Conflict & Courage

God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Ecclesiastes 7:29. The book of Genesis gives quite a definite account of social and individual life, and yet we have no record of an infant's being born blind, deaf, crippled, deformed, or imbecile. There is not an instance upon record of a natural death in infancy, childhood, or early manhood. There is no account of men and wome...

Between God and Man      Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25.  {CC 20.1}        The Lord did not place in Adam fallen and disobedient, the confidence He placed in Adam loyal and true. . . . The rewards of heaven are not granted to transgressors. . . .  {CC 20.2}        The eyes of Adam...

Genesis 3:14-17 But  ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the  air, and they shall tell thee: or speak to the earth, and it shall teach  thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth  not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? Job 12:7-9. Although  the earth was blighted with the curse, nature was still to be man's  lesson book....

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; . . . and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, . . . cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Genesis 3:16, 17.  {CC 18.1}        Eve was told of the sorrow and pain that must henceforth be her portion. . . . In the cre...

     And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. Ecclesiastes 1:17.  {CC 17.1}        Adam and Eve both ate of the fruit, and obtained a knowledge which, had they obeyed God, they would never have had, --an experience in disobedience and disloyalty to God,--the knowledge that they were naked. The garment of innocence, a covering from God, which surrounded them, departed; and...

She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Genesis 3:6.  {CC 16.1}       Having herself transgressed, she [Eve] became the agent of Satan working the ruin of her husband. In a state of strange, unnatural excitement, with her hands filled with the forbidden fruit, she sought his presence, and related all that had occurred.  {CC 16.2}       A...

And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:1.  {CC 15.1}        To man, the crowning work of creation, God has given power to understand His requirements, to comprehend the justice and beneficence of His law, and its sacred claims upon him; and of man unswerving obedience is required.  {CC 15.2}        Like the angels, the dwellers in Ed...

 It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. Genesis 2:18.  {CC 14.1}        After the creation of Adam every living creature was brought before him to receive its name; he saw that to each had been given a companion, but among them "there was not found an help meet for him." Among all the creatures that God had made on the earth, there was not one equal to m...

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.  {CC 13.1}        Our first parents, though created innocent and holy, were not placed beyond the possibility of wrongdoing. . . . They were to enjoy communion with God and with holy angels; but before they could be rendered eternally secure, the...

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2:15.  {CC 12.1}        Although everything God had made was in the perfection of beauty, and there seemed nothing wanting upon the earth which God had created to make Adam and Eve happy, yet He manifested His great love to them by planting a garden especially for them. A portion of their time wa...

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27.  {CC 11.1}        After the earth with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been called into existence, man, the crowning work of the Creator, and the one for whom the beautiful earth had been fitted up, was brought upon the stage of action. To him was given dominion over al...

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27.  {CC 11.1}        After the earth with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been called into existence, man, the crowning work of the Creator, and the one for whom the beautiful earth had been fitted up, was brought upon the stage of action. To him was given dominion over al...

They that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. Job 4:8.  {CC 10.1}        As an educator no part of the Bible is of greater value than are its biographies. These biographies differ from all others in that they are absolutely true to life. It is impossible for any finite mind to interpret rightly, in all things, the workings of another. None but He who reads the heart, who discerns the...

     The lips of the righteous feed many. Proverbs 10:21.  {CC 9.1}        Notwithstanding the prevailing iniquity, there was a line of holy men who, elevated and ennobled by communion with God, lived as in the companionship of heaven. They were men of massive intellect, of wonderful attainments. They had a great and holy mission--to develop a character of righteousness, to teach a lesson of godli...

     Now these things which happened to our ancestors are illustrations of the way in which God works, and they were written down to be a warning to us who are the heirs of the ages which have gone before us. 1 Corinthians 10:11, Phillips.  {CC 8.1}        The murmurings of ancient Israel and their rebellious discontent, as well as the mighty miracles wrought in their favor and the punishment of t...

For all those words which were written long ago are meant to teach us today; that when we read in the scriptures of the endurance of men and of all the help that God gave them in those days, we may be encouraged to go on hoping in our own time. Romans 15:4, Phillips. CC 7.1 The lives recorded in the Bible are authentic histories of actual individuals. From Adam down through successive generations...