Adam, in the garden, was in a state of acquiring a right. Only upon fulfilment of the conditions of the covenant, having done constantly and perfectly what was commanded, could he claim and expect what God had promised.
As we know and understand, Adam never acquired that right and the consequences go on unto this day. If you do not know and understand, if you think that it is all a fable then consider, it is the life of positive holiness which Adam had and knew yet lost and which now lies buried in the essence of all God's children. To reclaim the image of God, recognise the majestic purity and divine holiness of our Creator and open your heart to the presence of the Holy Spirit - without contact, without the operation of the Holy Spirit there can be no inner renewal and no conforming to the image of God.
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War in the Spirit
Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey
The Holy Bible AV1611
Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
The Holy Bible AV1611
Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Canons of Dort III-IV.14
Faith is therefore to be considered as the gift of God, not on account of its being offered by God to man, to be accepted or rejected at his pleasure, but because it is in reality conferred upon him, breathed and infused into him; not even because God bestows the power or ability to believe and then expects that man should by the exercise of his own free will consent to the terms of salvation and actually believe in Christ, but because He who works in man both to will and to work, and indeed all things in all, produces both the will to believe and the act of believing also.