Did Adam and Eve know God's Law?

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Hobie

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Did Adam and Eve know God's Law, and how. When Adam was created, God was there and Adam learned and gained understanding of God and His character directly from the source. Eve too, had a primary relationship with God. Everything they saw was created by God. All their activity or 'work' involved the things God had created, which provided a lesson into the will and ways of God. God came and visited with them regularly and walked with them and let them know His will.

To Adam and Eve, the commandments or what pleased God were clear or 'transparent', as one would be with a friend. They patterned their lives after a divine role model or what God did. At the start, it did not even occur to them to do otherwise. Their lives were full what God had given them in understanding and with much joy of having Him with them and purpose. Day by day as they grasped deeper in what is meant, they kept God's Law of love as He was their role model, but just as Satan worked on the angels and made them doubt God, so he brought doubt to man.......

Man was created in the very image of God, and God was his teacher including on everything he was given dominion over.

"And God said. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Gen. 1:26, 27

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Did Adam and Eve know God's Law

What do you understand by " God's Law" ?
They were told not to eat from two trees, they were given a command to fill the earth, to care for creation.
Commands from God, or God's Law.

Adam had a relationship with God that none of us have had, he walked and talked with God in the garden.
We cannot say what he was told, what instructions he had in those conversations.
 

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Yes, they knew not to eat the fruit of that particular tree. That was all the 'law' they needed.
 
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"Did Adam and Eve know God's Law?"

They knew enough to know better.
 
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Did Adam and Eve know God's Law, and how. When Adam was created, God was there and Adam learned and gained understanding of God and His character directly from the source. Eve too, had a primary relationship with God. Everything they saw was created by God. All their activity or 'work' involved the things God had created, which provided a lesson into the will and ways of God. God came and visited with them regularly and walked with them and let them know His will.

To Adam and Eve, the commandments or what pleased God were clear or 'transparent', as one would be with a friend. They patterned their lives after a divine role model or what God did. At the start, it did not even occur to them to do otherwise. Their lives were full what God had given them in understanding and with much joy of having Him with them and purpose. Day by day as they grasped deeper in what is meant, they kept God's Law of love as He was their role model, but just as Satan worked on the angels and made them doubt God, so he brought doubt to man.......

Man was created in the very image of God, and God was his teacher including on everything he was given dominion over.

"And God said. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Gen. 1:26, 27

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The totality of God's law at the time consisted of "don't eat the forbidden fruit."
 
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Hobie

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The totality of God's law at the time consisted of "don't eat the forbidden fruit."
No, God talk to them of it, as you can see in what He went over with Cain, it was not about eating 'forbidden fruit'...
Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
 

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There are a lot of speculative assumptions here that have no basis in the biblical account. The point of the account, regardless of whether you think it is historical or not, is simply that they knowingly disobeyed a specific command of God, which is pretty much the very definition of sin. There are plenty of other themes - human pride, free will and its consequences, the deceptiveness of evil, the holiness-tempered-with-mercy of God, etc. - but all we really know about Adam's and Eve's circumstances is the bare Genesis account. I always find it interesting that the very first human couple, despite having a direct relationship with God, couldn't keep the simplest of commands.
 

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God put morality in all men so they know certain things are wrong such as murder, lying, stealing, etc.

They certainly knew that disobeying God was a sin because God help them accountable for doing so.