<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]God has never left man with out the means to come back to Him. He found Adam and called him back. Adam responded and took from God the clothing he needed. </font><hr></blockquote><p> Really? Adam responded by HIDING and not repenting until he was clothed upon—note the text DOEST NOT say Adam took the clothing and clothed himself, but rather that God clothed Adam and Eve:<br><br><blockquote>Gen 3: 21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and [color:red]clothed</font color=red> them.</blockquote> The term here used for [color:red]clothed</font color=red> (labesh) is indeed a great word study within itself. It means to ‘be” clothed upon, be arrayed, or to be armed. It is in the imperfect tense and thus it has symbolic meaning for us. The imperfect expresses an action, process or condition which is incomplete, and it has a wide range of meaning: (1) It is used to describe a single (as opposed to a repeated) action in the past; (2) it differs from the perfect in being more vivid and pictorial (3) The perfect expresses the “fact”, the imperfect adds colour and movement by suggesting the “process” preliminary to its completion. Thus, here in Genesis, if compared to the rest of Scripture, we may see a salvation born and a sanctification which continues. <br><br>PLEASE NOTE: (1) it is an action upon Adam directly by God (2) it is an action that happens ONLY once, as opposed to being repeated—a person is not lost one second and then saved the next, and then lost again and then saved again as Arminians assume.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"] So the question I am asking here is if God was not able or willing to so act on Adam to keep him from rebelling, how is He going to keep the elect from continuing in that rebellion? </font><hr></blockquote><p> It is very unusual that you would think that God is UNABLE to act to keep Adam from rebelling—this reveals that you do not really believe in the sovereignty of God. <br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"] Obviously your salvation has in no way hindered your ability to sin and for most people only slightly suppresses it.</font><hr></blockquote><p> Though a Christian may sin, it does not condemn him because he has an advocate with the father (read 1 John 1:9).<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]In what manner or at what point is God going to insure that you will never sin again? </font><hr></blockquote><p> It is called glorification.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]If he didn't do it for Adam, how is He going to do it for you unless it is to take away your freedom to choose to rebel in which case you become His prisoner, a wife with no choice at the alter but to go through with it?</font><hr></blockquote><p> I would rather be a prisoner of Christ then a slave to Satan. What you have failed to realize is that the second man Adam—Jesus, accomplished that which the first man Adam failed. Our righteousness is in that of Christ alone and not in that of the 1st man Adam. I have attached a teaching chart and brief outline that may assist you in clarifying some of these issues. Enjoy!
