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To: MHGinTN; mdmathis6
I believe the phrase from Genesis refers to ‘eat thereof and live forever in their fallen state

Perhaps you can help me here. I've been looking for some scripture that says that Adam was in a fallen state after he ate the forbidden fruit. Genesis says that Adam and Eve were naked before they ate it and they were naked after they ate it, the difference was that their eyes were opened.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Their nakedness signifies a lack of righteousness. Did God intend man to spend eternity in this condition?
356 posted on 05/17/2015 4:51:27 PM PDT by Seven_0 (You cannot fool all of the people, ever!)
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To: Seven_0

I guess we’ll find out. The righteousness of Adam and Eve stemmed from the fact that they had not previous to the “fruit” incident actually eaten of it per God’s command. It wasn’t the nakedness or knowledge of it per se. The Fig leaf issue was a psychological reaction to their own guilt, hence demonstrated countless times and ways in humans ever since. Christ said that in the resurrection that men and women “are as the angels in heaven, neither married nor given in marriage”. If we are as the angels in heaven, then the glory of God may very well be our only true clothing. I say take Revelation at its own word for now that while ruling on the Earth with Christ, there is some type of clothing the saints will wear...as for after the 1000 years...we’ll just have to wait and find out. Our consciousness will be altered as will our ability to sin in our new bodies and mindsets. The lusts of the eyes and flesh will no longer beset us, so as to whether clothing will matter or not we’d just have to wait and see. As to whether or not God intended from the beginning for humans to remain naked is really a mute point for we did sin from the garden onward. Until the resurrection, we wear clothes.


357 posted on 05/17/2015 9:00:12 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (If Hitler, Nazi, OR...McCarthy are mentioned in an argument, then the argument is over!)
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To: Seven_0

If we had not sinned in the garden or passed the test and did not eat of the forbidden tree is also a mute question now...at some point we would have grown as a species and matured into something truly wonderful; reading about what happens in the resurrection gives us some clues as to what God had planned for us from the beginning.


358 posted on 05/19/2015 3:51:32 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (If Hitler, Nazi, OR...McCarthy are mentioned in an argument, then the argument is over!)
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