Eve did not recognize or understand that the serpent who confronted her was a fallen being. She thought that the serpent must be telling the truth and correcting her misunderstanding. So she was deceived, not knowing what deception was. This shows that their state in the beginning was sinless and innocent of evil. This innocence made them vulnerable and easily swayed by the tempter. It seems that they had not been in the Garden very long before this happened, so they may not have had much time to observe the natural behaviors of the animals, so the serpent talking may not have seemed out of place to them. But who really knows, as not much is really said of this time in the Garden.
God won over Satan in the fall of Adam because in entering the Garden and being determined to ruin God's new creation with his wickedness, Satan played right into God's eternal plan that was to redeem for Himself a sinful and corrupted people who are made righteous and forgiven through and for His divine eternal Son, Jesus. God's plan proceeded just as God had ordained it to progress when Satan was ALLOWED by God to enter the Garden and tempt Adam and Eve to sin. His will cannot be thwarted, even when His will is accomplished through the emergence of sin among the angels and among humanity.
We can be baffled by this and/or wondering why God didn't just choose to bypass sin altogether. But, because God always seeks to maximize His glory to the fullest, this was the best and wisest way to do so with His wrath, judgement, grace, mercy. If there was never any sin, then He could not be glorified in these attributes. So, some may say that this is a cruel way for God to get glory for Himself. But if we truly study God in all of His attributes revealed to us, we cannot judge God on this matter. He is the sole sovereign of all and no one can overrule, counsel, or alter His ordained will. We just have to accept that by allowing sin to emerge after creation, cont. to Pt.3
Pt. 2
Eve did not recognize or understand that the serpent who confronted her was a fallen being. She thought that the serpent must be telling the truth and correcting her misunderstanding. So she was deceived, not knowing what deception was. This shows that their state in the beginning was sinless and innocent of evil. This innocence made them vulnerable and easily swayed by the tempter. It seems that they had not been in the Garden very long before this happened, so they may not have had much time to observe the natural behaviors of the animals, so the serpent talking may not have seemed out of place to them. But who really knows, as not much is really said of this time in the Garden.
God won over Satan in the fall of Adam because in entering the Garden and being determined to ruin God's new creation with his wickedness, Satan played right into God's eternal plan that was to redeem for Himself a sinful and corrupted people who are made righteous and forgiven through and for His divine eternal Son, Jesus. God's plan proceeded just as God had ordained it to progress when Satan was ALLOWED by God to enter the Garden and tempt Adam and Eve to sin. His will cannot be thwarted, even when His will is accomplished through the emergence of sin among the angels and among humanity.
We can be baffled by this and/or wondering why God didn't just choose to bypass sin altogether. But, because God always seeks to maximize His glory to the fullest, this was the best and wisest way to do so with His wrath, judgement, grace, mercy. If there was never any sin, then He could not be glorified in these attributes. So, some may say that this is a cruel way for God to get glory for Himself. But if we truly study God in all of His attributes revealed to us, we cannot judge God on this matter. He is the sole sovereign of all and no one can overrule, counsel, or alter His ordained will. We just have to accept that by allowing sin to emerge after creation, cont. to Pt.3
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