by Wes Bridel on May 3, 2010
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Leaving off from our last post about the image and likeness of God, how do we attain to the likeness of God who is so vast and unknowable? God’s likeness looks like Jesus. Jesus told His disciples that if they had seen Him, they had seen the Father.
Hebrews 1:3 says, “The Son is the radiance [...]
by Wes Bridel on June 16, 2009
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In the beginning, God put two trees in the middle of the garden Eden: the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
Tree of Life
Genesis does not provide us much description about the tree of life. We know that it stands beside the tree of death, which means it is [...]
by Wes Bridel on June 15, 2009
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In the beginning, God put two trees in the middle of the garden of Eden: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
Tree of Death
God commanded Adam and Eve to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, lest they surely die. This makes this [...]
by Wes Bridel on June 11, 2009
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God gave Man everything, but we chose to live this life without His guidance. This has led us to misery, pain, and death. God desires that we be His children, growing into His Likeness, in perfect fellowship and community, governing His creations on earth. After choosing his own way, natural Man is now subject to [...]
by Wes Bridel on June 4, 2009
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We’ve been discussing Man’s fall from grace; and more specifically, the temptations the enemy invoked in tempting Man away from it.
The devil challenged Eve with two things:
whether God desires glory and perfection for Man (which would be to His glory) or not;
whether God knows how to accomplish this goal or not. Eve fell into this [...]
by Wes Bridel on May 29, 2009
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Adam and Eve failed the test (temptation) as recorded in the Genesis 3, thus sin and death entered the world and snatched from Man the seed of his sonship of God. But Jesus triumphed over the devil, and more. He proceeded to willingly take on the will of His Father to become the sacrifice for [...]