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1 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | DocTrinsograce | 216571 | ||
Hi, Flinkywood... Such questions cannot be answered from Scripture. Consequently, nothing can be offered save speculation. I guess the speculation itself can be weighed in the light of the Word. However, asking if Adam was "a coward" is a highly subjective. Therefore, you should expect only subjective answers. Nonetheless, if you would like to quote the early church, Augustine exclaims, "O wretched freewill, which, while yet entire, had so little stability!" Or moving ahead another handful of centuries, Bernard of Clairvaux asked, "Since we read that a fall so dreadful took place in Paradise, what shall we do on the dunghill?" In Him, Doc |
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2 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | azurelaw | 216572 | ||
Bernard of Clairvaux asked, "Since we read that a fall so dreadful took place in Paradise, what shall we do on the dunghill?" Amen, Doc. Sadly that most Christians (include me) are so ignorant about it in such a so-call peaceful world. I remember the book (by Neil Postmans) title "Amusing ourselves to death". We are so much alike the apostles who fell asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus urged "keep watching and pray..."(Mat 26:41) Shalom Azure |
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3 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | stjohn | 216575 | ||
Dear Azure, Amen, our inattentiveness will too often put us to sleep. :-( “The call is watch, study, attended to reading. In truth you cannot read too much in scripture, and what you read, you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach, well, you cannot live too well. Therefore dear Sirs pray, study, be diligent.” Martin Luther John |
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