If Adam had not sinned?

If Adam had not sinned?

I have been burning lots of gray matter on the possibilities as to what might have happened, and they are purely speculative. The only thing I can say for certain is that it was part of God's plan for his children. In other words, Adam's sin was meant to happen as an object lesson for God's children in Christ. When Jesus Christ came to earth and died, in his resurrection he revealed this deep hidden secret through the Holy spirit which he poured out upon his chosen ones. One might ask: How can a God of love use the mistakes of those created in his image at the expense of those he chose? God answers this question in his Word:

Romans 15:4 GNB Everything written in the Scriptures was written to teach us, in order that we might have hope through the patience and encouragement which the Scriptures give us.

Proverbs 22:3 GNB Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

Isaiah 29:16 GNB They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, "You didn't make me"? Or can it say, "You don't know what you are doing"?

Romans 9:15-23 GNB For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on anyone I wish; I will take pity on anyone I wish." 16 So then, everything depends, not on what we humans want or do, but only on God's mercy. 17 For the scripture says to the king of Egypt, "I made you king in order to use you to show my power and to spread my fame over the whole world." 18 So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes. 19 But one of you will say to me, "If this is so, how can God find fault with anyone? Who can resist God's will?" 20 But who are you, my friend, to talk back to God? A clay pot does not ask the man who made it, "Why did you make me like this?" 21 After all, the man who makes the pots has the right to use the clay as he wishes, and to make two pots from the same lump of clay, one for special occasions and the other for ordinary use. 22 And the same is true of what God has done. He wanted to show his anger and to make his power known. But he was very patient in enduring those who were the objects of his anger, who were doomed to destruction. 23 And he also wanted to reveal his abundant glory, which was poured out on us who are the objects of his mercy, those of us whom he has prepared to receive his glory.

Ephesians 1:4-11 GNB Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, so that we would be holy and without fault before him. Because of his love 5 God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children---this was his pleasure and purpose. 6 Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son! 7 For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. How great is the grace of God, 8 which he gave to us in such large measure! In all his wisdom and insight 9 God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ. 10 This plan, which God will complete when the time is right, is to bring all creation together, everything in heaven and on earth, with Christ as head. 11 All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.

Revelation 13:8-9 GNB All people living on earth will worship it [the beast], except those whose names were written before the creation of the world in the book of the living which belongs to the Lamb that was killed. 9 "Listen, then, if you have ears!

1 Corinthians 2:7 GNB The wisdom I proclaim is God's secret wisdom, which is hidden from human beings, but which he had already chosen for our glory even before the world was made.

Ephesians 1:9 GNB God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ.

Ephesians 3:9 GNB and of making all people see how God's secret plan is to be put into effect. God, who is the Creator of all things, kept his secret hidden through all the past ages,

Colossians 1:26-28 GNB which is the secret he hid through all past ages from all human beings but has now revealed to his people. 27 God's plan is to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God. 28 So we preach Christ to everyone. With all possible wisdom we warn and teach them in order to bring each one into God's presence as a mature individual in union with Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45 GNB 45 For the scripture says, "The first man, Adam, was created a living being"; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 GNB All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults, and giving instruction for right living, 17 so that the person who serves God may be fully qualified and equipped to do every kind of good deed.

The first fibber

Where did Satan come from and how could God allow such a person to fibb to his creation? Given that Adam's sin was God's will, one comes to the conclusion that Satan was designed by God to do just what he does best; lie. Satan's first lie was so very little but its effect was so damaging. What the lie did was remove the fear of God, it removed the consequences of disobeying his commandments. With that fear removed we see something interesting happen, we see the woman's first desires for something she can gain on this earth, wisdom of a God through something she could see with her eyes, namely the fruit. But notice that it's not until after the woman gives the fruit to her husband that we know they both feel the effects of what they have done. They realize their nakedness, and therefore their sexuality. It is likely that after the woman ate she did suddenly feel a sexual desire for her husband, but because he had not eaten the fruit, his sexual desire was lacking. In her case she felt no shame, because she was deceived into believing it was perfectly fine. Therefore she likely persuaded Adam to eat along with her in order to gain the feelings she was having. Now the woman had yet to see any powerful works by God, all she had to go on was what Adam told her. Adam however had seen the the wilderness wasteland from which he came and he had witnessed the creation of his wife from his own flesh, he had also seen God create animals to which Adam named. So in this case Adam knew better than to listen to his wife. After he ate he came to realize his sexuality and saw his wife and was likely aroused, but at the same time he was also ashamed, in that he knew he had done something very very bad. So with man's knowledge to create life through sex , he simultaneously lost the ability to live forever. It is interesting to note all the sinful behavior that goes along with sex and our desire for things seen with our eyes in this world today. Although there was a tree of life in the garden and although it was free to eat from, what really mattered was for man to continuously obey God, in order to live forever. The trees therefore only had a symbolic meaning. God expelled Adam from the Garden because it would be an oxymoron for God to allow Adam to eat from the tree of life after he promised him he would die for eating from the forbidden tree. Moreover the point of placing mankind in the Garden was to show us the difference between what our Father will do for us if we obey him and the difficult time we will have if we disobey. Suppose Adam had not sinned? We'll talk about this in the next posting "God willing".

