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5 Cards in this Set
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Temptation: The Test?
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• Trusting God or Satan?
• Trusting God or one's peer? |
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Temptation: The Serpent's Deception:
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• Misrepresenting the words of God ("any tree")
• Portraying God as selfish, keeping important information away from Adam and Eve ("For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened") • Appealing to the desire for power ("you will not die;" "you shall be like God") |
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Results of Sin
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• Shame
• Fear • Blame • Curse • Adam and the soil (the flood and natural disasters) • Eve and childbearing • Serpent to crawl on its belly • Death (disconnection from source of life) |
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Reason for the Tree
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• To stimulate curiosity?
• To make Adam & Eve stumble? • To provide the opportunity to exercise free will? • Because it was a way for Adam and Eve to build character |
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Reason for Lucifer
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• Lucifer is God's ally?
• He was necessary for testing the human race? • Because good cannot be appreciated without the presence of evil? • To be light bearer and work in the service of God? |
