July 06, 2026

Around Lake Haigler Mirror — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina

Here’s the interesting thing: Adam and Eve were punished with death and hell everlasting, kicked out of the Garden of Eden and made to curse the day they were created because they wanted to eat the Forbidden Fruit. And everyone born from Adam and Eve were cursed from birth with the curse of Adam and Eve and are going to hell unless they repent of their sin for wanting the Forbidden Fruit and believe in Jesus and his redeeming/atoning death on the cross which will guarantee them heaven when they die, but it won’t guarantee their children heaven when they die–they have to do their own believing and wanting to go to heaven when they die. That is the first problem. The second is this. Adam and Eve wanted to eat the Forbidden Fruit. And the curse of Adam and Eve applied to everyone. But. Everyone is told if they want to go to heaven when they die they have to believe in Jesus Christ’s atoning, redeeming death on the cross. Wanting was the curse of Adam and Eve but wanting is the salvation of all their ancestors. Adam and Eve couldn’t trust their wanting, but their descendants can trust their own wanting. Making bad choices was not inherited. What exactly was it that their descendants inherited? What exactly was it that Adam and Eve did wrong? Wanting what they wanted? It is hard to know what the rules are. No?

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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