DAILY WORD "...and the truth will set you free.."

We can trace "the Garden of Paradise" in the first book of the Bible, "Genesis" which is the seed plot of the Bible, the book of beginnings, which starts with the sacred statement of the reality of the existence of an omnipotent eternal god, the author of nature. Genesis is the earth's earliest written history. Genesis is an introduction to the whole Bible and is foundational to the understanding of the reality of human being.  It presents God as the Creator and Founder of all things. Genesis explains the origin and purpose of everything from the physical presentation of the creation of all physical matter, culminating with the creation of humankind. God created heaven and earth, light and darkness, seas and skies, land and vegetation, sun and moon and stars, animals (sea, air and land) and human beings. God created Adam and Eve in His image and placed him in the Garden of Paradise and gave them dominion over everything. God's desire was to have a real fellowship with man, and this true fellowship must be the result of one's free choice. God did not create puppets or robots, and therefore man had to be tested to choose his own will.

Man was subject to Divine government and obedience was all that was required. God gave Adam every herb bearing seed to eat except of the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil", for "in the day that thou shalt eat thereof thou shalt surely die".

What is the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil"?

God wanted Adam to totally depend on Him and trust Him. Unfortunately, man chose not to rely on God's guidance and leadership, but rather on his own choice of good and evil. Eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, meant rejecting God's lordship and guidance and transferring control of one's life from God to oneself.

How did Adam and Eve sin and what happened? We will discus this tomorrow.

Prayer: Dear God, help me to live for you and teach me to reply on your guidance and leadership rather than on my own choice of good and evil. Lord, I ask for your lordship over my life. Thank you, Amen.