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821 | Was Eve really tricked? | Gen 3:1 | Hank | 83213 | ||
Eve fell prey to Satan's method of temptation which he has used to deal with man since the Fall: [1] Question God. [2] Contradict God. [3] Attempt to surpass God by seeking some imaginary good above and beyond what He has offered. [4] Disobeying God is the final result. ..... The areas of Eve's temptation were appetite, beauty, and pride or ambition. Compare to 1 John 2:16. Temptation may take many forms, but it always is an effort on the part of the tempter to lure man to act independently of God by going his own way and doing things his own way. "I did it my way" is the theme song of the natural man. "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. [Proverbs 14:12]. --Hank | ||||||
822 | Dd Satn confrnt Eve bcaus she ws weaker? | Gen 3:1 | Hank | 89230 | ||
Eve may have been the object of the attack by the sneaky snake, Satan, because she was the weaker one and in need of the protection of her husband. (cf. 2 Timothy 3:6). The sense of the narrative invites the inference that the serpent found Eve alone when he tempted her and seduced her into taking of the forbidden fruit. Then, in Genesis 3:6, "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate, and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate." Alhough Eve was sinless up to this point, she was not immune to temptation. Compare the successful strategy Satan used to tempt Eve with the unsuccessful strategy he used to tempt Christ in Luke 4:1-13. Do you see any parallels? And the account of the fall is a classic study in passing the buck. When God brought them to account, Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent. Man is still unwilling to take responsibility for his sins and tries to pass the buck when he is caught with his hand in the cookie jar :-) --Hank | ||||||
823 | three philosophies of religion | Gen 3:1 | Hank | 132642 | ||
LSmith: The three philosophies of religion? Perhaps if you would reveal where and by whom you were exposed to the idea that there are, in fact, three philosophies of religion, it would serve to clarify your question. As it stands, it's difficult to determine what information you're searching for. Supply a little more background if you can. --Hank | ||||||
824 | Is temptation "reasonable"? | Gen 3:1 | Hank | 177260 | ||
Lona - Genesis 3:1, while laying the groundwork for the temptation of Eve that follows, does not of itself constitute temptation nor does it treat of the "reasonableness" of it. Please revamp your question, adding a little muscle and sinew to the skeleton, because the question as it stands doesn't give us much to go on. A clear question stands a much better chance to evoke a clear answer! --Hank | ||||||
825 | Were Eve's desires sinful? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 5326 | ||
Eve (and Adam) were not sinners from the time God created them. What then caused them to become sinners? Was it the serpent? Or was it something having to do with the power to choose? Eve clearly had a choice. She could listen to the serpent and thereby fall prey to his trickery, or she could listen to God. The serpent (Satan) didn't make her do what she did. She had the power to choose, and she made her choice in complete awareness of what God had said she must not do. Her sin, like all sin, can be reduced to the common denominator of disobedience of God's commands. Eve was obviously unwilling to accept responsibility for her disobedience, so she blamed the serpent. Adam was likewise unwilling to accept his, so he blamed Eve. The buck passing had begun....Satan used every trick in his arsenal to tempt Christ and failed. Satan failed because Christ chose to obey the commands of God the Father. Adam and Eve chose to disobey. God is still around. Satan is still around. The choice of whom to obey is still around and is ours to make. --Hank | ||||||
826 | What was Eve's sin? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 5350 | ||
Lionstrong, are you saying that we no longer have free will to choose, or that because of our fallen nature, we do not have it to the extent that Adam and Eve did before the fall? Is it any harder, or easier, to resist temptation today than it was for Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden? How does the Bible speak on this issue? --Hank | ||||||
827 | When did Adam become a sinner? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 92557 | ||
Adam became a sinner at the moment when he made his choice to disobey God by eating of the fruit which God had commanded him not to eat. Scripture does not say how much time elapsed between the time Adam decided to eat the fruit and when he ate it. Whether it was a matter of seconds or hours doesn't really matter. Adam became a sinner at the moment he decided in his heart to disobey God. Jesus' teaching on adultery in Matthew 5:27,28 illustrates this principle of sins of the heart. --Hank | ||||||
828 | Why were Adam and Eve unable to resist? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 92806 | ||
This question is poorly framed because it contains the assumption that Adam and Eve were not able to resist temptation. If this were true then God issued a command that was impossible for them to obey. Leave off the "why" in the question and you have "Were Adam and Eve unable to resist temptation?" The only viable answer is no. If the answer were yes, then Adam and Eve could not justly be held accountable for their sin and would lead to the inevitable conclusion that God created puppets and not creatures in His own image. --Hank | ||||||
829 | Why did Adam eat the apple too? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 135608 | ||
