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The Man In Love
Indeed, despite the fact that they messed up, God still made ‘tunics of skin’ for both Adam and Eve to cover their nakedness (Genesis 2:21). That was still a great gesture of love because they were not able to make appropriate covering for themselves.
God’s Demand For Reciprocity
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:17
When God created Adam in His image and likeness, and showed him so much love as described in the foregoing, He expected just one thing from him, reciprocity. Our God is a reciprocal God.
God expected Adam to keep off the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in his quest for food, as he had been commanded (Genesis 2:17). God expected Adam to tend and keep the Garden of Eden, as he had been commanded (Genesis 2:16). God also expected that Adam along with Eve would be fruitful and multiply
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