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44 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
to slavery all through their lives." Hebrews
2 :14,15, NW "For this purpose the Son of God
was made manifest, namely, to break up the
works of the Devil ." 1 John 3 :8, NW God has
had to endure much by permitting wickedness for
settling the supreme issue, and we can count his
patience as adding up to our everlasting salvation .
9 Pronouncing sentence upon Adam and Eve,
God assured Eve that she would not immediately
be put to death but would give birth to many
children, subject to her husband's rule . For Adam's
guilt God pronounced a curse on the ground outside
of Eden and added : "In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground ; for out of it wast thou taken : for dust
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return ." Genesis
3 :16-19 He pronounced no condemnation to
eternal torment in a hell of fire and brimstone
after Adam and Eve's death . That would have required
eternal life for them . God's unchangeable
law must stand and be enforced : "In the day that
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die ." Genesis
2 :17 For the very purpose that the sinner
rebels might not live forever God drove them out
of the paradise of pleasure into the cursed earth .
"And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of
us, knowing good and evil : now, therefore, lest
perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of
the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever . And the
Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure,
to till the earth from which he was taken. And
9. How did God judge Adam and Eve and then execute
judgment?