Cheryl Schatz

I have one more comment for people to think through and you may want to comment on this.

A sinless man was able to sin in the garden but he was also able to stay in the place of sinless as this was his nature. When man fell his nature changed so that he was unable to get back to where he had fallen from. He was now unable to live without sin and his new nature made it natural for him to sin just as it had been natural for him not to sin before he fell.

If man was now living in the “natural fleshly nature”, he could no longer be trusted to obey God’s law. It would appear then that God’s words…

Genesis 3:22…he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever…”

When God used the prefixed imperfect tense it shows that the action was in progress but not yet completed.

Grammar (of a tense) denoting a past action in progress but not completed at the time in question.

If Adam’s rebellion to God regarding the tree of life was in progress but not yet completed, then this reveals his sin nature in progress heading toward a direction that God wanted stopped before it happened?

If Adam’s rebellion that is “in progress” at the time that God kicked him out of the garden, is not this the perfect definition of the “old man nature” or the “natural man” that we now call the “sin nature”?

What do you think?