Newbie - Adam ate the apple? The Bible doesn't call the tree an apple tree nor its fruit an apple, and neither should we! The Bible calls the tree "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" [Gen. 1:17] and that is what we should call it. ....... Janae has posted the appropriate Scripture, but Scripture itself doesn't dwell on the details of the why. We know the serpent lied to Eve [Gen. 3:4], deceiving her [Gen. 3:5], she fell for it, ate of the forbidden fruit and gave it to her husband Adam and he also ate of it [Gen. 3:6]. Verse 6 concludes by saying "she gave also to her husband WITH HER." I emphasize the words "with her" in order to suggest the possibility that Adam may have been present with his wife during her conversation with the serpent and instead of guiding his wife away from the serpent and his lies and toward the commands of God, Adam also may have liked the idea of becoming like God. Another possibility is that Adam was not present at Eve's encounter with the serpent, but that Eve spoke to her husband in glowing terms of her discovery of how to become like God, and that Adam bought her story. But these are mere possibilities garnered from a very scant set of facts. What we do know for sure is that both Eve and her husband disobeyed God, and at that moment became sinners. And they became afraid and hid themselves from the presence of the Lord [Gen. 3:8]. And they became something else too. They have the ignominious distinction of being the first buck passers in history! Adam blamed his wife for his sin. And Eve blamed the serpent for hers [Gen. 3:12,13]. Neither was willing to take personal responsibility for what they both had done. ...... And buck passing has continued from that day to this. It shows up in personal relationships, in business, in government, and even in the church. ...... We don't have to follow the example of Adam and Eve. We don't have to run and hide when we sin. We don't have to pass the buck. The Bible says, "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" [1 John 1:9]. --Hank | ||||||
830 | Why did Adam eat the apple too? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 135609 | ||
Newbie - Adam ate the apple? The Bible doesn't call the tree an apple tree nor its fruit an apple, and neither should we! The Bible calls the tree "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" [Gen. 1:17] and that is what we should call it. ....... Janae has posted the appropriate Scripture, but Scripture itself doesn't dwell on the details of the why. We know the serpent lied to Eve [Gen. 3:4], deceiving her [Gen. 3:5], she fell for it, ate of the forbidden fruit and gave it to her husband Adam and he also ate of it [Gen. 3:6]. Verse 6 concludes by saying "she gave also to her husband WITH HER." I emphasize the words "with her" in order to suggest the possibility that Adam may have been present with his wife during her conversation with the serpent and instead of guiding his wife away from the serpent and his lies and toward the commands of God, Adam also may have liked the idea of becoming like God. Another possibility is that Adam was not present at Eve's encounter with the serpent, but that Eve spoke to her husband in glowing terms of her discovery of how to become like God, and that Adam bought her story. But these are mere possibilities garnered from a very scant set of facts. What we do know for sure is that both Eve and her husband disobeyed God, and at that moment became sinners. And they became afraid and hid themselves from the presence of the Lord [Gen. 3:8]. And they became something else too. They have the ignominious distinction of being the first buck passers in history! Adam blamed his wife for his sin. And Eve blamed the serpent for hers [Gen. 3:12,13]. Neither was willing to take personal responsibility for what they both had done. ...... And buck passing has continued from that day to this. It shows up in personal relationships, in business, in government, and even in the church. ...... We don't have to follow the example of Adam and Eve. We don't have to run and hide when we sin. We don't have to pass the buck. The Bible says, "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" [1 John 1:9]. --Hank | ||||||
831 | What was gained? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 136114 | ||
Hello again, Newbie - Sin takes many forms. Ultimately all sin, regardless of form, is disobedience of God's commandments. It is rebellion against God. We cannot presume to know what went on in the mind of Eve when she partook of the forbidden fruit and passed it on to Adam. Neither do we know why Adam took and ate the fruit that Eve offered him. So often in Scripture God paints in broad strokes, as He did in the Genesis account of the Fall. We simply don't have all the details. We are not told whether Eve and her husband were acting in open rebellion against God. We do know that God commanded them not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and told them they would surely die if they did. Scripture tells us that the serpent deceived Eve. He lied to her and she believed him. Had she not understood God's commandment, had she forgotten it, or did she both understand and remember yet believed the serpent instead of God? What about Adam? Same quesions, had he not understood God, had he forgotten what God said, did he want to please his wife more than God? We simply don't know the answers to all these questions. We do know that Adam and Eve disobeyed the commandment of God. Do all the details really matter? We know that they fell and were cast from Eden and through them sin and death came into the world: "for since by a man came death, by a man came the resurrection of the dead, for as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive" [1 Cor. 15:21,22]. ..... Christ did not die merely to cleanse us from Adam's sin, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23] and "just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned" [Romans 5:12]. By Adam's fall paradise was lost. By Christ's death on the cross, paradise is regained by those who believe in Him. Other Scripture references that I have used in preparing this post are the first three chapters of Genesis; 1 John 2:16; and 1 Timothy 2:14. ..... Soli Deo Gloria! --Hank | ||||||
