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“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
When God was finished, “God saw all that He had made and behold they were exceedingly good.” (Genesis 1:31)
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God created everything “exceedingly good.”
For you and me to enjoy on our time here on earth.
God loves us so much, and He cares like no one else can.
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Unfortunately, since then, sin has destroyed a lot of the wonderful world that God created for us to enjoy, but looking at nature we can still see remnants of its original beauty.
Yes every flower and every bird tells us - that there is a God that really loves us.
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I am so thankful to be His friend and here I try to present a little of what I know of Him and the great love that I have met;
yes the Friend that makes life worth living and an eternity with Him my only goal.
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As said, this cannot be presented with only a few sentences, and where we will be in thousands of years from now, is the most important question in our lives – so it should not be treated as a small thing.
So in the same way as if you study to take a driving license – time has to be spent on it.
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As I started with, in the beginning everything was very good.
But then our great, great, great grandparents messed things up, big time.
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God has given us a free will, and every person wants a relation of love, based on the free will and the choice of the other person.
God did not force our great, great, great grandparents to choose Him – and neither will He force you.
He gave them only one thing that He asked them to respect and it was:
“of all the trees of the garden you shall eat. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for even the same day you eat of it, you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)
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As we go along, I strongly suggest that you stop and find the verses in the Bible and see for yourself.
Don’t take my word for it – see in the Bible if what I write is from the Bible.
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With all the beauty around them that a loving God had given them to enjoy, and being allowed to eat freely from every tree, except one, it would be an easy choice to respect that simple rule.
And Adam and Eve did not just have a little to choose from.
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Whilst Genesis 1 gives a quick overview of Creation, Genesis 2 gives us more details.
Here we see that there was every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food:
“The Lord God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning and there He sat man whom He had formed. And the Lord God made to spring out of the earth, all manner of trees beautiful to the sight and pleasant to eat and the tree of life in the midst of the garden” (Genesis 2:8-9)
We know that the earth has an enormous amount of different beautiful trees, and here were “all manner of trees beautiful to the sight and pleasant to eat”
so in the garden there must have been an enormous amount of trees for our great, great, great grandparents to enjoy.
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And not only trees, but every beautiful bird, horse and every other beautiful animal that you can think of, were there as well:
“And after that the Lord God had made of the earth all manner of beasts of the field and all manner of birds of the air, He brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them.
And as Adam called all manner of living beasts, even so are their names.
And Adam gave names unto all manner of cattle and unto the birds of the air and unto all manner of beasts of the field.” (Genesis 2:19-20)
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What a paradise world.
Better than the richest person could ever dream of creating if buying a paradise island for himself.
And they got this dream come true for free and could enjoy it all freely,
and there was only one thing to respect – just one tree to avoid.
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I think God placed it there, so they would have a choice.
If there had been nothing that they should respect, they wouldn’t really have had a choice, would they?
Now they had a choice.