On Truth and Falsity

       The Knowledge of Good and Evil continued

God never directly told Eve that she should not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told only Adam, and Adam told Eve. Genesis 2:15-17 (KJB). This condition put Eve in the state of an innocent child who had been warned by her parents to never talk to strangers, but who, in a moment of trust and weakness, forgot her parents instructions, and who becomes the victim of an abuser who offers her candy. This meant that when Eve ate the forbidden fruit, she sinned, but she was not responsible for her sin. She had been victimized by the Devil.

She knew right away that she had become radically different, and that Adam was still innocent. She became scared and confused, and so she offered the forbidden fruit to Adam so that he would fall to her level and be able to comfort her and protect her. Adam failed her because he forgot to call on God for help. Adam thought that he could take care of the problem himself. A little excessive pride developed in him. Had Adam only called on God, then God would have come to extend His Love and compassion toward Eve, comfort her because she had been victimized, and He could restore her innocence and take away her spiritual death. Adam's first sin, before he even ate the forbidden fruit, was that he forgot to call on God for help. In a moment of self-will and weakness, Adam also ate the forbidden fruit, and the history of the human race began. This means Adam alone became responsible for the spiritual death that the whole human race inherited from him. I Timothy 2:13-15 (KJB).

There were three levels to Adam's sin. First, Adam received a direct commandment from God not to eat the forbidden fruit. So Adam knew that he would commit willful and deliberate disobedience if he ate the forbidden fruit. Adam must have become possessed of a little excessive pride because he thought he could handle his fallen condition even if he disobeyed. I Timothy 2:13-14 (KJB). On this level, Adam's sin was evil. Second, Adam became afraid that he would lose Eve completely. He loved her, and he loved making love with her. In a moment of weakness, he decided to eat the forbidden fruit so that there could be no possibility that he could lose the companionship of his wife. On this level, Adam's weakness caused his sin. When both of their eyes were opened to their new condition of being in a state of spiritual life and spiritual death, they became ashamed of their nakedness because they then felt the sin of lust for each other. Genesis 3:7 (KJB). Third, on this level, Adam did not sin at all. Adam sacrificed himself because of his love for his wife. He fell to her level so that he could protect her and comfort her as best as he could. On this level, Adam became a symbol for Christ Himself. Romans 5:14 (KJB). The progression was from evil to sin to self-sacrifice which happens to be God's story in His Word. II Corinthians 5:21 (KJB).

All through the Bible, God consistently displayed His wrath against evil. All through the Bible, God consistently displayed His compassion for sins of weakness. And all through the Bible, God consistently displayed His Love for humanity in that He would send His own Son who, unlike Adam, would be a perfect human being who would be qualified to sacrifice Himself on a cruel cross, and because of His innocence, would be able to rise from the dead to save the entire human race from sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. All evil is sinful, but not all sins are completely evil. God's only enemies are evil, sin, spiritual death, and the Devil, never living humans whom He creates and loves. I Corinthians 15:20-26; John 12:31-32; John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). God will thoroughly cleanse all humans who become saved by His grace with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and He will annul their spiritual deaths. John 5:24 (KJB). Living humans who fail to become saved by grace, and whom God must confine to the regions of death when they die, God will provide a lesser form of salvation for them when His Son appears to them and causes them to return of their own free will to faith in Him and love for Him as the Lamb of God. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). God will dissolve all of their beings with His fiery wrath against evil, cleanse and separate their living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths so that He can recreate their living souls and spirits with new bodies to live on His new earth. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will cast only their separated, spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire that will already hold the Devil and all of his evil works. I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:11-15; I John 3:8; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB).