Did Adam and Eve know God's Law?

[Hobie]

Did Adam and Eve know God's Law, and how. When Adam was created, God was there and Adam learned and gained understanding of God and His character directly from the source. Eve too, had a primary relationship with God. Everything they saw was created by God. All their activity or 'work' involved the things God had created, which provided a lesson into the will and ways of God. God came and visited with them regularly and walked with them and let them know His will.

To Adam and Eve, the commandments or what pleased God were clear or 'transparent', as one would be with a friend. They patterned their lives after a divine role model or what God did. At the start, it did not even occur to them to do otherwise. Their lives were full what God had given them in understanding and with much joy of having Him with them and purpose. Day by day as they grasped deeper in what is meant, they kept God's Law of love as He was their role model, but just as Satan worked on the angels and made them doubt God, so he brought doubt to man.......

Man was created in the very image of God, and God was his teacher including on everything he was given dominion over.

"And God said. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepth 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

Some things to think about...

 

[Matthias]

Adam and Eve didn’t know the Mosaic law.

 

[Windmill Charge]

Did Adam and Eve know God's Law

What do you understand by " God's Law" ?
They were told not to eat from two trees, they were given a command to fill the earth, to care for creation.
Commands from God, or God's Law.

Adam had a relationship with God that none of us have had, he walked and talked with God in the garden.
We cannot say what he was told, what instructions he had in those conversations.

 

[Pearl]

Yes, they knew not to eat the fruit of that particular tree. That was all the 'law' they needed.

 

[Jack]

"Did Adam and Eve know God's Law?"

They knew enough to know better.

 

[StephenBravo]

Did Adam and Eve know God's Law, and how. When Adam was created, God was there and Adam learned and gained understanding of God and His character directly from the source. Eve too, had a primary relationship with God. Everything they saw was created by God. All their activity or 'work' involved the things God had created, which provided a lesson into the will and ways of God. God came and visited with them regularly and walked with them and let them know His will.

To Adam and Eve, the commandments or what pleased God were clear or 'transparent', as one would be with a friend. They patterned their lives after a divine role model or what God did. At the start, it did not even occur to them to do otherwise. Their lives were full what God had given them in understanding and with much joy of having Him with them and purpose. Day by day as they grasped deeper in what is meant, they kept God's Law of love as He was their role model, but just as Satan worked on the angels and made them doubt God, so he brought doubt to man.......

Man was created in the very image of God, and God was his teacher including on everything he was given dominion over.

"And God said. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepth 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

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Yes, there is something to think about

 

[JohnD]

The totality of God's law at the time consisted of "don't eat the forbidden fruit."

 

[Gottservant]

My understanding is that Adam and Eve fulfilled the Law in perfect fear of God.

 

[Hobie]

The totality of God's law at the time consisted of "don't eat the forbidden fruit."

No, God talk to them of it, as you can see in what He went over with Cain, it was not about eating 'forbidden fruit'...
Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

The totality of God's law at the time consisted of "don't eat the forbidden fruit."

Just wait... the SDA peoples will work in going to church on Saturday somehow!

 

[Gottservant]

My understanding is that Adam and Eve fulfilled the Law in perfect fear of God.

Specifically, the fear of the presence of God.

Now we have the fulfilment of the fear of God in His manifold Spirit, in Jesus.

 

[O'Darby]

There are a lot of speculative assumptions here that have no basis in the biblical account. The point of the account, regardless of whether you think it is historical or not, is simply that they knowingly disobeyed a specific command of God, which is pretty much the very definition of sin. There are plenty of other themes - human pride, free will and its consequences, the deceptiveness of evil, the holiness-tempered-with-mercy of God, etc. - but all we really know about Adam's and Eve's circumstances is the bare Genesis account. I always find it interesting that the very first human couple, despite having a direct relationship with God, couldn't keep the simplest of commands.

 

[Big Boy Johnson]

God put morality in all men so they know certain things are wrong such as murder, lying, stealing, etc.

They certainly knew that disobeying God was a sin because God help them accountable for doing so.

 

[Hobie]

Adam and Eve didn’t know the Mosaic law.

Well since he hadnt been born yet that would a given. But Gods Law is the question...

 

[Matthias]

Well since he hadnt been born yet that would a given. But Gods Law is the question...

Given at Mount Sinai.

 

[Hobie]

Given at Mount Sinai.

And yet from Creation as we find and even see in the days the manma fell..

 

[Hawkins]

Even humans' own legal system assumes that children somehow "don't know" law. A two year old shot his brother with a gun won't be sentenced.

God tried to keep Adam and Eve as innocent as possible, such that they don't subject themselves to the Judgment of Law. Satan was doing the opposite, trying to wake them up to be subject to Law making them sinful as judged by Law.

 

[Hobie]

Adam and Eve didn’t know the Mosaic law.

That's why I asked about God's Law...

 

[Pancho Frijoles]

In a more general sense, everything God speaks and commands can be referred as the law or laws of God.
In a stricter sense, it is the set of laws given through Moses.
The Law of Moses was always within the Law or laws of God. They did not run in separate lanes.
We hear God saying to Ezekiel:

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

So, everything that separated the holy from the holy, whether explicit or symbolic, whether spiritual or ritual, fell under the umbrella of God's law.
The first and most primitive concept of "holy" or "sacred" is something that cannot receive the same treatment we give to other things.
A "profanation" refers to giving the thing a treatment we would give to other common things.

So, the prohibited fruit was something "sacred", that could not be "profaned", because in contrast with other fruits that could be eaten, this one should not be eaten. God's prohibition, in this circumstance, was the law of God.

 

[Hobie]

Adam and Eve didn’t know the Mosaic law.

I think the Creator made it for man, not Moses or the Jews, as they werent around at the moment...
Mark 2:27
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: