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Originally Posted by KSA
Before Eve ate from the fruit, she 1) had doubted God's word, 2) believed Satan, 3) decided to break God's commandment, 4) and acted upon here decision. It was sin! Look how Paul described the fall: as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds be corrupted... (2 Cor. 11:3). So the fall here is described as the corruption of mind through deceit. In her act we see lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life (1 John. 2:16).
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Again, you are discussing a "fallen man" or "soulish man" in this respect. We are talking about the first Adam or Eve who had not been fallen yet at the time when the serpent approached the woman. Just ask yourself, when did the first Adam die? As a hint, he died when "sin" entered into him as "death".
If the fall of man has to do with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, then, the rise of man has to do with the Tree of Life. What would you do with the Tree of Life for man to rise? I believe you will agree with me that we must eat the fruit from the Tree of Life because it signifies the very uncreated life of God. If man has not been disobedient and did not eat the fruit from Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, would you consider man as "
righteous" at that particular moment while the fruit, either from Tree of Life or Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, are still outside of man or has not been eaten yet?