Were Adam and Eve Forgiven?

 

Thoughts on Genesis 3

You can’t turn the fruit around and eat just the good side. Knowledge, without God’s wisdom or guidance is deadly… every bite.

“the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise” = “the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16.

Vs 14“…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”, vs 19 God told Adam, “for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return”; Revelation 12:9 “And the great dragon was cast out, that OLD SERPENT, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world” and Revelation 12:4 “the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” Satan devours people…dust. 1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”

God didn’t curse Adam & Eve in the Garden, but He did chastise them. He only cursed the the serpent and the ground… the ground for Adam’s sake… for his benefit, to help him remember and learn from his mistake. Hebrew 12:6 “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” They bore their chastisement and continued to serve God by teaching their children to sacrifice to God for sin. They did not get kicked out of God’s family when they sinned… neither do we. But we can lose fellowship with Him until it is corrected.

When God provided them coats of skin in vs 21, it was the first demonstration of animal sacrifice for sin to appease God (not complete remission), performed by God Himself; that’s how Cain & Abel learned to sacrifice. Their parents were faithful to teach their sons how to serve God through sacrifice.

It was God’s mercy to prevent access to the Tree of Life in man’s fallen state, otherwise man would be eternally damned.

If God is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8), and He is not willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9), but provides a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13), I have to believe that Adam an Eve were forgiven, but as their children, we still are under chastisement as a reminder, and so is creation (over which they had dominion). See Romans 8:22.