The Cherubim and the Flaming Sword

The matter to which we attended in our former article was the heinousness of the sin of eating the forbidden fruit. Man rejected the standard of good and evil with which God had supplied him. He usurped God's place and insisted on doing the thing which the Lord God alone can and may do, namely, determine what is good and what constitutes evil. The wisdom of the Almighty was rejected by man, and the lie of the devil was embraced and practiced. The act of eating was a declaration on the part of...