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Originally Posted by KSA
The same happened to man. God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes (Eccl. 7:29). The verse from James that you cited confirms my point. James 1:13-15: When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. Satan can entice us. He can tempt us with something that appeals to our desires, but there is not foreign nature that makes us sin. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable... (Gen. 3:6). What cause the fall of Eve was her own desire! It was stirred up by Satan, but it was her own desire.
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I totally disagree with you on this one.
The "man" being discussed in James 1:13-15 is a corrupted man, the "man" after the fall of the first Adam. This man being discussed by James is a "fallen man" or "soulish man" where "sin" reigns in him, the "body of sin" is totally in connivance with the "old man", and the "old man" which is our "self" is always in agreement with "sin" to make sins. Please pray-read Romans 6:6.
Eve's mistake would not result in "death reigning in man" should she had not eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God's command to man was not to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. And we know all, that the consequence of disobeying God's command "you will surely die". The New Testament tells us that the penalty or wages of sin is death. Prior to Eve's eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, death was
not yet present in man's body. It was the very act of Eve when she ate the fruit from the Tree of Knoweldge of Good and Evil that death totally manifested in man's being; and thereby, transmuting the body into flesh, the soul into self, and the spirit was deadened.
The Bible is so illustrative using the "fruit" and the act of man eating the fruit to show us that something was received by man that caused his fall and corrupted man's body, soul, and spirit.