Romans 9-10 - Herbert W Armstrong - June 20, 1980

Herbert W Armstrong

Now, we go back to Adam, and there were two trees in the Garden of Eden, and they were symbolic trees of course, symbolic, the one the symbol of the Holy Spirit. To take that would be to take God's Holy Spirit and receive God's Holy Spirit. The other one was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Now, I guess some think that all Adam had to do was just reach out and take the Tree of Life and he would have received the Holy Spirit and eternal life without any repentance, he had never done anything wrong yet, he had never sinned, and because Satan hadn't gotten to him yet. But that is not quite true. Actually, he had to decide between the two trees. And while God kept Satan away from him until after God had spoken to Adam and Eve, as He did, and I don't know, I'm sure that He spoke to them a great deal. And it's not altogether understandable to me as to why he could have done that in the course of one day. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library