ARE YOU RIGHTEOUS ENOUGH TO ESCAPE? - MEASURE AGAINST GOD'S STANDARDS

HOW DID IT BEGIN?
Many people are not sure if they need saviour or not. Many are so confused that they see things of God as "Controversial and complex to understand". This is another lie from the enemy of God, who always seeks to misrepresent God as confusing being, and cruel judge seating on heavens; pointing finger of judgement on mankind. On contrary, thing of God are simple to understand and are presented as plain truth. They are so clear that everyone who is in search for truth, will find it. Let us now make journey through word of God to see whether Man need saviour or not and why!

To understand this well we need to study life from Man's creation, to our day. How life started and why we are in chaotic world, where every evil is present. The Bible contains all answers to these questions. I encourage you to go with me in this study until we conclude the matter. Let us start by asking question; where did first Man come from. We know that there must be the first Man from whom all other men came from. Yes there was! But puzzling question: where did He come from? Man has tried to answer this question in various ways. But there are two popular theories; Creation and evolution. This will be discussed on another page but to summarize, no one, who is intellect enough to ask for evidence will buy a lie of evolution. It is neither scientific, nor logic! The only true theory remains is creation. The Bible has the answer for our question:

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

(Gen 1:26-27 )

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Gen 2:15-17 )

Now we have an answer that, God made man after His own Image. We now know that God made man to have dominion over God's creation on earth. We also know that God created Man, male and female He created them. The word of God goes on saying that Eden was the first place Man lived here on earth. It was wondeful garden planted by God Himself. Man's task was to dressit and keep it. No toil to eat, everything went smoothly. Word of God tells us more that God set rules regarding trees in the garden. God gave Man to eat every tree of the garden with exceptional of tree of knowledge of evil and good. He told them the very day that they will eat, death will have the door to human race. Here was Man's choice: eat the fruit and rebel against God, or abstain from it and be obedient to God. Now we have summary of how man came to exist. The next question is, did Man continue to be faithful to God? The scripture once again contains answer!

Gen 3:1-5 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Here the Bible introduces us another creature, the serpent. The most notable thing here is that; the serpent is introduced as "He" and not "It". This shows us this serpent is a personal rather that animal. The Bible defines this old serpent as the devil and satan. Book of revelation gives us insight of this serpent: Rev 12:9 "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. So we see this serpent conversating with the woman questioning God's rules by saying "Hath God said?" then this creature point to woman that God was liar, and that He selfishly forbid them to eat that tree beacause He knew that the day they will eat they shall be gods! What the devil was trying to persuade woman to do is very clear: "This is hidden secret I give you woman! God is so selfish that He have forbidden you to eat the tree. Trust me if you eat that tree you shall be as God Himself knowing good and evil" We see here seducing character of this most subtle beast! Next question will be: What was womans response to the devil? Who did she choose to believe and obey ? Who was true between the devil and God? Let's go on! The scripture have got the answer!

Gen 3:6-7 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Scripture is very clear that woman chose to believe the devil. The tree that she used to shun, was now looking attractive. She now saw that tree contained wisdom! He forgot everything God told her. Without any evidence she chose to believe the devil! She ate the fruit and gave to her husband and he ate it also. Let me clear a hoax that is well spread that the fruit here symbolizes sexual organ and eating the fruit is sexual intercourse! Only fool can believe that. If God is real, man is real, and serpent is real, why fruit be symbolic? Another refute is that Woman ate the fruit herself, alone! this ridicule that theory. Also in midst of Garden were two trees (Gen 2:9). It will be ridiculous to say that was symbol of two sexual organs on same creature. This theory is fabricated lie to justify sexual perversion. Another lie from the enemy!

Let us go back to our study. We see here that when they ate the fruit, their eyes were opened! Then you can ask the question here: Was the devil right? For he told them and it happened. Remember God and the devil cannot be right at the same time. One must be right and another wrong! Let us take what they both said and see what was true. God said, if they will eat the fruit they will surely die. The devil said they will not die for sure! Then one will ask himself, who was right then? Scripture have an answer!

Gen 3:8-13 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Gen 3:14-19 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Gen 3:22-24 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Here we see that God, as He usually did, visited Man on Eden. For the first time we see Man hiding from his creator! For the first time fear enters Man. God asked Adam whether he had eaten the forbidden tree. This doesn't mean that God didn't knew that. Adam knew that God have seen everything and he tried to make excuse for his sin. This behavior have been inherited by all Man kind, children of Adam. God then turns to another Adam, the woman. She also had excuse for her sin! "The serpent beguiled me". No body is confessing here! All are trying to throw their sin to another. But what is God asking here? Is simple question that only demand yes or no! The question is: "Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" In other words God is telling Man that Have you rebelled against my law? This is always a difficult part of accused person before the judge!