Adam's Sin Was God's Will.

This is an analysis of Genesis Chapters one, two, and, three on Adam and Eve, from what I could discern from my interlinear Bible project found at http://www.UnravelingTheWord.info (note that the English text is read as Hebrew: form right-to-left). First of all we must understand that at one time there was never such a thing as chapters and verse in the Bible. Each book consisted of a continuous scroll of un-pointed un-punctuated Hebrew text. This fact is helpful in understanding how the many stories in the Bible are written. Generally a story is first summarized, then the significant details are presented thereafter. So if we look a the creation account with these facts in mind we see that in Chapter two it starts out with God resting on the seventh day from all his work from the previous six days of creation and then it goes into detail about the sixth day when God created Adam and Eve. What we see, seems as if Adam is created before any plants or animals, as if no animals existed on the earth, and then God creates the animals and brings them to the man to name. It is likely, however, that God created Adam in a region on the earth which was desert like in nature and at first void of trees or animals in order to show Adam a distinction between what good God can give him and what bad there can be without God's guidance. Adam was simply in a place where no animals or plants yet lived, and the Garden was likely made this way too, in a place surrounded by desert. So the animals existed, just not where Adam happened to be. It also seems as if the Garden was planted after Adam was created but it was likely planted before he was made. It is therefore likely that Adam spent a sufficient amount of time outside the garden in order to know where he came from, before he was placed in the Garden where he would have food and shade. After his sin he was to till the ground he was originally made to till but rather than having to tend to the beautiful fruit trees as found in the garden, he is to tend with thorns and thistles working on his own power to get food to grow, then die in the place he was made. Thus a clear distinction between life and death, and good and bad. Adam finds out the meaning of the difference between the knowledge of good and evil. The knowledge of good is for Mankind to obey God and the knowledge of evil is for mankind to disobey God. That simple! We find that the garden was made in order to discipline Adam in this way, we also find that because Adam and Eve were without shame before they ate they at least came to know about sex after they ate and what sex was for, namely to make children. Because of these facts we are forced to conclude that Adam's sin occurred on the sixth day and not as most assume on the seventh. Notice that after Adam sins he gives his wife the name Eve which means life-giver, because she was to become the mother of everyone living. But notice also that after God created both the male and female humans in his image, as found in Genesis Chapter one, we see that they are commanded to fill the earth, the place Adam was taken, and to subdue it, then we see the sixth day end on a very good note. This all shows that they sinned on the sixth day, not the seventh, it shows that Adam was set up to fail in order to be disciplined, and it shows that it was all very good in the eyes of God. Another line of evidence pointing to God's will for Adam to sin, is that Adam's expulsion from the Garden is foreshadowed by God after Adam is given his wife found in Genesis 2:24, one way to translate it is that Adam would forsake his Heavenly Parents and become one with his wife, but this would extend to Adam's sons too. And we know that Adam and Eve must have both existed on the sixth day from Genesis 1:27. (more to come)

Strong's Number Generator in Java

Just wanted to say thanks to my friend Chad, for his expert advice in Java programming. I needed to generate a list of the 7863 links to each Hebrew word found in the King James Bible Strong's Hebrew Dictionary on the web. It took about 30 seconds per link to do by hand so this will save lots of time. One of the problems I was having was remembering how to compile the code ($ javac StrongsHTMLHebrew.java); and run it ($ java StrongsHTMLHebrew) from the command prompt in the terminal. I was trying to use something called Xcode on the Mac mini. Here's the code but if anyone wants it they will need to copy it by hand, because it's in html format.


import java.io.*;

public class StrongsHTMLHebrew
{
public static void main(String[] arguments) throws IOException
{
File outputFile = new
File("StrongsHTMLHebrew.htm");
FileWriter out = new
FileWriter(outputFile);
int j=0;
for (int i=1; i<=8673; i++)
{
if (i>1 & i%100 == 1)
j += 1;
out.write("<a
href=\"http://www.sacrednamebible.com/kjvstrongs/STRHEB"+ j +".htm#S"+ i +"\"style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single\">"+ i +"</a>\n");
}
out.close();
}
}