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Choosing Sides Of The Play ' The Garden Of Eden ' Essay

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Choosing Sides

Back in School, especially in the elementary grades we played dodge ball, Kickball, Softball and basketball. There was no mortal danger or unchangeable consequence, no life altering permanence to choose the loosing side in one of these games. It was just a game that lasted for an hour or less and the next day we would play again. Aside from the occasional scraped knee or bruised ego, no real harm was done; it was light-hearted competition for the moment.

Ever since the Garden of Eden when God gave man free will to serve Him, Man has made choices; choices about what he would eat or wear; when he would awaken and when he would sleep. Man learned quickly and made many right choices, but there came a day when that would change. The first wrong made by mankind was made by Eve who was deceived by the serpent in the Garden. It was her choice to disobey God and it had permanent consequences that still affect her descendants to this day.

The Blessing and the Burden of having Free Will is that We Have to Choose. There is always a crossroads directly before us where we must choose to go this ay or that. Not all choices are between absolute wrong and absolute right. Some choices will be between what is good for us and what is best for us and we must decide which will be followed.

We grow up learning to make more and more decisions as the years go by.

The majority of our decisions will have only to do with what clothes to wear or what flavor of soft drink to

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