Relationships – Part IV

Opening Question: What is your favorite kind of fruit? And vegetable?

Q 2. Which blessings are you most thankful to God for?

Q 3. Which freedoms are most important, in your opinion?

Q 4. Read and discuss the relationship between God and man in the very beginning stage of history, according to Genesis 1:1, 26-29; 2:8,9,15,16,17 below:

26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." 29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground -- trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

Q 5. Why do think God put a restriction on man’s freedom?
Q 6. Can you think of some modern day examples of restrictions that are placed on us?
Q 7. Are restrictions good or bad? Explain.
Q 8. What did God say would happen if His restriction was ignored by the man?