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To: Machaon who wrote (11469)	3/13/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: Ray Emery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

If Adam and Eve didn't have a free will, then why did they eat of the tree when God explicitly told them not to do so? Ray

To: Machaon who wrote (11469)	3/15/1998 10:00:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Bob, I believe that Adam was more intelligent and knowledgeable than any man today. He was using fully 100% of his brain and had a perfect body. God gave Adam dominion over the whole earth and the job of naming all the animals, which Adam did. God created Adam to fellowship with Him, would He being God create a dullard for fellowship? I think not. In Adam's knowledge God did not add the knowledge of good and evil, in other words Adam was a complete innocent. He did not know how to be deceitful or cynical among many other examples of that kind of knowledge. Then God created Eve to be a companion to Adam, The serpent (devil) deceived Eve to disobey God and eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. As soon as she did she realized her mistake and went and confessed to Adam. Now Adam apparently knew the price for disobeying God (seperation from God) but chose to eat also. To make that choice he had to have free will. I think this because Paul wrote that it was not Adam who was deceived but Eve being quite deceived fell into transgression. Adam chose to follow Eve in disobedience. This act of disobedience somehow caused the dominion over the earth that Adam had received from God to go to the devil and that authority was what Jesus took back from the devil when He died on the cross. Jesus was examined and no sin was found in Him. The devil's hold on every soul was sin, when Jesus had no sin He could not be held. The dominion and authority passed to Jesus and He rose again from death and transcended to heaven where He still is sitting at the right hand of the Father waiting for the time to return again. Jesus came the first time to save that which was lost without reference to judgement. The second time He comes it will be to make His enemies a footstool for His feet. Psalms 110 and Rev. 19:11-21