... created the world, He wanted his people to enjoy the rest with him; he wants us to live in a continual Sabbath with Him, that was always God's intent. However once Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Good and Evil and sin entered the world, we have been separated from God's Kingdom and enjoying this eternal rest. Despite the sinful ... nature of man, God has still tried to bring his kingdom to us. After Adam and Eve's sin ruined God's pattern for His Kingdom, the Kingdom became perished and man lived independently from God, they turned away from God and faced his punishment and curses ......

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... that "the church [..] cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament from the people with whom G-d in His ineffable mercy concluded the former convenant."1 The stories of Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, Cain and Abel, Abraham, in fact all of the traditions with the sole exception of Jesus and his teachings, are Judaic in origin. With the ... which is completely foreign to Judaic traditions, that of original sin. The idea of original sin, that we are all born bearing the taint of the first sin committed by Adam in the Garden of Eden, is completely contrary to the Jewi...

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... us an exactly holistic picture. He brings up instances in his life like the time when he stole pears from a pear tree and fed them to swine comparing it with Adam and Eve stealing Apples in the Garden of Eden. Many have said that The Confessions are very much like a parallel of the Parabal of the Prodigal Son which appears in ... ...

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