And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. Ecclesiastes 1:17. Adam and Eve both ate of the fruit, and obtained a knowledge which, had they obeyed God, they would never have had,—an experience in
Used by Satan
She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Genesis 3:6. Having herself transgressed, she [Eve] became the agent of Satan working the ruin of her husband. In
Deceived!
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:1. To man, the crowning work of creation, God has given power to understand His requirements, to comprehend the
A Chance to Choose
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17. Our first parents, though created innocent and holy, were
Eden
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2:15. Although everything God had made was in the perfection of beauty, and there seemed nothing wanting
In God’s Image
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27. After the earth with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been called into existence, man,
A Place in Line
The lips of the righteous feed many. Proverbs 10:21. Notwithstanding the prevailing iniquity, there was a line of holy men who, elevated and ennobled by communion with God, lived as in the companionship of heaven. They were men of massive