![]() God never said they couldn’t touch it or they’d die, but if they ate of the fruit. Eve told him that God said, “You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die”(Gen 3:3), so now Eve added something that God never said. When the serpent, the Devil, came to Eve, she told him that they could not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, so Satan said, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’” (Gen 3 10), casting doubt on God’s good word. They still had a relationship, but even that wouldn’t be the same. ![]() ![]() The Fallen ImageĪfter Adam and Eve chose to go their own way by rejecting God’s command to not take to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, their fellowship with God was severed. It takes the Spirit of God and being in the Word of God to become more like the Living Word of God, Jesus Christ. He would have much to do with how the image of God in us became marred by sin, and it would never be the same…at least until thousands of years later. He wanted man to be the image of God in heaven as mankind ruled over earth, but there was a problem a real snake in the grass you might say. God didn’t create man after the ape kind but after his own kind and in the image of God He created them. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth’”(Gen 1:26), “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him male and female he created them” (Gen 1:27). After God had created everything else, including all other life, “God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. When God created the living creatures like the insects, birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, they were nothing like what He created in mankind. How can we be transformed into the image of Christ as we’re told to do? The Image of God
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