Questions:
3.
The devil, satan
4.
a.
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.
b.
Yes, 9.In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and… 16.You are free to eat from any tree in the garden (i.e., if it was in the garden and they could eat from any tree in the garden except one then they could eat of that tree.)
5.
a.
1. Caused her to question God’s word (did God really say?) 2. Caused to q God’s justice (not die) 3. Cause to q God’s nature
b.
listened then saw/looked then took then ate then shared: 1. listened to question, 2. responded to question and amplified God’s word (added to it) 3. doubted and underplayed consequences of sin 4. listened to denial of God’s nature and didn’t argue
c.
God’s nature/attributes – He is truthful, He is just, He is loving, He is a protector
6.
a.
In both Satan used and twisted the word of God to provoke an action that is against God’s design. Jesus, however, was able to keep His focus only on the word and not on the temptation, Eve saw the temptation. Jesus told Satan, “away”
b.
No – God does not act to lure us off the path, but He does allow us the free will to step off if we choose: tempted vs seized by t
c.
Tempted to conform rather than live as an alien. Do I pray in public even before meals? How many times a day do I use Jesus’ name in a sentence with others? As a Christian I should speak a different language and have different customs. I’m seeking strength in God’s Word and power from the H/S.
My Daily Journal:
In the senior level of the children’s program in BSF the closing exercise each week focuses on an attribute of God. It wasn’t until doing the lesson today that I recognized just how vitally crucial that is to our walk with God and our ability to avoid being tempted. Understanding that there are some things that are absolutely always true about the very nature of God gives us a perfect measure to test anything that may ever tempt us. Adam and Eve both forgot (chose to not remember) that God is always true, that He is always just and that He is always faithful. In so doing, they turned their eyes away from God (or, at a minimum who God really is) and it is only at this point that they fall to temptation. When the hymnist reminds us to “turn our eyes upon Jesus” he isn’t telling us to treat the image of our Lord as some good luck talisman, but instead to view the road we choose to walk only through the lens of the true attributes of God. Obviously, doing that starts with knowing the attributes of God.
The lesson this week breached the discussion about whether or not Jesus was tempted or tested, semantics for the underlying question of whether or not Jesus could sin. This can become very confusing, particularly to a new christian. Here is my perspective for better or worse. It is not God’s nature to sin, that would be in direct contradiction to His attributes of being Holy and Perfect. So, Jesus, as fully God, could not have sinned. And, we see and hear throughout the new testament account that He lived a life perfect and without sin. He was also fully man, born of a woman, and in this capacity had the ability to sin (Reminder: this is my understanding of scripture based on my very limited knowledge and study). The majesty of Jesus as a man and as our unblemished lamb comes from the fact that he chose not to sin. Adam and Eve chose to sin, Jesus chose not to sin. I think this is important because it comes back to the presence of the tree and the serpent in the garden to begin with. If God had not endowed man with free will and with the ability to choose to obey Him and live in perfect communion with Him, or not, then there would have been no tree, no serpent, no choice. Jesus as a man was not in any way less than any other man. It wasn’t that he was incapable of doing something that all other men are capable of doing. Just the opposite, He was capable, but chose to stay focused on the Father’s will instead of the path we take to “look around”. How often could we prevent temptations from creeping into our lives if we kept our eyes more focused on the word of God and the attributes about Him that it conveys?
The Notes are Good 