Douglas Summers
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Man thinks of himself as not all that bad. But God knows man, and so does the born again believer. Romans 3:10- 18 describes the Adamic nature or natural man. He is hopelessly uncapable of fellowship in his natural state. And this goes for every human being! (Rom. 3:19-20; 5:12-21). In the Scriptural teaching in most Churches of Cain and Abel, It is taught that the reason God rejected Cain's sacrifice was because it was the wrong sacrifice compared to Able's. But the sacrifice was not the cause of the rejection of Cain or the acceptance of Able. It was what was in the heart of each brother that God looked at, and Scripture tells us that Cain had an evil heart, whereas Able had a righteous heart. Cain sacrificed his own works as to please God (He was a tiller of the ground) , But Cain knew he was a sinner before God and plead a sacrifice of blood of the lamb for mercy from the Lord. (Gen. 4:1-7; 1 John 3:11-15). You must be born again! BTW, Christ was not born again but the same Christ was risen from the grave with the same body...even having the pierced hands, but a glorified body.
- God has given man commands to lead a Godly life and to test man: In the Garden, before He disobeyed God...He was innocent...Not perfect, had he been perfect, he would not have sinned. And He had not fallen, for the only thing I could find who fell in the OT was Satan (Isa. 14:12). So Adam sinned by his disobedience. His State in the beginning then was that he was innocent (Gen. 1:26-29).
- His responsibility was to dress the garden and not eat of the one tree (Gen. 2:16-17)
- His Failure was (Gen. 3:6
- The Judgment (our Judgment) was (Gen. 3:24)
- And the consequences (Gen. 3:14-19; Rom. 5:12, 18)
- The next test was Conscience; From sin to the flood
- His state at the beginning (Gen. 3:22)
- His responsibility (Gen. 4:7a)
- His failure (Gen. 6:5,11-12)
- Judgment (Gen. 7:11, 12, 23)
- This is how I teach the Scriptures......Is this what you call Dispensationalism?