The Beginning: The Age of Innocence
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...