By Mary Carothers<\/p>\n
God is love, the Bible tells us so. I have experienced it in my own personal life, and Jesus proves it!\u00a0 <\/span>Yet, have you ever felt that God was maybe a little bit hard on Adam and Eve when he drove them out of the Garden of Eden?\u00a0 <\/span>After all, we might reason, eating a piece of fruit wasn\u2019t that<\/i> <\/b>bad a sin!<\/p>\n When the angels rebelled against God, they became eternally separated from Him.\u00a0 <\/span>Calvary and God\u2019s forgiveness are not for them (see Hebrews 2:16).\u00a0 <\/span>Only to mankind is the opportunity given for repentance and restoration.<\/p>\n Remember in Genesis 3 when God would come in the cool of the day to fellowship with Adam and Eve?\u00a0 <\/span>God longed for fellowship with them, and He still longs for fellowship with us today.\u00a0 <\/span>Christ died not only to impart forgiveness for our sins, but that we might ultimately be restored to fellowship with God.\u00a0 <\/span>With our spirits reborn, we now have a measure of fellowship with our Lord (see John 3:3).\u00a0 <\/span>But our bodies are still sinful, as Paul tells us in Romans 7:22,23.<\/p>\n Would you want to live forever with a redeemed spirit, but in a sinful body?\u00a0 <\/span>Not me!\u00a0 <\/span>I want to exchange this sinful, mortal body for my immortal body (see I Cor. 15:53). That can only happen when this mortal body is put off.\u00a0 <\/span>And that can only happen when I die.\u00a0 <\/span>If God in His loving wisdom had not forced Adam and Eve out of the Garden and away from the Tree of Life, we might<\/i> <\/b>have lived forever in our sinful state \u2013 and in broken fellowship with God!<\/p>\n I\u2019m so thankful that God loves us with a perfect love, aren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Mary Carothers God is love, the Bible tells us so. I have experienced it in my own personal life, and Jesus proves it!\u00a0 Yet, have you ever felt that God was maybe a little bit hard on Adam and Eve when he drove them out of the Garden of Eden?\u00a0 After all, we might reason, eating a piece of … <\/p>\n