Adoption

Eph. 1:3-5. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ; According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ un... [Read more]

Adoption: Defined

Adoption is the legal act of taking a child out of one family and putting that child into another family. We are by nature the children of Adam. We are all descendants of our great-great-great-granddaddy Adam. Every human being is descended from Adam. He is a member of that one huge family of Adam. By grace we are taken out of that family and made members o... [Read more]

Adam’s Transgression

Gen. 2:16. 17. "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

Our Articles of Faith say, "We believe in the doctrine of original sin." By that we ... [Read more]

Adam: What Did He Lose When He Sinned?

When God made the man He made him a natural man—a complete man, composed of soul, body and spirit. It takes the three (soul, body and spirit) to constitute a complete man. The man was not a fit subject for heaven, for if he had been, God would have placed him there. God made no mistake, and placed the man in the garden of Eden, where he was capacitate... [Read more]

Adam

Before Adam transgressed the law he was a good natural man. He did not have the God-life, or spiritual life. He was in possession of an upright natural life. He was without sin—good. When he violated the law he lost his moral uprightness. He lost his moral standing. From then to now Adam, in nature, has had absolutely no moral or upright standing with... [Read more]