RoboPreacher

as if to say you're all i need A sermon on Eden : We can’t really talk about what this passage is . Can we? Unfortunately for us , this piece of Scripture is, before it’s anything else, a story of what’s been lost . Eden isn’t the story of what is. It’s the story of what isn’t .   Why so far removed are we from this account that if we try and imagine it, we're called up short almost immediately? I mean, what , after all, is lost in Eden? Was it Paradise ? Was it immortality ? Truthfully, though , if I try to picture any of that, I lose interest after about 30 seconds! Sure, it sounds fun to romp through that picture- perfect Eden. But only for a while! What would I do after that?   And immortality is no better, either! In fact, it’s worse ! Add immortality to our estimations of Eden, and you wind up doomed to Paradise! Stuck in the Garden forever, twiddling your thumbs with nothing to do! No, thank you!   Sure, life east of Eden may be imperfect , but at least ...

i stood a little while with it A reading from Genesis 2 : Seeing as we're dealing with fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, let’s not beat around the bush …   We all KNOW Adam and Eve did eat from that forbidden tree; the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What we don’t know, though—and we hate not knowing things—is why Adam and Eve were forbidden from eating the fruit from that particular tree. After all, it’s fruit from the tree of knowledge !   …Knowledge of good and evil, yes. But still knowledge! And what could ever be wrong with knowledge ?!? Knowledge is one of our most prized virtues. Isn’t it? We even have an adage, a proverb , about it. Those who don’t know their history are, what? Yes, doomed to repeat it. And that sounds good…   But if that proverb were on a true or false test, if we wanted to get the question right, we know we’d have to mark a “ false ” next to that saying. False! That a...