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The Garden

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Pray together, that you may get to know new aspects of God and that your friendship with God would be strengthened and become deeper.

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Applying the text

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The heavens, the earth, humans, animals and plants did not come into being by chance, they were created by God. Humans have had an important role since the beginning. The animals were created so humans wouldn‘t be alone and the sexes (male and female) were created to make an extremely intimate form of union possible. The trust between the two was so great that they were in no way ashamed of their nakedness and didn‘t need to hide or protect themselves behind clothes.
 
Strikingly, humans were given the option of disobeying God by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But God warned them that the punishment for doing so would be death. The existence of that tree clearly shows us that humans aren‘t completely at the mercy of Gods will. Quite the opposite, humankind had the freedom of choice. They were given the freedom of choice to accept or reject Gods love.


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