The American Wisdom Series 
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The following study is a excerpt from "WHAT WAS THE REAL SIN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN?!?" as published by the WATCHMEN BIBLE STUDY GROUP   -       

Did Adam and Eve eat the wrong apple, and cause death and suffering to be entered into the world for every subsequent soul on this earth, from that time in the Garden of Eden forward until the end of times?

Absurd as this may sound, it is what most Christians are taught from their respective Church systems (Denominations and Faiths). Let's first look at it from their skewed perspective, then we will learn the truth from our Father's Word; The Bible.

They (our religious leaders in the Churches, Temples, and Synagogues of today) would have us to believe that Almighty God would be so petty as to punish some twelve billion souls, because two of them were insubordinate in their selection of produce. Yet they don't teach us why this would so infuriate such a kind, loving, and forgiving God; and kindle His wrath to such a magnitude that He would allow death to enter in for all of mankind.

They can't answer why God would do that, because there is no answer for what did not happen, their facts are wrong from page one. And if you start out on any quest of any knowledge, whether the knowledge be of everyday issues or the knowledge be of the Divine and perfect plan of Almighty God; you must start out at a sound genesis (beginning) or you can never hope to end at a sound terminus (conclusion).

Let's not waste valuable study time debunking the half-truths and out and out lies of the deceived. Our time is better spent realizing the truth as it was laid down to us by the inspired Word of Almighty God, through His Spirit; The Holy Spirit, through the pen of the Prophets and Apostles, the scribes, and the Translators, finally into the book that all true Christians count on for the Way and the Truth. God did not and will not let us down when it comes to His instructions. The answers are there in our Bible, but man likes to create his own answers, his own rules, his own plan toward salvation. God however, will not honor the promises that false teachers may have given you if they go against what God gave you an able mind to read in the Bible.

We will learn in this In-depth bible Study what the real sin was in the Garden of Eden. We will learn the cause and effect of the actions of Adam and Eve that day some six-thousand years ago. Most importantly, when we are done here today you will understand what happened, why it happened, and the result of it; as it's repercussions rock to the very foundation of the plan of God, till that final day of judgment and the passing of some into eternal life with God (Heaven) and the sentencing of others into the abyss, the lake of fire (Hell) with satan and his lot.

If we have been lied to since Sunday School about the original sin, and if those that we respect the most in our religious institutions for the truth have mislead us; then surely God would have foreseen it and warned us in His Holy Word. I mean, did not Jesus say to us in [Mk 13:23]: "But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things."

In the scripture below, it is speaking of our generation and the onslaught of false teachers and false doctrines, it also illustrates that we ourselves are guilty of bringing these lies upon ourselves by looking for easy way outs and short-cuts to the perfect plan of God:

2 Tim 4:3-4 
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (KJV)

Mankind brings deception upon himself through ignorance of God's written Word, The Bible. It seems that we are all too content to spend an hour once a week at the local Church (if that), go through the same rituals, sing a song, sit, stand-up, kneel down, maybe even dance and shout, drop a few dollars of conscience money into the basket and leave; never learning anything about God's Word or His Will for us. We instead rely upon the man standing at the pulpit to tell us what God says to us and what He expects from us. And if that man is wrong, through his own ignorance or through malice, we are willing to be "victims" of false teaching and the lies of satan that can bring us to no good end. There will be no "victims" in "Hell." God is much too fair for that! In other words, those who do not overcome deserve what they receive.

All our answers are in the Bible, God saw to that, and while it is necessary at times to turn to a teacher to help us begin to learn and understand our Father's Word, you had better be sure that you check him out yourself in your Bible, or you may be misled. God's written Word is Divinely inspired, it was given as perfect in every way, but some is lost by the agency of man as he hands down and translates the Holy Scriptures. That is not to say that the truth is lost, God forbid, but it does mean that you are going to have to do you own deeper studies to arrive at the pure truth. But that takes effort, time, it takes action on your part. I know you have the time for God because your studying now, and that probably pleases God more than anything else when one of His beloved children whom He created, care enough about Him to read and study from the letter that He wrote to them, that He wrote to you, The Bible!