Wry Catcher
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Who brought sin and death to the earth? Man, Satan or God?
Adam and Eve have been blamed for bringing both sin and death to the earth. I have a hard time agreeing with that view.
On sin.
Some believe that Eve was first to sin when she ate of the tree of knowledge.
Some say Adam because Eve was deceived.
I see that as the second command ignored as God told A & E to reproduce in Gen 1 and that command was completely ignored.
I believe that Satan or the talking snake may have sinned first because to tempt someone to sin makes the tempter culpable and not the one deceived. Satan first or God thanks to what I say below
I also believe that that God also sinned before A & E did, through omission, as many of the consequences and benefits of eating of the tree of knowledge were withheld from A & E by God. That is easily demonstrable. Count them and see that of the many, God only spoke of one and omitted the rest.
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On death.
Adam is said to have brought death to the earth through his sin but as shown above he was likely not the first sinner.
The first death that the bible speaks of is when God kills animals to make clothes for A & E.
The next death is done by God of A & E by locking away the tree of life.
It appears that God himself brought death to the earth.
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Who do you think the first sinner was and who do you see as the first killer?
Regards
DL
Man! God and Satan our constructs of man. Does anyone have evidence otherwise?