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Show what 1 :24. manner of man we saw. James In the beginning-" God erected in His own image, in the image of God created He him;" "Male and fe male created He them; end blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." "And God cow everything that he had made, and, behold. it was very good." "For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour." "Nevertheless man "the being in honour abideth not:" wages of sin is death:" (Gen. 1 :27; Gen. 5:2; Gen. 1:31; Ps. 8:5; Ps. 49:12; Rom. ... man 6:23.) death upon himseU by disobeying his Creator. (Gen. 2: 17; Rom. 6:23.) Thus we see by the light of God's Word that man who was created good, became a fal!J:en sinner. spiritucrlly dead. He was, also, subject to physical death which would follow after he was driven out of the garden of Eden and shut a way from the tree of life. (Gen. 3:24,) Many people do not think that Ad am's foll from goodness and purity had This is any affect upon our nature. absolutely untrue. What Adam fell to be, we all are of our natural life. From one life we all have our existence. GJd breathed into Adam the breath of life. "Wherefore, as by one man sin en tered into the world, and death by sln: and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" by the of fence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation." (Gen. 2:7; Rom. We now see that God created man in His image, which image was the spiri tual reflection of the purity and good After man was created ness of God. God gave him commandments, which if man obeyed, he would always retain the image of God within himself. The Lord commanded Adam to eat of all the fruit of the trees of the garden except one. He forbade him to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, fortel ling him. "for in the day that thou eot est thereof thou shalt surely die." "For the wages of sin is death." Man brought God and Creator. We became devilish, carnal and sensual by nature instead 2 3 " ... 5:12, 18,) It was not alone Adam and Eve who fell through their tronscression, but all the children of the flesh or the seed of Adam are fallen. In the fall of man kind, the mind. of man became unruly r stubborn, proud and an enemy to his |
