{"id":3363,"date":"2018-07-26T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2018-07-26T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:35:19","slug":"adams-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Adam&#8217;s Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_161408.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_161408-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_161408-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_161408-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_161408-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Interesting sign!<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:\u00a0 Yep, this guy who owns it blames everything on the weather or his raisin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Well God has another view.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is from Dwight Pentecost<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important questions which you can face is the question, &#8220;How far did Adam fall?&#8221;\u00a0 A number of different answers have been given to that question.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal says that Adam fell upward, so that Adam&#8217;s lot was better after the fall than before the fall because something was added to the personality of Adam which he had been deprived previously.\u00a0 Consequently, Adam was a fuller and more complete person after the fall than he was before the fall.\u00a0 There are those who say that when Adam fell, he feel over the cliff, but that when he was going over the cliff he grabbed something on the top of the cliff and held on.\u00a0 He fell downward, but he held on before he slipped over the brink, and if he exerts enough will and enough strength he can pull himself back up cover the brink and stand on solid ground again.\u00a0 Those who have that concept are trying to lift themselves by their own bootstraps and work their way into heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there is the teaching that says that when Adam fell, he slipped over the brink but he landed on a ledge part way down and that the ledge is the church and the church will lift him up and put him on solid ground again.<\/p>\n<p>But the Word of God says that when Adam fell he fell all the way.\u00a0 He became depraved, totally depraved, unable to do anything to please God.\u00a0 He is under sin, dead, under judgement, under Satan&#8217;s control; he is lost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Genesis 6:9<\/p>\n<p>These are the records of the generations of Noah, Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Me:\u00a0 Interesting sign! 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