God never punished Adam

GOD NEVER PUNISHED ADAM

First let me start with the definition of sin. Sin, a willful act, or decision that opposes the two greatest commandments. The commandments to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and your neighbor as yourself, was given by none other than the Master Himself. Jesus clearly stated in (Mat. 22:37-40) that these two commandments covered all the others. And once we meditate on what Jesus is revealing than most of our problems and confusion about God will disappear For once we see God as Jesus saw Him, darkness goes and light appears.
Now before we go further let us discover Jesus primary goal in coming to earth, and I can tell you now, it wasn’t to rid mankind of sin. No, Jesus purpose in coming to earth was for directing mankind back to God the Father (the kingdom) Roman 3:24), for once a man experience the love of God the Father he will no longer fear God, or allow sin to control him, but lead by the Spirit of God. Also (Rom. 3:25) tells us that Jesus was sent to show all that God never punished mankind for their sins. This is why Jesus revealed the love of God towards mankind, and this is why He gave sight to the blind, opened stopped ears, and caused the dumb to speak. In doing these acts of love Jesus was showing how His Father felt about the human race. Never once did Jesus issue punishment or use scare tactics to trap people into serving God. Jesus criticized the priesthood of his day for burdening the people with rules and laws in serving God. Why didn’t Jesus punish the evil people who claimed they were Holy, providing punishment was an option. I believe Jesus would have shown us anger if it were the Father's nature. Why did Jesus not speak of the so-called punishment God is said to have issued to Adam and Eve? And why didn’t Jesus threaten the people with sin and condemnation if it were the right way?
If Jesus said He came to show the love of the Father, was He lying? And if Jesus were sent to reveal God to mankind then why didn’t he tell us God punishes? These questions will start you to thinking with your whole heart, and to break up the hardness of a heart that sees God punish. For until a man sees God in the purity of His love he cannot fellowship with Him without fear, and he cannot stand in the presence of God. Only those that know they are loved of the Father are bold enough to stand before Him. And this my friend is the reason why Christians are so weak. We have learned fellowshipping in the name of God more than fellowshipping with God.
Adam never mentioned God was unjust, why not? Because Adam knew the true nature of His Father was love. Adam understood his fear was a result of his on guilt. Once we really seek to know the truth, we will discover that God could no more punish mankind than a true mother could her own child. God is loving and that is why Jesus talked about the love of the Father for mankind. And when we truly understand the scriptures, we will see that it was a favor for God to send Adam and Eve out of paradise.
Remember paradise was where Adam fellowshipped with God all day. There was no knowledge of good and evil, because being in the presence of God continually one needed no knowledge of good and evil. Imagine, if you can, where there are no hunger and no pain, no time, and no aging, no death, everything is in harmony, and blissfulness was the norm; a true paradise, and so it was for Adam and Eve. The Father being all wise, and knowing all, foretells Adam on the day he gets familiar with anything outside paradise he will die. Now we know that God was not talking about physical death because Adam lived to be 930 years old. But the spiritual death that separated Adam from daily fellowship, after corruption, with his Father was worse than physical death. Adam became confused and feared God. This my friend is how Adam and Eve lost paradise.
Let us take a mother and child; for example. Suppose the mother warned her child about playing with a precious piece of china, and threatened to spank him severely in the event he brakes it. But, one day as the child hurriedly passed the china bowl, he accidentally knocks it over. Now, the first thing the child does is collect the pieces and hide them, so the mother will not be angry with him. Months passed before the mother misses the bowl, and during this time the child is tormented day and night with thoughts the mother will discover her loss. If the mother had sent the child away, for a short vacation, after the accident it would have been easier on the child, but being the child lived with his mother and had to face her daily caused the child to live in anxiety and fear.
Hopefully, you are beginning to see why it was necessary for God the Father to send His guilty children out of His daily presence. God knew Adam and Eve could no longer face Him in love, their shame and fear kept them from fellowshipping with Him. So God, out of mercy sent Adam and Eve, away from Paradise. Really God accommodated them, because He could not stop loving His image and likeness, and desired to keep fellowshipping with them, but Adam and Eve could no longer face God because of their quilt. This is the same reason we don’t fellowship with God, today. Our fears, guilt, shame, and uncertainties keep us following different religious doctrines and laws, given by man, as the Pharisee of Jesus day. As is says in Isaiah 29:13, "These people who are following the laws of mankind only confess Me with their mouths, but their hearts are far from Me." They are afraid of a true relationship with Me, and they are blinded by their need to follow others, and being acceptable to men, is more important than coming directly to Me, so they go to sign posts (preacher, pastor, pope, or fortune tellers) and some visit them all.
Now to continue, let us understand it was not God’s desire to send Adam and Eve out of His presence, if so God would not have created them in His image, and God did not make a mistake when he created mankind in His likeness. I am simply saying that God would have to be senile to banish Himself, since we were created from His likeness, meaning there is a part of God in every mankind (God’s spirit). God protected Adam and Eve after their fall, remember God clothes spiritual mankind in skin of dust to protect him from the physical elements outside Eden.
