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The life Yahshua is speaking of is the soul life of man. It is the mind, will, and
emotions of man. Man’s mind can contrive many paths to walk down that seem good and
acceptable. Man’s emotions can passionately urge the pursuit of a particular course. Man’s
will can determine to walk down paths of his own choosing. Solomon stated that “there is
a way that seems good unto a man, but its end is the way of death (Proverbs 14:12, 16:25).
The apostle Paul also spoke of the necessity of turning away from the desires of our flesh
that we might walk the path that the Spirit guides us down.

Romans 8:13
For if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are
putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

How did man come to be in this state where present within him is an innate sense of
good and evil that is out of harmony with the mind of God? The opening chapters of Genesis
reveal the answer.
When Adam, whose name means man, was originally created he did not have an
innate soulish sense of good and evil. Adam received his guidance and his understanding
of what was good from God. We are told that God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden and
He gave him the charge to tend it. We are also told that God caused many trees to grow
from the ground, some of which were good for food, but the fruit of one tree was forbidden.

Genesis 2:8-17
And Yahweh God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the
man whom He had formed. And out of the ground Yahweh God caused to grow every
tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst
of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil... Then Yahweh God
took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. And
Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat
freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in
the day that you eat from it you shall surely die."

At this point in Adam’s life, he had no internal sense of good and evil. He neither had
this capacity in his soul, neither did he have the indwelling Spirit of God to make known the
will of God to him. Adam walked with God and communed with Him on an external level.
The Father made known His will to Adam through means of this relationship. It is revealed
a bit later that it was the manner of God to walk in the Garden and to meet and speak with
Adam there.

Genesis 3:8-9
And they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God
among the trees of the garden. Then Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him,
"Where are you?"

Adam, in his original created form had no sense of good and evil present within him.
All of his ways were determined by communication with Yahweh. Yahweh spoke to Adam