Our faith does not come from our own free will. We are sinners. we are in bondage until Christ sets us free (John 8:36). Going back to the beginning, we learn that the first sin was not an act of freedom. It was an act of disobedience. It was an act of rebellion against the divine command - " of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat... "you shall not eat ... " (Genesis 2:17). By eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil chose to go their own way rather than God's way. This action led them into bondage. Believing "that old serpent called the Devil and Satan" (Revelation 12:9) - ""You shall not surely die" (Genesis 3:4) - they brought themselves into a bondage which can only be broken when we look beyond "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" where they attempted to take salvation into their own hands. We look from there to another tree - our Saviour "bore our sins in His own body on the tree ... " (1 Peter 3:24).
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