GOD gave all His sentient beings of creation (Angels & Mankind), the gifts of a 'Free Will, Power of Reasoning, and Ability of Discernment'. With these gifts GOD allowed His sentient beings to choose for themselves what they wanted to do, even if He told them not to do something, His permission was to allow them to do whatever they wanted, and therefore it was not their decision to disobey GOD that was the sin, but the reason for the disobedience is what constituted that sin, as it does all sins. The snake tempted Eve to disobey GOD by telling her that if she ate from the 'Tree of Knowledge', she would become as great as GOD, and the reason He forbid Adam to eat from that one tree. So Eve ate the fruit of the 'Tree of Knowledge' to become as great as GOD, because she had 'ENVY & JEALOUSY' of GOD, which is the actual sin, and Adam followed her disobedience for the same reason. It didn't matter who was told what, it only mattered that they both had the sin of envy and jealousy in their hearts, which caused their disobedience, which GOD had allowed by giving them a free will.
GOD also cammanded Lucifer, the greatest of all His Angels, and all the rest of His Angels to serve Mankind. But Angels, also being sentient creations of GOD, where also given the same gifts as Mankind, a 'Free Will, Power of Reasoning, and Ability of Discernment', and with these gifts GOD allowed His sentient Angels to choose for themselves what they wanted to do, even if He told them to do something else, His permission was to allow them to do whatever they wanted, and therefore it also was not their decision to disobey GOD that was a sin, but the reason for their disobedience is what constituted the sin.
Lucifer told GOD that he would not serve Mankind, because he was greater than Mankind, and therefore Mankind should serve him, as a third of all the Angels agreed with and followed Lucifer's declaration. Their sin was 'PRIDE', and the reason they were all thrown out and banned from Heaven, for they refused to serve the lesser, and therfore were void of love.
GOD is the embodiment of 'LOVE', and He loves all of His creation, and expects honor, worship, and obedience in return for His love from all His creation, especially His sentient beings that He has gifted so much to. For 'LOVE' is the greater serving the lesser, which Jesus taught His Apostles at the time of the 'Last Supper' by Him washing their feet, as well as all the examples of what He did during His ministry on Earth of curing the sick, driving out demons, and multiplying the food to feed the people, was actually in reality the serving of Mankind. GOD still serves Mankind today by providing miracles for many, and this planet that exists, precariously so, only to provide a place for Mankind to exist and live. The Earth is one of three planets in our solar system that has a circular orbit around the Sun, while the rest have an eliptical orbit, which would not allow a constant eco-system to support life, and the other two circular orbitting planets' orbits are in a position around the Sun where they too could not provide an eco-system to support life. The Earth's orbit is 93 million miles from the Sun, and the tilt of the Earth's axis that creates the seasons provide a difference of just three thousand miles change in the closeness of one hemisphere campared to the other in distance from the Sun that causes the change in seasons. An alignment of the planets of our solar system could cause gravity pull alignment to change the Earth's orbit, or cause it to wobble affecting the weather of the seasons, maybe destroying the eco-system of life, or a strike from a passing comet or huge astroid could extinguish all life on Earth, yet GOD prevents these from happening in serving Mankind, which shows us His true 'LOVE' for all Mankind.
Cool Breeze wrote:
To All You Christians! Houston we have a problem! A feminist and I got into a theological debate. She said that God didn't command Eve not to eat of The Tree of Knowledge he told Adam. I researched this premise and she's correct! This philosophically speaking presents a unique problem. If this is true then Adam is an idiot. God specifically told Adam! Eve didn't know. Why did Eve get the worst of the deal? Pastors are welcome to respond to this one. Comments? P.S. this womeb blew me away!
To All You Christians! Houston we have a problem! ... (
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