What Humanity Lost in the Garden

So man had God's nature, man had God's likeness, man had God's authority, man had access to

God's presence. All man was left with was to take of the life of God, but the man never

reached that life. The devil truncated the, the, the process so the

man could no longer possess of it. And when the man rebelled against God,

something happened. The four things that he already had, he lost all of them.

He lost God's nature. John 8:44, "Jesus came and said, 'You have your father,

the devil. The lusts of your father shall ye do.'" So the man took upon himself

the nature of the devil. He lost God's character. Lust replaced love. Before he fell,