Saved From All Things Mortal Part 2

Did Eve and Adam disobey God? Of course they did!  But did Eve and Adam eat the forbidden fruit in “the understanding of evil”?  Most likely, the answer is “no”.   It was more a sin of omission or oversight.  In God’s eyes however a sin is a sin and God gave them consequences for their act of disobedience.

Let’s look at Genesis 3 more closely.  Imagine having a “conscience” with no scruples or awareness of good or evil or who is Holy and who is Evil.  

Here is naked Eve without a care in the Garden of Eden and here comes Satan in a disguise.  He is in a disguise that would make most people want to grab a shovel or run the opposite direction but not Eve.  Satan doesn’t come as some cuddly, fluffy animal but a cold slithery snake.  Eve, unafraid, gives the “Serpent” a grand tour around the garden and before she knows it, Satan leads her into his trap to have her and Adam eat the forbidden fruit of good and evil. 

Considering Adam and Eve’s mindset, Satan might as well been a hungry fox in a chicken coop with two fat blind chickens. 

We know Eve eats the fruit from the forbidden tree, gives some to her husband, and before they know it they are stringing fig leaves together to cover what they deem the more “private” areas of the their body, hiding from God and pointing accusing fingers.  Adam sulks.  Eve... now fearful is staying as far as she can away from the snake she just had lunch with a few moments before.

No wonder why God says, “From now on, you and the woman will be enemies, and your offspring and her offspring will be enemies. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” Genesis 3:15

Talk about the mind job… Talk about saying bye bye to Kansas. Talk about tumbling down the rabbit hole.

The Knowledge of Good and Evil 
Satan accomplished these things that day.

• First, he managed to have Adam and Eve to become instruments of evil by having them disobey God.
•  Second, like a pregnant woman whom is a drug addict passes her addiction to her baby, the forbidden fruit did not just poison Eve and Adam’s conscious’ but every generation since.
• Third, the fruit set up a “logic or reasoning” dictated by the severely ill equipped understanding of flesh.  Man and women took the knowledge of good and evil and started defining it by the instincts of the flesh. 
•  Fourth, Satan unknowingly destined a greater system of prudence in the Spirit-filled believer, knowing the predisposition/bias of the flesh. (What the enemy intended for evil God turned to good.)   

This knowledge of good and evil that pulses through our weak and ill-equipped helms of the human understanding - ultimately causes all men and women to sin and violate what they know as good and right.  One might say, the make-up of our “system” was unable to digest or process the knowledge (of good and evil) in a constructive means and the output came out corrupted. 
  

The body made a corrupt law of it’s own.  This law continues until this day, where we see people and culture deliberately disregarding and violating and putting down what God put in place for stability and prosperity of the soul.  The law of sin has become a cancer to society… a cancer- society is willing to let spread allowing it to destroy itself.  It’s as if society- by accepted one evil has caused-welcomed “six” more evils- more hideous then the first. 

The book of Jeremiah 17:9 says, "The human heart is the most deceitful of all things and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?"   

The human heart also has to do with the understanding of the heart.  That is why the bible tells us to not depend on our own understanding for even though the heart has been changed in the Christian the "human" understanding is still corrupt. 
 We know from our unchristian past, the sinful ways of the flesh that echo and resonate in the world became the counsel over our lives until Christ came into our life- changing our heart and giving us His Spirit.  WE, humanity, were appointed by the Father God to care for and populate the earth but we became slaves to the ways of the corrupt/wicked understanding of the flesh until we sincerely surrendered our lives before God and accepted Christ.

Galatians 4:1-7

 “Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.  Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.  But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.  And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”  Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”