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Breaking the Curse of Poverty  David K. Owusu

of Eden.

Man was enticed with the lies from the father of all lies, before long
he fell into the trap without even knowing how it happened.

The devil sneaked away unrecognized, just as his nature is; “to kill,
steal and destroy”. His destructive plan played out just fine and he
awaits the outcome of the evil action. Man remained ashamed and
having no recourse than to hide from God; he had utterly fallen
for the deceptions of the devil. He decided to get himself a form
of cover in what bible scholars would refer to as “self- righteous
efforts” to try and make himself acceptable before God. This could
not be sustained in the sight of the Almighty God. The God that
is all-knowing; already knew man would fall; He knew man had
no way to redeem himself and that necessitated a savior. Well, the
scene shifted and God entered judgment on man out of the act of
disobedience:-

“To Adam, he said, Because you listened to your wife and ate
the fruit from the tree which I commanded you “You must not eat
from it”…cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil
you will eat food from it all the days of your life, it will produce
thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field,
by the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return
to the ground…so the Lord banished him from the Garden of

Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken” Genesis
3:17-19 [AMPC]

Man’s conduct caused a separation from God as his “eyes” were

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