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Originally Posted by Zechariah Smyth
Where does it say that Adam and Eve were perfect?
True, God "created man in his own image" (Genesis 1:27), but that's like saying a Polaroid picture/image of you is EXACTLY/PERFECTLY like you...it's simply not true.
It looks like you included Proverbs 2:21 as some tenuous support of your position, but that is not talking about Adam and Eve, as Proverbs 2:22 makes plain.
Yours in Christ,
Z. Smyth
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Deuteronomy 32:1-10 (King James Version)
Deuteronomy 32
1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4He is the Rock,
his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Because all his work is perfect, this tells us that man (Adam) was not corrupted when created,but was perfect, but corrupted himself, by his being disloyal to God.
Genesis 1:26 (King James Version)
26And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
This scripture is saying that God was talking to Jesus and said "let us make man in our image". This means that we are like God in that we were perfect( would not die) and have the same qualities of God.
Romans 5 (King James Version)
Romans 5
14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
The reason no man born of corruption ( from Adam) was used as a ransom, was that Adam was perfect, but all of Adams offspring were not perfect. Even though there were men that did follow God in a righteous way.
The one to come is Jesus, and he was to ransom mankind with the "similitude of Adam's transgression" Jesus was perfect just like Adam, so this would be the same type of situation that Adam had. A perfect man that lost perfection, able to ransome the rest of mankind by a perfect man who stayed loyal. Thus this gave mankind the opportunity to gain what was lost .