In the garden of Eden story in the Bible, Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent, and neither Adam nor Eve blamed God.
Adam and Eve knew the commandment of God, they also knew the consequences, and yet they ate the forbidden fruit anyway.
And when God came on the scene on their judgment day, what did Adam and Eve do?
"And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." (Genesis 3: 8)
Does this story sound familiar?
For more than two thousand years, people have heard the Gospel of Christ, just as Adam and Eve heard the truth in the garden of Eden.
Therefore, people have heard about sin and the consequences of it, and they do it anyway while believing they will get away it.
Unlike Adam and Eve, however, people today blame God---while the devil gets away with murder, pornography, pedophilia, prostitution, and the human trafficking of women and children for money, drugs, and rape.
But on the other hand, people do as Adam and Eve did: they look for a place to hide from God, a place that will provide a cloak for their sin---while believing that if God cannot find them, then God will not judge them.
While hiding beneath their cloaks, they blame God for everything that is wrong in the world today while rejecting personal responsibility for the consequences of their own choices.
God, however, has something to say to people hiding amongst the trees:
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." (2nd Corinthians 6: 17-18)
Adam and Eve knew the commandment of God, they also knew the consequences, and yet they ate the forbidden fruit anyway.
And when God came on the scene on their judgment day, what did Adam and Eve do?
"And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." (Genesis 3: 8)
Does this story sound familiar?
For more than two thousand years, people have heard the Gospel of Christ, just as Adam and Eve heard the truth in the garden of Eden.
Therefore, people have heard about sin and the consequences of it, and they do it anyway while believing they will get away it.
Unlike Adam and Eve, however, people today blame God---while the devil gets away with murder, pornography, pedophilia, prostitution, and the human trafficking of women and children for money, drugs, and rape.
But on the other hand, people do as Adam and Eve did: they look for a place to hide from God, a place that will provide a cloak for their sin---while believing that if God cannot find them, then God will not judge them.
While hiding beneath their cloaks, they blame God for everything that is wrong in the world today while rejecting personal responsibility for the consequences of their own choices.
God, however, has something to say to people hiding amongst the trees:
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." (2nd Corinthians 6: 17-18)
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