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Is this the same Yahweh who had to cover Moses with His hand in Exodus 33 so Moses wouldn't die? In a way it is, and in another important distinction it is not. The historic explanation has always believed that the one true God was one God, defined by three persons, the Fath

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what he was doing.) However, "fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Proverbs 1:7) and that fear is what was clearly lacking in Adam's heart. That respectful fear seems to be what God is looking for when He tries the heart, as well as the mind. In Genesis 4 God tests Cain's heart, and as with Adam, gives him a chance to repent in v. 7: "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." However, Cain too, failed the test. The successive genealogy from Adam to Noah is a series of people who did or did not pass God's test when He tried their hearts. Only Enoch, the seventh in line from Adam, fully passed God's test and graduated to the next grade. On earth, though, Noah is a notable example of the life of obedience that was lacking in Adam, such that he "found favor with the Lord" (6:8). Perhaps the most famous test God ever gave a man, after Adam's, was His request to Abraham to sacrifice his son. The request was freighted with meaning on many levels. Abraham must have known that human sacrifice itself, which is what God seemed to be asking for, was in fact abhorrent to God. However, Abraham remembered that God had promised t
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