God is Creator, Designer, Sustainer. God created man- Adam and Eve. He designed them, He sustained their life on earth as He does all mankind. He gave man a nature that could choose to be disobedient, choose to go against His will, to do evil. Man was created with the ability to choose good and evil. He had fellowship with the Father yet he chose to eat the forbidden fruit. He knew the consequence of his choice and took and ate anyway. Man chose to sin. Now man's natural choice is to sin, to choose sin, to choose to sin.
Adam sinned and then he hid from God. He ran from fellowship with God. Guilt, shame, fear, and bondage were a result of Adam's natural choice. There is no record that Adam or anyone else sought God from then on. They were always rebellious, in fact, God said that 'every thought and intention of their heart was evil continually'.
God sought Adam. God called Adam. God provided a covering for Adam. Why did Adam 'accept' this covering from God? Does it say God gave Adam a choice to accept or reject God's covering? No- God formed the man, God put the man in the garden, God commanded the man to not eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. When man sinned God made a covering and clothed him in it. God sent him out of the garden- He drove him out of it which was an act of grace. The man has had no choices so far in regards to life and death (physically or spiritually) except the one he made wrong.
True salvation is a creation of new life. It is a resurrection of a dead spirit to a living spirit. It is a miracle of God. Only God can bring something dead to life. Only God can create new life.
Adam sinned and passed the sin nature to all people. God provided the solution, the covering in His Son. Only a miracle by God, through His Son can make us alive. We must be made alive, be brought to spiritual life in order to believe and live for Him.
Next we will look at Lazuras.
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