For Our Sake

Now, we want to look at specifically why God permits evil, Genesis 3:17.

¹⁷And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Note that it states cursed is the ground for thy sake.  This means for our benefit.  Many times people associate curses with punishment.  However, in Genesis 3:17 the curse was to help us.  It was to teach us an eternal lesson.  God is telling His children that He is not going to let us just get away with everything.  We are going to know that His laws and rules are to be a blessing and not evil against us, Romans 7:10-12.

¹⁰And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. ¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. ¹²Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

A cursed ground will teach us what the Garden of Eden could never teach us.  For some, this is hard to accept.  Yet,  it is the message that is through out scriptures.

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