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NASB | Genesis 2:16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely (unconditionally) eat [the fruit] from every tree of the garden; |
Subject: Adam and Eve, no fall from grace? |
Bible Note: Lionstrong, You miss my point entirely. It is this. Adam and Eve were created by God in a state of grace or justice before God. They lost that grace or justice through their sin and the fall. Jesus' saving grace is a restoration of that same grace that makes us just before God. It is called by some sanctifying grace, the grace that makes us holy and able to be in God's presence. It is the grace that is the very life of God in us. If Adam and Eve had that grace and lost it through free will, how can we say that we can not loose it in the same manner by a free will rejection just as they did? Unless Jesus has destroyed our free will in the restoration of grace. I still say your version is tanatmount to saying we have to sin in order to merit sanctifying grace and so is a wierd type of works righteousness. Adam and Eve did not merit the original sanctifying grace and neither do we the same sanctifying grace that is restored to us by Jesus and by which we are justified and saved. I guess we are just talking past each other here. I think I will let the matter rest, having made my point as clearly as I can. Emmaus |