Adam turned his legal dominion over to Satan, God's enemy. .................................. ................................................................................This sin is unpardonable!...................... ................................................................................Adam's sin was done in the light of absolute knowledge. He wasn't deceived by Satan. Eve was deceived, but Adam became the Benedict Arnold of eternity.

Adam's sin was High Treason!

God had given him the authority to rule the universe.This dominion was the most sacred heritage that God could give to man.

"Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thine hands; thou hast put all things under his feet. Psalms 8:6

What was man's original sin? .........................................................................................................................

It wasn't a broken law because the Law hadn't been given yet. ...........................................................................................................

Man was given such far-reaching authority, his intellect was such that he was a companion with God and he held the joys and sorrows of God. ..............................................................................................

This gives us an idea of the nature of his sin.

During the time of Spiritual Death that followed man's sin, when Satan ruled in man's heart, the knowledge of God and His love became lost.

Not until Christ came was the Father's nature made known to man again.

As we know the place and reason for the first creation, we will know what we mean to the Father God's heart......................................................................................................................................... A low concept of the creation of Adam has given us a low concept of the new creation in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45-49 tells us of two
creations: the creation of Adam and the
new creation in Christ.

In Adam, we see man scarred by spiritual
death, losing his fellowship with the
Father God and his authority over creation.

In Christ, we see spiritual death destroyed
and man made a new creature, free from
spiritual death as though Adam had never
sinned.

In the story of Creation, we didn't see that
man was the reason for the existence of the
universe. To us, he played a small part.

Our spirits being alienated from God, didn't
understand the Father God's longing for
children or His joy in creating a man in His
own image with dominion over creation.

Instead, we just saw a God who we had no
love for or closeness. We saw man as a
poor failure. We saw them as Satan wanted
us to see them.

Until man was born again, he lived in
spiritual death. He knew nothing out of
that realm.

At that time he became familiar with the
creation of himself in Genesis 1 and 2,
but knew it only through his world mind,
which is enmity toward God.

Man's real business was to give birth to
God's children.

This responsiblitiy can only be determined
by eternity. Man is to give birth to eternal
beings who will live as long as God lives.

He has made man the guardian of His joy.

God could have spoken the entire human
family into being at once, but He didn't
choose to do it that way.

He made Adam and Eve fellow-workers
with Himself in bringing the human family
into the world.

He gave man the ability to reproduce him-
self. These children were to be the joy and
glory of God.

It's not possible to over-estimate Adam's
responsiblitity.

He was responsible for filling the Father
God's heart with the joy for the human
family yet unborn.

Adam ruled creation by his word. His voice
was like his creator's as he had dominion
over creation.

He possessed such complete authority over
creation that he had in his hands the legal
right to give that dominion to another being.

"Who being the brightness of his glory, and
the express image of his person, and uphold-
ing all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty
on high:" Hebrews 1:3

Jesus now upholds all things by the Word
of His power.

"But we see Jesus, who was made a little
lower than the Elohim, for the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honour;
that he by the grace of God should taste
death for every man." Hebrews 2:9

Verse 9 shows that the dominion lost by
Adam has been given to Christ, by His
sacrifice for man.

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"But now we see not yet all things subjected
to him." Hebrews 2:8

The (last clause) reveals that man no long-
er holds that dominion (American Standard
Version).

"For unto the angels hath he not put in sub-
jection the world to come, whereof we speak.
But one in a certain place testified, saying,
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
or the son of man that thou visitest him?
Thou madest him a little lower than the
Elohim; thou crownedst him with glory
and honour, and didst set him over the
works of thy hands:
Thou hast put all things in subjection
under his feet. For in that he put all in
subjection under him, he left nothing
that is not put under him. But now we
see not yet all things put under him."
Hebrews 2:5-8

This is a revelation of Adam's dominion.

Man was to be God's companion and was
to rule under Him.

His dominion reached to the outer stars
and planets.

His dominion was a far-reaching as Christ's
rule will be when He takes over the domin-
ion of the universe.

The Hebrew word is "Elohim." It is the
same word that is used in Genesis 1:1.

"In the beginning 'God' or 'Elohim'. The
thought of the Hebrew is "just a little
lower than God."

Man was created as nearly like the Father
God as was possible.

Psalm 8:5, "made him but little lower than
God."

The King James Version reads "angels,"
the the correct translation is "God."

He made man just a little lower than Him
self.

"When I consider thy heavens, the work of
thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which
thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than
the angels, and hast crowned him with
glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over
the works of thy hands; thou hast put all
things under his feet:
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts
of the field;
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever passeth through the paths
of the seas.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy
name in all the earth!"
Psalm 8:3-9

This is a revelation of the creation of the
man as the Father God desired him to be
and to live.

Man was the object of the Father God's
love and affection.

It was His joy to give man dominion over
the works He had created.

Man had the ability to rule the universe.

Adam's body was perfect, and fit to be the
temple of God's ruler of the earth.

"And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the
earth. Genesis 1:28

Reading this with a mind ruled by the
senses, we overlook the tremendous
place that man held in God's heart.

When man was created, he was planned a
perfect human being with and endless
human life.

His body was not mortal nor immortal,
[the word 'mortal' means death-doomed
or Satan-ruled].

Man was an eternal spirit being in God's
class, with an eternal human body.

We know that Adam had an intellect that
could rule creation because he had the
ability to name 500,000 bugs, birds, worms,
animals, fish and reptiles.

When man

was created,

he had a

mind, of
such

intelligence

that he was

able to name
the entire

animal

creation.

"And out of

the ground the LORD God formed

every beast of the field, and every
fowl of the air; and brought them unto
Adam to see what he would call them:
and whatsoever Adam called every living
creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and
to the fowl of the air, and to every beast
of the field;"
Genesis 2:19-20

There can be no fellowship without love!
Man's obedience to Him is because of
love.

"At that day ye shall know that I am in my
Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
He that hath my commandments, and
keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and
he that loveth me shall be loved of my
Father, and I will love him, and will
manifest myself to him.
Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord,
how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself
unto us, and not unto the world?
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a
man love me, he will keep my words: and
my Father will love him, and we will come
unto him, and make our abode with him.
He that loveth me not keepeth not my
sayings: and the word which ye hear is
not mine, but the Father's which sent me."
John 14:20-24

Psalms 102:25

Without a will, God's creation would have
been a machine, not a man, a puppet or
robot, not a person.

Father God desired fellowship and it must
come from man. It couldn't be a response
to instinct, but a result of man's love and
choice.

One of the features that Father God gave His
man was man's will. The will has the power
of choice. He has the ability to choose and
to determine his actions.







God took a great chance in creating a being
with a will. But no other type of being could
have solved His reason for creating him.

The spirit

operates

through the

soul and
they operate

through the

physical body.

The man

[his spirit]

and his soul

leaves the
body when

he dies.

After the man

has left
his body, the body has no reason for exist-
ing. So at once it begins to disintegrate,
but the spirit and soul lives on.