That's because they read about it from Mohammed.
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
It's really quite simple, in your self-willed pride (2 Peter 2:9-10), you refuse to admit your error.
Let me explain based upon our interaction of a one who had not heard the Gospel of Christ.
You inquired "The old, 'what about them never heard?' Ever met one?".
To wit, I replied "Far down in your post, you asked if I have ever met anyone who had not heard the Gospel of Christ, and to answer, yes. For example, a muslim named Hamid.".
Then you "It's not possible for any Mulsim reading the Koran, to not have heard of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Muhammed teaches Jesus as a great prophet, and condemns anyone for believing He is the Son of God.".
Then I "You said it yourself, the Quran does not teach the Gospel of Christ.".
Instead of ceasing with that, you persist "That's because they read about it from Mohammed.".
Now, it is abundantly clear that Hamid did not hear the Gospel of Christ, but you fight just to fight. You failed to write something like "Oh, OK". You fight the Truth (John 14:6) tooth and nail with every fiber of you using your self-will (2 Peter 2:9-10) as shown in the following.
That is only my supposition as stated. It is evident Eve did not receive lust, until the serpent actually seduced her.
You did not qualify "The moment Adam allowed the serpent into the garden, that he was told to keep, is when Adam had lust in his own heart" as merely your "supposition", but you "stated" it "as" fact, Gilligan. And, in the next part of this post, you continue on as if your statement is fact.
True, however long he was lusting was the moment God knew He was doing so, even as the moment He saw the lust in Lucifer's heart.
However, only when we follow thru with the lust to do it, are we dead by the commandment.
And so the commandment of God not to eat of it, was not transgressed unto death, until he ate of it.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
The Christ of us Christians says "
No one is good except God alone" (Lord Jesus Christ, Mark 10:18), so Adam was not good.
Sin is crime against God, that is, missing the mark.
Adam did not sin prior to eating of forbidden as food because Adam had one commandment as recorded in "Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat; and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it — dying thou dost die" (Genesis 2:16-17).
Just because Adam did not sin prior to eating of the tree forbidden as food, and this is certain because of Christ's sayings.
Sin is distinguishable from good.
Sin is distinguishable from evil.
Sin is an action, a verb for communication purposes.
Good is a thing, a noun for communication purposes.
Evil is a thing, a noun for communication purposes.
Adam was not GOOD. Truly, Adam was EVIL prior to eating of the tree forbidden as food as evidenced by Adam's arm moving the tree forbidden for food toward Adam's mouth in order for Adam to eat.
Adam was evil before Adam sinned.
He did, for a season. So do many born again Christians, unless we also sin as Adam.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
By your doctrine of imparted will by God into man, that no man can resist, then no born again Christian would sin again in this life.
I've asked you several times, if are an example of that, and you fail to answer, which is your answer. You're own continued sinning in life proves your own doctrine of no free will for man, is false.
You illegitimately mix "sin", a verb, and "evil", a noun, into a single thing. Sin is the output of evil.
Man is evil, and sin manifests from evil man (see "every man" in the passage) as proclaimed in "every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death" (James 1:14-15). Oh, hey, you just mentioned this passage!
Lord Jesus left no exclusion for anyone at anytime with "
No one is good except God alone" (Lord Jesus Christ, Mark 10:18), so Adam was evil.
Although Adam did not sin for a season, eventually evil Adam did sin.
You used "Sophistry" in the negative sense in reference to the quotation of "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31),
and that is sin.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
The problem with preaching one's own gospel, is eventually the same one no longer reads the Bible to confirm anything they say. I've seen it many times, that such false teachers just keep on talking and talking, and then just say the opposite of Scripture.
Your doctrine is not based solely upon the written words of God, but also upon your own vain imagination. You really do think, that just because you believe something and say it, then that makes it so.
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
It is written "God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:21 - notice "it" is singular meaning creation, not a plural "they" as in specific creatures in the waters), so God did not specify any constituents of creation as being inherently individually good therein;
therefore, it is certainly good in reference to God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind before the foundation of the world.
It is written "God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:21 - notice "it" is singular meaning creation, not a plural "they" as in specific beasts), so God did not specify any constituents of creation as being inherently individually good therein;
therefore, it is certainly good in reference to God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind before the foundation of the world.
THEREFORE, THIS REMAINS TRUE:
An inherently good Adam would have assuredly and absolutely excluded eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
BECAUSE an inherently good Adam would have acted in the good way of obedience to God's command (Genesis 2:16-17)
WITH the good way being God's Way (John 14:6)
YET "No one is good except God alone" (Mark 10:18)
AND it is written "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31)
BEHOLD that God saw the whole package, the complete creation, the "all" that He had made, that it was very good
BUT God did not specify how the aggregate (all) that He had made was very good therein
AND God did not specify any constituents of creation as being inherently good therein
AND God creating "all that He had made" for God in Jesus Christ to come to earth to save evil man is very good
SO with certainty, God's Plan of Redemption through the Christ for mankind before the foundation of the world is very good
IN other words, if Adam was inherently good, then he could not have eaten from the tree the knowledge of good and evil
BECAUSE it would have been impossible for an inherently good Adam to disobey God's command of not eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
SINCE an inherently good Adam would have been the embodiment of obedience of God's command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
AND an inherently good Adam would have unquestionably refrained from eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil without him having the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:22)
THEREFORE an inherently good Adam would have done the opposite of good by eating of the tree the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6)
SO an inherently good Adam would have unavoidably avoided eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
BUT there is none righteous, not one (Psalm 143:2, Romans 3:10)
AND there is none who does good, there is not even one (Psalm 53:3, Romans 3:12)
SO there was no inherently good Adam.
Continued to next post
