If perfect, why did Adam sin?

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Aunty Jane

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The Bible does not say that Adam was perfect [H7760].
It is an interesting word study….
All the creative days have a pronouncement at the end stating that thus far, everything was “good” or from God’s standpoint, coming along nicely.

Each “day” (obviously not 24 hour days, but periods of unknown length as this is also the meaning of the word “yôm”) had a beginning and an end, and each “day” ended with God’s satisfaction……but the end of the 6th day was “very good”, meaning that God was well pleased with his efforts on the completion of his material creation. Everything was as it was meant to be. Then God rested from his creative works but not from working altogether…..free will had to be driven with others in mind and God would teach them the value of obedience to his laws so that no one would abuse their free will at the expense of someone else’s. But we all know what happened and where it has led the human race. God had to take a detour in order for his first purpose to be realized.….but what God starts, he finishes. (Isaiah 55:11)

The 7th day has no declaration, meaning that God has not yet compleated the 7th day. As when the 7th day ends, all will be as God purposed, with sin and all its repercussions dealt with and abolished, freeing redeemed mankind to take up where Adam and his wife failed. The human race will again be given a paradise home on earth, where God meant us to live forever. (Revelation 21:2-4)

A Jewish “day” (like ours) was 24 hours but beginning at sundown, and ending at sundown the following day.
Of the creative days it was said…”there was evening and morning”….not a 24 hour day but one that began with an evening and ended with a morning….or as we would say…”the dawn of a new day”.

I love the creation account because there are new gems that emerge when you read more carefully and use a concordance and an interlinear…..
 
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keithr

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Genesis 3:6 . Adam and eve both par took of tree. Meaning. Satan beguiled eve, they had sexual intercourse. Then Adam had sexual intercourse with eve. It was a Orgy.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve, or Satan and Eve having sexual intercourse. There is only mention of eating fruit from the tree - that was the disobedience and sin, not having sexual intercourse! It is later, in the next chapter (4:1) that it says that Adam and Eve had sexual intercourse, and Eve conceived and gave birth to Cain.

6:13 . Eve tells God the serpent beguiled me. Eve and satan had sexual intercourse. Adam then knew his wife.
6:13? I think you mean 3:13.

Eve had twins. Two different fathers. Get the picture.
Where does it say that Eve had twins? The only recorded children of Eve in the Bible are Cain, Abel and Seth (and in Genesis 5:4 it says that Adam "became the father of other sons and daughters").

Psalm chapter 22. Jesus was crucified on cross. Jesus defeated death, which is satan.
Where in the Bible does it say that Satan is death? Death is God's punishment to mankind for sin (Genesis 2:17, YLT - "for in the day of thine eating of it—dying thou dost die').

And there no apple orchard.
It was a tree of the "knowledge of good and evil" (Genesis 2:17), not an apple tree. It is wrong to assume the fruit of the tree was an apple!

Ashamed of the sexual orgy with satan.
Nonsense.

I won't apologize for telling the truth.
Perhaps you should apologise for telling a lie!
 

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Robert, I think it's safe to say, that despite his perfect nature, Adam as well as Eve were still childlike. After all Eve was perfect too and how could a perfect being be deceived?

They had no knowledge of good or evil prior to eating from the forbidden tree. That's how the serpent was able to deceive Eve. How could she possibly know what she did not know? It seems you're missing the bigger picture for why sin and death through sin were part of God's plan from the beginning for mankind.