832 | Would Adam and Eve have fallen? | Gen 3:13 | Hank | 186954 | ||
Hello, Vincent - Interesting question, but calls for speculation. This is one of those "what if" kinds of questions that tickle our fancies but don't do much else. "What if" Noah's ark had sprung a leak at the height of the massive storm? "What if" TV had existed in Apostolic times, would the Apostle Paul have appeared on Meet the Press? See what I'm driving at? Such questions are interesting. But don't teach us much about Scripture, do they? --Hank | ||||||
833 | why did Jesus call Mary 'woman'? | Gen 3:15 | Hank | 129510 | ||
Twice Jesus addressed his mother Mary as 'woman' -- at the wedding at Cana in John 2:4 and from the cross in John 19:26. Word scholars who look into such things tell us that the word Jesus used which comes to us translated as 'woman' was not as cold and distant as it sounds in this context to modern readers of English. Instead, the word as Jesus used it was a title of respect, much akin to our word "lady." Some commentators have suggested that Jesus did not address Mary as "mother" because she had to recognize Him not so much as a son that she had raised but as the promised Messiah, the Son of God. Even though Mary gave birth to Jesus, she stood in as much need of a Savior as any other human being. --Hank | ||||||
834 | Was woman ever suppose to be liberated? | Gen 3:15 | Hank | 176359 | ||
Dear minmin43 - Genesis 3:15 is the first of the great messianic prophecies of the Bible. It foreshadows the gospel of Christ, revealing as it does three fundamental truths: (1) Satan is the enemy of mankind, (2) God would put a spiritual barrier between Satan's people and His people, and (3) that the representative seed of the woman, i.e., Christ, would deliver the deathblow to Satan, but in so doing Christ would Himself be bruised on the cross which led to the eventual crushing of Satan and his kingdom. ..... The passage has nothing whatever to do with "women's lib" but everything to do with God's graceful provision for the liberation of humanity from sin. --Hank | ||||||
835 | What does this relate to? | Gen 3:15 | Hank | 194135 | ||
Resplendent - Welcome! and thanks for your first post. .... This verse, Genesis 3:15, has long been recognized as the first messianic prophecy of the Bible. In looking over the various resources on this verse that are in my library, I favor John MacArthur's because I believe he does a fine job of exposition of this verse, clear without being hyper-technical, and I can do no better than reproduce here what Dr. MacArthur wrote as a footnote to Genesis 3:15. ..... "After cursing the physical serpent, God turned to the spiritual serpent, the lying seducer, Satan, and cursed him. This 'first gospel' is prophetic of the struggle and its outcome between 'your seed' (Satan and unbelievers, who are called the Devil's children in John 8:44) and her seed (Christ, a descendent of Eve, and those in Him), which began in the garden in the midst of the curse passage, a message of hope shone forth -- the woman's offspring called 'He' is Christ, who will one day defeat the Serpent. Satan could only 'bruise' Christ's heel (cause Him to suffer), while Christ will bruise Satan's head (destroy him with a fatal blow). Paul, in a passage strongly reminiscent of Gen. 3, encouraged the believers in Rome, 'And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly' (Romans 16:20). Believers should recognize that they participate in the crushing of Satan because, along with their Savior and because of His finished work on the cross, they also are of the woman's seed. For more on the destruction of Satan, see Heb. 2:14,15 and Rev. 20:10." ...... I do hope that this will add to your understanding of Genesis 3:15 and its significance as the greatest story every told unfolds in the greatest book ever written. --Hank | ||||||
836 | where there men on earth before adam ? | Gen 3:20 | Hank | 74552 | ||
The creation account of Genesis leaves no reason to speculate that there ever was a pre-adamic race of men. --Hank | ||||||
837 | Father of cain is? | Gen 4:1 | Hank | 134888 | ||
Cain was the son of Adam and Eve. See Genesis 4:1. --Hank | ||||||
838 | was can born of the devil or of God | Gen 4:1 | Hank | 149833 | ||
Dear Herky: "Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a man child with the help of the Lord." [Genesis 4:1]. --Hank | ||||||
839 | Was Cain the son of Adam? | Gen 4:1 | Hank | 166712 | ||
drbloor: Where did you come across a BIBLICAL claim that Cain was not Adam's son? There may indeed be all sorts of wild speculations extant about Cain's lineage in secular works, but the word of God settles the matter once and for all in Genesis 4:1. And this being a forum that accepts Scripture as the sole authority in the matter, there really isn't any point in considering foolish theories about Cain's parentage, is there? --Hank | ||||||
840 | Cain and Abel twins? | Gen 4:2 | Hank | 179448 | ||
piddlin - The boys may have been twins since no time element intervenes between Genesis 4:1 and 4:2. The literal reading of 4:2 is, "and she continued to bear his brother Abel." We know that the boys were siblings; whether they were twins does not add to or detract from the point of the narrative and thus is not particularly pivotal. There are far more weighty issues involved in the Cain-Abel narrative than whether they were twins. With reference to the second part of your question, Scripture does not tell us how much time elapsed between the birth of Cain and the birth of Abel. --Hank | ||||||
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