What is the lesson that we are here to learn as a result of disobedience in the Garden of Eden?

[RepentingChristian]

I think most Christians would say that the lesson is to obey God. I believe that's true, but I think the lesson is deeper than simply obeying, especially obeying through fear. I think the deeper lesson for us is to learn to TRUST God. Right?

Why did A&E eat the forbidden fruit? They didn't trust God and because they didn't trust him they disobeyed him.

Obviously, their Earthly lives changed radically after their banishmement from the garden. They lived long but difficult lives. We have inherited their world through their sin. For us to enter the Kingdom, we must put our faith, hope, and trust in God's emissary, our Lord and Savior, the Christ, Jesus. I think this life teaches us that the ONLY path to true happiness and fulfillment is by TRUSTING Jesus.

Am I understanding correctly?

 

[Lambano]

Lesson learned? Don’t listen to talking snakes.

 

[quietthinker]

I think most Christians would say that the lesson is to obey God. I believe that's true, but I think the lesson is deeper than simply obeying, especially obeying through fear. I think the deeper lesson for us is to learn to TRUST God. Right?

Why did A&E eat the forbidden fruit? They didn't trust God and because they didn't trust him they disobeyed him.

Obviously, their Earthly lives changed radically after their banishmement from the garden. They lived long but difficult lives. We have inherited their world through their sin. For us to enter the Kingdom, we must put our faith, hope, and trust in God's emissary, our Lord and Savior, the Christ, Jesus. I think this life teaches us that the ONLY path to true happiness and fulfillment is by TRUSTING Jesus.

Am I understanding correctly?

Eve was deceived but Adam made a deliberate move to disobey.
The lesson is, misery and death await alienation from the Creator.....even while thinking one is onto a good thing. Judas is a case in point.

 

[Davy]

I think most Christians would say that the lesson is to obey God. I believe that's true, but I think the lesson is deeper than simply obeying, especially obeying through fear. I think the deeper lesson for us is to learn to TRUST God. Right?

Why did A&E eat the forbidden fruit? They didn't trust God and because they didn't trust him they disobeyed him.

Obviously, their Earthly lives changed radically after their banishmement from the garden. They lived long but difficult lives. We have inherited their world through their sin. For us to enter the Kingdom, we must put our faith, hope, and trust in God's emissary, our Lord and Savior, the Christ, Jesus. I think this life teaches us that the ONLY path to true happiness and fulfillment is by TRUSTING Jesus.

Am I understanding correctly?

Yes, you are understanding that on one level. But there's more levels that link with that understanding.

Men's traditions are those who try to claim the very first sin was by Adam and Eve in God's Garden of Eden. That is not true Biblically. Lucifer is who did the very first sin, in the 'old world' when he rebelled in coveting God's Throne which was his job to guard.

When you read God's parable about the "king of Tyrus" in Ezekiel 28, you are actually reading about a history that goes way prior to the time of Adam and Eve. God uses the "king of Tyrus" as a TYPE for Lucifer there.

That Ezekiel 28 parable tells us that God originally created Lucifer 'perfect in his ways', until iniquity was found in him, i.e. that he rebelled. If you are familiar with God's pattern given to Israel for making a copy of the Ark of The Covenant, the two winged cherubim upon the ark, Lucifer was originally one of them, guarding the Mercy Seat, that Ezekiel 28 parable reveals.

The specific sin that Lucifer did, was in wanting to be GOD and worshiped in place of GOD.

So did Lucifer's sin back in the 'old world' have something to do with God bringing this 2nd world earth age and setting up the stage for sin in the flesh by Adam and Eve? Yes, otherwise, and think about it, how else would The Father bring His Son Jesus Christ, God The Savior, in the flesh to die on the cross to save us?

Many brethren have never read that Ezekiel 28 chapter that points to Lucifer with the "king of Tyrus." They also have a hard time understanding those events God gave there pointing to Lucifer happened prior to Adam and Eve's day in God's Garden of Eden. But when "that old serpent" goes to tempt Eve, he had already sinned before that and had fallen.