Just when everything seemed to be going right these first humans mess it all up. They just couldn't leave well enough alone. No matter how good they had it they felt they were missing something. They had to have something more. Hm...sounds a lot like me, actually. If I'm honest I have to admit that if Adam & Eve had not sinned...and somehow all the generations of men and women after them had not sinned...and it finally got to me...I would have. Sad, but true.
I couldn't help but notice that almost immediately after the "Fall" God begins to explain to people the need for righteousness...that to be accepted by God requires perfect obedience to His will. He says this to Cain in 4:7 - "If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” How successful have I been to "rule over it"? Not very. Already, it seems, God is pointing to the need for a Savior.
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