ADAM
Adam and his wife, Eve, were real people, as Christ and others in the New Testament referred to them. If we do not believe in Adam and Eve, then all we have left to believe is that we came from animals (See EVOLUTION and MAN).
“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and…made he a woman” (Genesis 2:21–22). This taking of Adam’s “rib” could not be theistic evolution (the belief that God used evolution to create mankind). The Bible tells us in Genesis 1:31 that this took place between the “evening and the morning” of the sixth day. This gives no time for the eons necessary for evolution. Christ said, “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?” (Matthew 19:4). Christ did not believe that mankind started from a single cell, but there were two sexes, “male and female,” from the “beginning,” which is in reference to Genesis 1. If you cannot believe the foundation of the Bible (Genesis 1), then everything else will fall. What is your self-worth if you are a product of chance mutations? And by comparison, what is your self-worth if you were made “in the image of God”?
ADULTERY
In the Bible, adultery and fornication are not one and the same but are referred to in the Scriptures as two different acts (see Mark 7:21). Adultery is extramarital sex with someone other than your wife or husband. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” Exodus 20:14). Fornication is sex before marriage, and youth are to flee from it (See FORNICATION).
Whores increase sins among men (see Proverbs 23:26–27 and Deuteronomy 23:17). But God blesses the relationship between a husband and wife in marriage. “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” The worst day in King David’s life was the day he committed adultery, as there were many consequences from this sin (2 Samuel 12:1-15). None of us are better that King David, yet he fell into this sin, “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.” (I Corinthians 10:12-14) “Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:” (Proverbs 5:8, see Hebrews 13:4; see MARRIAGE and FORNICATION).
ALCOHOL (See DRUNKENNESS)
Adam and his wife, Eve, were real people, as Christ and others in the New Testament referred to them. If we do not believe in Adam and Eve, then all we have left to believe is that we came from animals (See EVOLUTION and MAN).
“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and…made he a woman” (Genesis 2:21–22). This taking of Adam’s “rib” could not be theistic evolution (the belief that God used evolution to create mankind). The Bible tells us in Genesis 1:31 that this took place between the “evening and the morning” of the sixth day. This gives no time for the eons necessary for evolution. Christ said, “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?” (Matthew 19:4). Christ did not believe that mankind started from a single cell, but there were two sexes, “male and female,” from the “beginning,” which is in reference to Genesis 1. If you cannot believe the foundation of the Bible (Genesis 1), then everything else will fall. What is your self-worth if you are a product of chance mutations? And by comparison, what is your self-worth if you were made “in the image of God”?
ADULTERY
In the Bible, adultery and fornication are not one and the same but are referred to in the Scriptures as two different acts (see Mark 7:21). Adultery is extramarital sex with someone other than your wife or husband. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” Exodus 20:14). Fornication is sex before marriage, and youth are to flee from it (See FORNICATION).
Whores increase sins among men (see Proverbs 23:26–27 and Deuteronomy 23:17). But God blesses the relationship between a husband and wife in marriage. “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” The worst day in King David’s life was the day he committed adultery, as there were many consequences from this sin (2 Samuel 12:1-15). None of us are better that King David, yet he fell into this sin, “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.” (I Corinthians 10:12-14) “Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:” (Proverbs 5:8, see Hebrews 13:4; see MARRIAGE and FORNICATION).
ALCOHOL (See DRUNKENNESS)
