The garden of Eden

(4) The kingdom of God on earth The Kingdom of God on this earth expressed in various. Humans have always sinned against God in this land. At that time God judged man. And God commanded man again to make the kingdom of God on earth. The model of the kingdom of God from the past to the present are as follows. The garden of Eden The garden of Eden symbolizes the kingdom of God. However, there was fruit of the tree of life and fruit of the tree to know good and evil, and a serpent symbolizing Satan also appeared. This garden of Eden implies the events that occurred in the kingdom of God. It also indicates that the kingdom of God on this earth is imperfect. It means any victory to fight against Satan. Adam was born in the world, and God put Adam into the Garden of Eden. Eve was a woman separated from Adam. What character is Adam that is created for the first time in the world?『And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.』(Genesis2:7) The soul is Pshuke in Greek. It is usually translated to breath, vitality, mind, mind, and so on. But the soul is not the spirit. Adam who is made by clay and is not a spiritual being, but a soul. God did not put the spirit into clay, but he gave the energy of life. So the shape of the clay became living being. God puts the spirit into living being in Eden. 『And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.』(Genesis 2:8) In the Garden of Eden, man became a spiritual being as the image of God because he ate the fruit of the tree of life. The spiritual being is united with God in Holy Spirit. Although Adam became a spiritual being, God makes a covenant with him.『But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.』(Genesis 2:17) God gave him ability to discern good and evil. Good is an attribute to appears on eat the fruits of the tree of life. Evil is the devil. Adam can see existence of evil when he eat the fruit of the tree of life. So the devil try to remove the fruits of the good and evil. But Adam and Eve sinned against God. God wants to save their spirit. God killed the animal himself, made leather clothes, and clothed Adam and Eve. But they have driven them from the garden of Eden to the world because of their sin. The garden of Eden symbolizes the kingdom of God.

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