That I May Know Him Journal

How amazing it is to me when I reread part 1 after God revealed "The Beginning The Age of Innocence" and logically what fruit it was that Adam and Eve ate in the garden. Then tying these posts all together. What are the attributes of the fleshly man vs. the spiritual man. Which is pleasing to God, and which attributes do you possess?  There is a choice that we each have to make. You can be like the first carnal man or you may choose to become the blessed second man by submitting your will to God the father.  In making this choice it is a life changing experience from that point on. Exactly, what is it about the first man that displeases God?  Let's take a look back at Cain and Abel.  In Genesis 4 there was something more than a murder that took place.  In my thoughts both sons were born of Adam and Eve.  Surely, they both were told the stories of life in the Garden of Eden, and the events that changed their entire way of living.  How through their...

There are seven dispensations throughout the bible that divides different time periods of God's work and purposes toward man.  In this study I am going to focus on the very first dispensation which was known as the age of innocence.  When God created man and woman, they knew no sin.  They only had one commandment they must follow and that was do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Before God even told them the one thing forbidden, he first told them all the things they could do and have in the garden.  Genesis 1:28-29 lists them as the following: 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.   29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is...