These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. ( Psalm 50:21)
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. ( Ecclesiastes 8:11)
When we go back to the garden; we have the first idea that presumption is at play. We see in Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. After this they continued briefly it seems until they heard the Lord; realizing it seems that their covering was insufficient. Then of course they were discovered and God had to give them a covering and they passed along blame down the line to Satan. In reality of course the serpent got the worst end of the deal; having to crawl on its belly in the dirt forevermore after the event; although things weren't exactly stellar for man either. Guess it was no skin off Satan's back in regard to the serpent's fate (if you get my drift).
Or; as the words to the song from what is said to be the band Squeeze
Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the fruit was discovered.
Now of course that stanza is talking about infidelity; but in a sense they were spiritually acting that way with the fruit in the garden.
Anyway; my point is presuming things would be the same was a fool's errand and flopped from the onset. We move on to the book of Job (although I have examples starting in Genesis chronologically Job was said to be perhaps the oldest book in the Bible). Anyway; we see in Job 1 and 2 what was going down in the spirit realm with Satan and then the presumption or perhaps assumption that God was the cause of all his problems and of course his friends also with the presumption he must have done something to deserve his plight.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. ( Psalm 50:21)
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. ( Ecclesiastes 8:11)
When we go back to the garden; we have the first idea that presumption is at play. We see in Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. After this they continued briefly it seems until they heard the Lord; realizing it seems that their covering was insufficient. Then of course they were discovered and God had to give them a covering and they passed along blame down the line to Satan. In reality of course the serpent got the worst end of the deal; having to crawl on its belly in the dirt forevermore after the event; although things weren't exactly stellar for man either. Guess it was no skin off Satan's back in regard to the serpent's fate (if you get my drift).
Or; as the words to the song from what is said to be the band Squeeze
Tempted by the fruit of another
Tempted but the fruit was discovered.
Now of course that stanza is talking about infidelity; but in a sense they were spiritually acting that way with the fruit in the garden.
Anyway; my point is presuming things would be the same was a fool's errand and flopped from the onset. We move on to the book of Job (although I have examples starting in Genesis chronologically Job was said to be perhaps the oldest book in the Bible). Anyway; we see in Job 1 and 2 what was going down in the spirit realm with Satan and then the presumption or perhaps assumption that God was the cause of all his problems and of course his friends also with the presumption he must have done something to deserve his plight.
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