We see here very strange thing happening. God didn't question "serpent hast thou done this?" But why? You cannot get an answer until understand words of Lord Jesus on John 16:11 "Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged." Serpent, or satan as we saw earlier, is already judged. He predated existence of Eden and His judgement was pronounced earlier before Eden. We will see this more in my coming teaching on satan, arch-enemy of mankind and God. So here God was prophesying to satan than to pronounce judgement. He was foretelling him what is going to happen next, in the move. He was telling His enemy that "You think you can defeat my purpose, but my will shall stand and I will do whatever I want for I'm the LORD God" You can say, wait a minute! Where are those words? I will show you what God meant by His words

We see here God cursing serpent, and making very outstanding prophecy ever "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed" Note the word seed here. Woman produced many seeds including me and you. But God meant one special seed among seeds of woman, shall bruise the head of satan himself (note the word thy head). So God was saying here, there is special seed, chosen one, that will come to accomplish my will, by first bruising your head. This chosen seed is "The Anointed one", messiah in Hebrew and Christ in Greek. Here is very first promise of God to do His will through seed of woman. As we will study More under the teaching Messiah in escatology, this seed is only hope to Man. Satan understood what God said. That's why throughout history he have been fighting against this seed. He had many attempts to destroy this seed through Cain, Essau, Herod and so many others. But God is sovereign and He is in control!

Second to be dealt was woman. God sentenced her, that, he will multiply her sorrows in bringing forth children. Here we see for first time sorrow entering the scene. Birth is with pains and full of sorrows. Another curse to womani was "thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." This, God's statement here drives feminists crazy. God put this curse on woman, that her desire (her longing, craving, demand for gratification)will be her husband! Not only that, but her husband shall rule (reign, have dominion, govern, have power) her. This was curse and not God's original intention " I will make him an help meet for him" Man is to be ruler and Woman servant. So were these curses place upon woman.

Last to be dealt was man. It is not amazing God started asking Adam first when things went wrong, because He was leader on the first Marriage and was directly responsible to God for his marriage. Woman was to be a helper! This distribution of authority will be more explaine in coming teachings under Maritology. Adam's sin was exalting her wife over God by obeying her than God's command. That made him transgressor and riped what he sowed. "Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life". Land is the source of all income. Minerals, computers, food and all thing you see, have one connection or another to the ground. Here God cursed all source of income. He goes on elaborating that thorns will grow on land and by sweat (toil)man will live until the day he die. This curse was accompanied with remainder that Man is dust. What does this means? This reminds us that, although God have given us all we have, He remains to be God and we Men. Not otherwise. In other words God is saying here, you cannot be gods, you will remain Men!

Let's go back to our question we asked before: God said, if they will eat the fruit they will surely die. The devil said they will not die for sure! Then one will ask himself, who was right? We have the answer in scriptures. What if you find in "Ex Edenian News" headlines "Elohim's Statement Fulfilled" and you turn to pages to see what happened. And as you open first page you find these words " Being predicted many years by LORD God in garden of Eden that Men will die by reason of transgressing His law, at last those words are today fulfilled in our very eyes. The Adam's family have witnessed first death of their beloved son. There were heard mournings and cries over the whole family......" You can start thinking what Mother could have said! May be If I only listened to God! If only I couldn't have eaten the tree! But it is too late to reverse. Perhaps you think this is fiction! You are wrong! it really happened! Though not in the way I put as Magazine, but it happened! Scripture records this first murder in Genesis 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. First death on Earth since creation! We can conclude from this scripture that God was right and satan was wrong. He lied to Woman and caused her to sin! From there the world which was once in peace and harmony at Eden became chaotic world and evils started slowly dominating the Earth.

Before go any futher, let us review some facts we have seen so far. That God created Man in His Image, Male and Female he created them. satan beguiled Woman through his subtility and made her believe wrong way, and hence led to fall of Man, both Male and Female. And that God, through His love, promised "special seed" born of woman to accomplish His plans for which He created the universe including destruction of His enemy, satan. And that God pronounced just sentences and curses upon Man, including death. And that due to way God created Man as soul body and spirit, that death meant soul will die, body will die and spirit will die. Having known these we can now go further to explore what happens to our day. The question remains: Does we need saviour, and why? But one Mystery is solved and facts established. Man is now sinner doomed to death, physical death of body and everlasting death of Soul and spirit.
MEASURE OF WHAT IS RIGHT BEFORE GOD - LAW OF GOD IN TEN COMMANDMENTS
How can we know what is right and what is wrong before God? What is sin? What is wage of sin? These might be your questions. If not ask yourself those questions and try to answer them. It will be easier to know if we need saviour (somebody to save us) if only we are in danger that None of us can save. The only thing will make us need another body to pay for us is when we cannot pay back debt that bank owes us. The Bank doesn't care where money comes from! What it needs is legal Money. Any counterfeit money will not be accepted. We don't need somebody to pay for us if we can do it! Having those concept in Mind, let's find out whether we need saviour or not!

God provided standard law for every human. These laws are widely known as "Ten Commandments" As Moral Absolutes. They are laws by which God judges whether you are guility before him or not. It is by these laws God pronounces His judgement upon human race. If that is the case, that those are "Laws of God", before checking ourselves against them, let's define another mysterious word, "sin".

Scripture defines sin as transgression of law: 1John3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. To transgress is to offend by

violating a law. But which law is being talked about here? Scriptures gives us answer in the book of James 2:9-11

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

We see here the law being talked about; Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not Kill....the Ten commandment. Scripture tells us that if we keep whole law and only violate one law, then, we are guility of violating whole law for the same is law giver. Concerning this, Apostle Paul wrote:

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Galatians 3:10

That means, even if you keep all nine and violate one, you are condemned! Lets have simple example. Suppose you are a judge, and before you is somebody found guilty of theft according to law governing the country. The law is clear that He deserves three years imprisonment. As law dictates, He is given chance to defend himself and he says, "Your majesty judge, I acknowl

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