the [...]

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Eve’s Choice and Adam’s. Move over “TRADITION”!

LESSON 9.
EVE’S CHOICE, AND ADAM’S.
65. In a helpful course of lectures on “The Spiritual Criticism of the Bible,” Dr. A. T. Pierson said: “In the intellectual sphere man believes a thing because it is true; in the spiritual, a man knows a thing to be true because he believes it.” If, having the [...]

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