A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part eight

 The Theologian: God warned Adam and Eve that if they sinned by eating the forbidden fruit, they would die that same day. When they sinned, they became weak which allowed Satan to inject spiritual death into their inner beings which is the unreality that attaches to all false combinations of real ideas which in their case was their sins. At that time, the whole world became infected with unreality. That same day, Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves together to hide their nakedness, and they hid from God when He came to visit them in the evening. They became ashamed of the unreality that now attached to their inner beings. They did not directly feel the unreality, but they did feel that their innocence and their acceptance by God were now equal to the real idea of nothing. Their actions displayed their spiritual deaths. They felt that they could no longer fellowship with God because they knew that their Holy God hates all evil. Separation from God because of the unreality of evil constitutes spiritual death. Read Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:1-8, Romans 5:12, and II Corinthians 4:4.

Betty: So what did God do about their spiritual deaths?

The Theologian: When God came to visit them in the evening, He called them out from their hiding places and talked with them again. By doing this, God demonstrated that He did not desire to lose fellowship with their living souls and spirits that He had created in His image. God also demonstrated that He had already forgiven them. God only needed to find a way to thoroughly cleanse them of all sin and spiritual death so that He could fully fellowship with them again. As God talked with them, He revealed to them and Satan the future method He would use to cleanse them and save them, and the rest of humanity, from permanent spiritual death and the sins that cause it. God desired to save all of humanity from the power of the Devil. Read Genesis 3:1-13 and Mark 11:25-26. Would God ask humans to do anything He would not do Himself? Read Luke 23:34.

Betty: So what was the method that God would use to cleanse and save them and humanity from sin and permanent spiritual death?

The Theologian: God cursed Satan and the ground which held the bottomless pit from which evil had emerged to first infect Lucifer and then through Satan the whole human race. God did not curse Adam and Eve, and by extension all of their descendants, because He still loved their living souls and spirits that He had created in His image. God knew that the fallen human race could not save itself, but He could. God promised Adam and Eve, and by extension the whole human race, that He would send them a future Savior. God spoke to the Devil when He said this, and Adam and Eve heard Him. God told the Devil that this Savior, who would be the seed of the woman only which meant He could not inherit spiritual death from Adam, would be injured by the Devil but he would survive, and this Savior would crush the Devil's head, meaning He would permanently purge the Devil and all evil from all of His future recreations. The fact that God spoke directly to the Devil and allowed Adam and Eve to overhear Him demonstrated the fact that God's wrath would always be directed against Satan and evil itself and never against living humans whom He creates and loves. Although God gave temporary, earthly punishments to Adam and Eve and all of their descendants, He also promised Eve that she would be the mother of all living, and since God can never lose anything He has ever created, and He happens to be the God of the living and not the dead, then God actually promised Eve that He would save the entire human race from permanent spiritual death. Read Genesis 3:14-21, Ecclesiastes 3:14, and Luke 20:38.