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What should Adam have done when the serpent started talking to Eve? What would you do? <\/p>\n

You\u2019d scream, probably. But then you\u2019d pray, hard. Because you\u2019d know that only God can deliver you from a dragon. <\/p>\n

We sometimes think that Adam should have stepped up and handled the serpent bare-handed. Perhaps; but that confrontation would have been a confrontation of faith, Adam relying not on his own strength but wholly on God. <\/p>\n

Unfallen Adam, in short, should have cried out in faith to his Savior Yahweh to save him. To remain unfallen, he needed to be saved. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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