I heard an interesting thing the other day. In the Jewish midrash, and in Eastern Christian tradition, it is said that Adam & Eve never sinned again after their expulsion from the garden. Obviously not something to build doctrine on but it is a fascinating commentary on how affected they might have been by the Fall, especially given that most of us sin daily.
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Sorry I posted this on the wrong thread.
Emphasizing the power of sin over human beings is a dishonor to God's creative and redemptive abilities and talents. It makes perfect sense to me that when God created supremely beautiful and perfect creatures in Adam and Eve, and the rest of humanity, that these creatures would be dominated by that perfection and beauty. Why would perfect creatures, and that is how God created us be helpless, pathetic imbeciles doomed to sin or even terribly challenged by it. After Adam and Eve sinned, I see it likely and much more than just plausible that they would not sin again.
It is the most logical conclusion of any rational exercise ever undertaken to understand that a great and powerful God who dominates and destroys sin and rules over it would create creatures like himself who would also rule over sin rather than be ruled by it. Remember, it is not sin itself that is the downfall of Adam and Eve and other human sinners, but the infinitely powerful will instilled by God into one of His blessed creatures that CHOOSES THE SIN FREELY WITHOUT ANY PROVOCATION OR UNDUE PRESSURE.
This is a testament to God's power invested in his creatures through and in their WILL, not the power of sin. Sin is a baby pathetic and sissy experience and has absolutely no power or sway in existence on its own. Its relevance is in the WILL or CHOICE of God's grand creatures, who use the grandness of his power and beauty in their creative being to CHOOSE AND WILL something so absolutely pathetic. Think of how this must infuriate God, to see the grandness of HIS WILL replicated in HIS CREATURES, turned to sin. The downfall of Adam & Eve and sinful humans is not sin, the devil, Satan, Lucifer, etc it is plain and simply their WILL.
An analogy would be similar to if someone were offered three dishes on a table, one a delicious gourmet meal, one a bland bowl of cereal, and one a heaping, smelly steamy bowl of feces. After seeing the offering they freely and without coercion plunged their faces into the bowl of feces, gorge themselves on as much as possible and when done turn around to their brothers and sisters watching them and start to tremble and say, "The bowl of shit made me eat it. I couldn't help it." How truly pathetic!