Saved by Faith not Works

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:8-10) NKJV

Some people take the tree of life in Eden to mean that Adam’s first body was intended to die, and that the tree of life would be made available to him at some point as a reward for good behavior.

June 26, 2020January 30, 2021

Why was There a Tree of Life?

Sunlight filtering throught leave of a knarled tree in the fall

And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
(Genesis 1:29-30) NKJV

The last thing we want to clear up is this: when God said to Adam, regarding the tree of knowledge, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Adam didn’t die. As we saw yesterday, he began to die. Biological senescence started.

June 25 – Dying You Shall Die

“in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Adam didn’t drop dead the moment that he ate the fruit, he lived for 900+ years. Is this a contradiction?

June 26, 2020January 30, 2021

The Fall is Coming

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
(Genesis 3:6-7) NKJV

The issue that complicates resolving this right now is that something has to happen which changes an intelligent bipedal reptilian humanoid into a limbless snake.

June 26, 2020January 30, 2021

A Talking Snake?

And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
(Genesis 3:2-5) NKJV

Atheist science trolls (ASTs) like to ask probing questions which make Christians look stupid. Let’s as a question of our own: Where in the passage above does it say that Eve talked with a snake?

June 26, 2020April 9, 2022

Declaring the End: Cause and Effect

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
(Isaiah 46:10) KJV

Interpreting Bible passages works best when we understand something referred to as the broad narrative. There are some prevailing themes which are consistent from one end of the Bible to the other and back again. With this in mind we can make sense out of Bible passages which may otherwise look totally random.

June 26, 2020January 30, 2021

Good for Food

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
(Genesis 2:8-9) KJV

Here’s an example of a common Christian-bait question:

IF Adam had fruit to eat in the garden of Eden,
- AND the other animals were all herbivores,
THEN why do snakes have venomous fangs?

June 26, 2018June 29, 2022

June 26th

Vegetarian Silurian?

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
(Genesis 3:1) NKJV

What was the serpent in the garden of Eden? Some say Satan, but this isn’t possible nor is it a conclusion that we can deduce. We (that’s me and the Holy spirit) propose that the serpent in Genesis 3 was a bipedal reptilian humanoid.