Unbelievers in general and evolutionists in particular, won’t admit that there is an origin for morality higher than the individual or society collectively. If there is no moral standard for right and wrong, then anything is permissible. When God instructed Adam about the trees in the Garden, he set in motion the ideal of right behavior versus wrong behavior. Also inherent in that instruction is the free will that each person possesses which allows him or her to choose. God told Adam he could eat of certain trees but not of the other tree. Adam was confronted with a choice; eat of the good tree as God told him or not follow God’s way and do what he wasn’t supposed to do.

It’s instructive that the serpent didn’t approach Adam. The serpent waited until Eve had been created and then he approached her. He did so with good reason. Given that God gave Adam the instructions before Eve was created, it signifies that Adam was given the responsibility for engaging in right conduct and leadership; and with a reading of Genesis 3: 1-4, it can be concluded  that Adam told Eve what God had said about the trees. But when they were caught for not following God’s instruction, Adam blamed it on Eve even though he was supposed to be the leader in the marital union as Paul wrote in Ephesians 5:22-24, Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. It’s obvious that Adam didn’t exercise leadership and Eve didn’t follow Adams instruction either. In that manner, Adam wasn’t the savior of either one of them.

However, when God gave Adam and Eve a free will enabling them to choose, he gave them something else, which each and every person possesses, and which leads humans to make trouble for themselves and others. That something else is desire and the serpent appealed to it when he beguiled Eve, Genesis 3:1-6. (Also see Genesis 3:16 for desire) Evolution has no answer for the origin of human desire and the right or wrong behavior it causes.

When free will is coupled with desire, one of two behaviors will occur. Either a person will do the right thing out of a desire to please God, or they will follow an illicit desire and do the wrong thing. There is no in between and the intentionally wrong behavior that comes forth is called disobedience to God.

When the serpent appealed to Eve’s desire to be like God, the serpent, as Paul wrote of Satan in 2 Corinthians 11:14, And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light  knew that neither she nor Adam could be so. The serpent was a true believer and knew what God would do. Unbelief, which sprang from the desire to be like God, has brought death and misery to the people of the world to this day.

Trying to be like God, whom the evolutionists deny, they are each their own god, making the rules for right and wrong as they go about preaching their false doctrines. They do not dare give any credence to the origin for a moral standard; or even that one exists outside of each human’s notion of morals; or what society declares, for to do so would shatter their vaunted evolutionary theory. As will be seen in the next article, they dig their hole deeper and deeper when they deny that a moral standard exists.

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