Freedom the wide gate...Christ the narrow gate.

Many claim that  Adam and Eve were given the freedom to do anything they liked with one rule, "Don't eat the apple".

I would like to ask you to take a closer look at God's words about the above statement..please refer to Genesis 2:16-17....& Genesis 3:1-6.

First of all "freedom / free will" is absolute. Either one is free or he isn't. A slave that is free is no longer subject to the authority of his previous master. Please look up definition of "freedom".

You will see in the scripture that the One God "commands" man that he can take freely (without judgement or penalty) of any tree in the garden EXCEPT the tree of "knowledge of good and evil". Therefore man is NOT FREE to take of ANY / ALL trees....to which the One God warned man that if he were to do so ( to disobey the commandment) that the penalty would be death. It is clear that the One Creator Master did not give man the FREEDOM to do his own will.

You will see in Genesis 3 that , now, absolute freedom is the subject presented to Eve by satan.

Satan asked Eve a question..."..did God indeed (really?) say to you "You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"".

In other words, did God really say that you are not free to eat of every tree?

Satan is now talking about the access to absolute freedom.

Eve replies that they can eat of every tree except the forbidden tree, and that disobedience would bring on the consequence of death......that they are not free to take of the forbidden tree.

But satan proceeds to advance his belief that the tree of knowledge of good and evil is instead good, that it instead represents the freedom to define and justify 'good and evil" ...be like 'a god'...and that this absolute freedom would not die.

And Eve, the helper of Adam and mother of mankind, saw - redefined that the forbidden tree was instead good for one's sustenance (gain), pleasure, and wisdom.

She desired now to be free to define and establish "good and evil" , to establish what is right for her, her "rights", in her own eyes. But this "freedom to take of every tree, including the forbidden tree" was really a 'taken freedom'...in reality a disobedience of the Will and Commandment of the One Creator.

Today, this FREEDOM of Self-Rights, Freedom of all religions, is worshipped by all mankind.

This Freedom is the way of the world, the large gate opening that all desire to go through. 

Is it not suspicious that all of mankind worships this wide open FREEDOM but that the Lord Jesus Christ said that the gateway to Him is narrow and few will find?

And you claim that this FREEDOM was given to man by the One God.

...it is instead the deception of satan, for he believes and desires to be free to do his will instead that of the One Creator, he desires to be free and higher that the One True God.