Maybe it will help if we look closer at the Bible’s revelation of what happened, instead of man’s interpretation of what they think happened. In Gen. 1:26 we find God creating mankind in His own image and likeness, and notifying everything in existence that mankind has the dominion over everything on earth. Gen. 1:28 states God blessed man and woman and told them to be fruitful and replenish the earth, and to use the earth’s resources for the betterment of mankind, in service to God.
Now when we get to Gen. 2:3 we discover God is finished with His work, and take a rest from all His work. Reading further (Gen. 2:5 we find there is no man on earth. But didn’t God just speak to Adam and Eve, in Gen. 1:28 and tell them to be fruitful and fill the earth? And in Gen. 1:29 God tells Adam and Eve to look over the earth and see all that He had given them, one thing is certain, they could not use eyeballs to look over all the earth. God was speaking to Adam and Eve on a spiritual level. According to the scriptures God did not form Adam a body of dust and blow His Spirit into mankind until Gen. 2:7. First, we were created as spiritual being that had the Spirit of God, on a spiritual level of daily communication, then God made a form out of dust to house His spirit in mankind, then God fashioned Eden and placed the formed dust, containing His spirit in it. Until, this point mankind is still communicating in harmony with his Father. This is when God tells Adam he can do whatever he wants but, not to get familiar with the knowledge of good and evil. The reason God warned Adam is because he was now in Eden, a place of desire and the knowledge of good and evil. See, if God had not placed Adam in a place a little lower than paradise Adam would have never had a chance to make a choice, but God did not want robots for His image. The creation of mankind was an unselfish act of love. The man was created to fellowship with God and rule the earth from lessons learned in the spirit. Understanding the Bible this way shows us that mankind was created to have more authority, on earth, than spiritual beings. That is why God gave mankind dominion and not angels.
So we have arrived at Adam being placed within the earth atmosphere, filled with the Spirit of his Father. Adam is given charge to name all the animal, and do all that needs doing to maintain Eden. Seeing the animals mate Adam began to lone for his spiritual mate. When Adam desired it was given to him; Eve now stood by his side, but, remember Eve was created spiritually, the same time as Adam, in Gen. 1:27, so why didn’t Adam know he had a mate? Simply, Adam was in Eden (one heaven below paradise) and Eve was yet in paradise. Adam was sent to prepare everything before Eve’s arrival, to Eden. But, after hearing Adam’s request, God transported Eve to Eden.
Eve goes about enjoying the garten and Adam goes about tending the garten; this had to be a wonderful life, especially when we remember these two love birds had no knowledge of good and evil. Let us use people to illustrate the point that Adam was indeed tricked. Suppose you invited a young lady, from a third world country, to live with you, to help her get established, or to live in a higher society. The young lady seems very happy to have a chance for a better life, and to care for you, but really she hates you. Out of the goodness of your heart you cannot fathom someone you have treated as a sister hating you. You invite the person to come and live with you, to sleep in the room next to your bedroom. You live with your husband half a week, and the other half on the job. Unaware of the hate you have invited in your home, you go back and forth, never thinking about the person you have given a chance for a better life can hate you. Her trying to seduce your husband finally become apparent when she quit speaking to you, while living under your roof.
Now if you had trusted your spiritual guidance you would not have gotten in such a situation, but the young lady played on the kindness of you and your husband, and though you know the young lady hates you, your husband cannot see it; you are stuck in a mess. Well, this is what happened to Adam, he got stuck in a mess because he trusted that all Eve brought to him was good. But this time Eve was tricked, being she was unaware of anything good or evil, naive, and ignorant to anything not of the Spirit. This made Eve a good target for anything that was against the Spirit of the Father. This is the reason Eve was the door to good and evil, for Adam was too powerful, and filled with the guidance God gave him, concerning the knowledge of good and evil.
Eve being invested with the same spiritual power and placed besides; Adam is the key. She is such a wife that she shares everything she has with her husband. I hope you are still following me, for we are about finished. So, when Eve discovers there is something outside the spiritual realm of God, she becomes curious and gets involved outside her sphere. Now God could have pulled the curtains, but He didn’t. And to be just God could not rightly pulled the curtains, because a part of Himself was in mankind, and God had given control of Eden to mankind. So the only thing God could do was go retrieve His children and give them a chance to live outside their guilt zone. When we see the truth we will understand that if God were not just He would have allowed Adam and Eve to remain behind the bush, until they turned to dust. But, God gave them His Spirit and refused to allow His creation to perish. That is why we still inhabit the earth. Now truly if God were a punishing God He would have punished Adam and Eve, but instead He protected them and gave them another chance. And God gave mankind a chance because we were created in His image.
Let me close by preferring you to Rom. 3:25 which says that God put Jesus before the whole world to show His righteousness and divine forbearance, had passed over mankind’s former sins without punishment.