Two-Way Friendship – Part 1

God came into the garden and, after questioning Adam and Eve, spelled out for them what the results would be: There would be no grounds for a relationship with God. Adam and Eve had exercised their free wills and had, by their action, disregarded and disbelieved what God had said. The good life ended.

So, the integrity of God required the full measure of His law. Otherwise, His Word could never be trusted. Adam and Eve were no longer qualified to dwell in the Garden with God. separated from His plenty and beyond His protection, they were now subject to their new “master.” Sin had entered the human race and it would be passed on to all generations. Romans 5:12 AMP “Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, [no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned.”

The fundamental sin that severed God’s relationship with humankind was not murder or adultery or lying or stealing or hatred or abuse.