Relationship to God - Disobedience

From our Introductory Post:

“The righteous have sat back and allowed the wicked to take over our relationships to God, families, churches, governments, schools and colleges, journalism, entertainment, sports, sciences, and a whole litany of other endeavors in our society.”

Relationship to God - Disobedience

Our previous post discussed our relationship to God as Creator. Sadly, in fact on the saddest day in human history, our first parents, Adam and Eve, disobeyed the one and only prohibition God had given them.

One of the key principles of Bible study is something called “The rule of first mention.” Disobedience of God’s commands by humans is first found in Genesis chapter 3. Read the entire chapter to get a grasp of the enormity of this event.

Actually, we need to back up to Genesis 2:17 to understand exactly the Lord’s expectation for Adam. “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Notice that this commandment was given to Adam before the creation of Eve. God apparently expected him to instruct Eve.

The Downward Slide

1) The serpent (inhabited by Satan) came to Eve questioning God. “And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 3:1b).
2) Eve, obviously confused, tried to quote Scripture, but ADDED to it. “2. . . We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, . . .” (Genesis 3:2b, 3)
3) The serpent called God a liar. “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:” (Genesis 3:4)
4) The serpent further lied to Eve by promising her that she and Adam could become godlike. (Genesis 3:5)
5) Eve fell for the serpent’s lies by eating the forbidden fruit, and Adam willingly followed her in the disobedience. (Genesis 3:6)

Summary

Thus, we have seen how all of our problems and all of the bad things happening in this life had their beginning. We will explore more of the effects of this disobedience in following posts.

I remain yours in the name of Jesus Christ, the Creator and Name above every name.

“Mr. Phil”