THE ADAMIC NATURE - PART 1

 THE ADAMIC NATURE - PART 1

Genesis 2:8 "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.",

Genesis 3:8 "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden".

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We all understand as believers that the ADAMIC nature is man's nature to sin or better still the nature of sin, as we see in Genesis 3 when man being tempted of the devil; fell and lost his inheritance in the garden of Eden.

But we must understand also that the ADAMIC nature as was created by God wasn't created to sin. From God's word, we understand in Ecclesiastes 3:11, that everything HE makes is beautiful and wonderful.  We see this also in Genesis 1:31 " and God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good". After He had created all including man; he looked at his creations and all was good. This makes us understand that his intention was never to make man a creature of sin; instead the Bible makes us understand he even gave man total control over everything in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1:28-30); every beast of the earth, every fowl of the air; all things that creepeth upon the earth and every green herb. All things were given to man to dominate. 

The Bible also made us understand that before God created man; he first looked at himself and said "let us create man in our own image, after our likeness" (Genesis 1:26). God's image is the image of Righteousness and Holiness as we see from His Word. Psalm 92:15 paraphrased "To shew that our God is upright and there is no unrighteousness in Him". According to Ephesians 1:10, "for we are His workmanship;  the products of his hands, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath ordained...".

But why then did MAN's NATURE change from the Original intent of God?

We see in verse 7 of Genesis 2; "And the Lord God formed man of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul". 

The "breath of life" here is The Father's breath as we see in Ezekiel 37:5. Man became a living soul after this order until the enemy who is the form of the serpent came and tore man away from his inheritance.  If man was a living soul; why was he then vulnerable to the wiles of the serpent.  We see from scriptures (1Thessalonians 5:23), that man constitutes of the body, the soul which is the mind and the spirit which is the candle of God (Proverbs 20:27). The latter is what HE uses to see into us and communicate the content of his hearts. *1Corinthians 2:11 "For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of GOD".

Romans 8:16 "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God".

We see from scriptures also that the spirit is God's connection with us. When He speaks to either warn, to bring revelation or cause us to understand certain things; he does it to our Spirit-man; He reveals it to our spirit man. But at that time of creation,  man did not need to have the Spirit of God in him because according to the Word; the Garden of Eden was the presence of God. Verse 8 of chapter 3 "and they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day". 

The Bible makes us to understand that it was His habitation with man. Genesis 3:24 says "So he drove out the man and placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims". Cherubims are God's own angels that surround His throne; thus man was driven out of His presence.  At that time, there was still the presence of God with man so He didn't have to need the Spirit inside of him. Genesis 6:3 "And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man..."

But we see from the scriptures in Genesis 3 that the serpent could only gain access to man because he was outside of HIS presence. We see this when God called out to Adam while he was hiding away from the presence.  We will come to understand that if the serpent was in the midst of the other creatures and Eve also away from the forbidden fruit; she wouldn't have had to give in to the devil or cause her husband to give in also. Yes, man was made in the likeness of God but was still vulnerable in the sense that He could still be tempted by the devil. Psalm 82:5 "for thou hast made him a little lower than the angels". Man was never meant to have failed in the garden of Eden if not first his desire (Genesis 2:20 "but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him. And Adam said this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh"_): the spirit of disobedience (Genesis 2:16-17 "And the LORD God commanded man saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die"); and  the wiles of the devil which caused him to fall and became responsible for his woes (Genesis 3:4-5 "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil"). 

After God commanded man to not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that he would die thereafter. Man forgot about this commandment the same way He is forgetting about it today. We must understand that we must obey fully to be able to enjoy fully.  We see in the latter verses of Genesis 3; God dealt with man regardless of the means by which he fell short (Genesis 3:12). In the same vein, He has given us the Holy Spirit to put us in check just as He was to man in the garden of Eden (John 16:7-8 " Nevertheless I  tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I  go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness,  and of judgement). But, because man found an alternative to The Presence, the same way He is doing today in that He chose the comfort of another to that which is of God; he loved the presence of another than that of the Father; he wanted that something extra and thus became vulnerable to the devil's devices (Genesis 3:6-7).

2 Corinthians 2:11

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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