The Sin of Unbelief

So the glory is the righteousness of God…

Lucifer fell from his high position as the worship arc angel, because of his evil ambition on to be like God. The fallen angel used the same evil ambition of “to be like God” to tempt Eve and she believed.

Genesis 3:5 ~ For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

Whoever tries to gain the position of to be like God, is evil in God’s eye and doomed to failure. Eve being tempted, through believing in the evil one by the eating of the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, sinned against God and lost their radiant glory. As the radiant glory leaved them, they realized that they were naked.

Romans 3: 23 ~ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

When God created Adam, man was made a little lower that the heavenly being and was crowned with glory and honor (Psalm 8:5). This glory and honor is the righteousness of God. Man was crowned with God’s Righteousness. They were not naked then because they were clothed with the glory i.e. the righteousness of God.


Adam and Eve had sinned because of their unbelief when God commended them not to eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Instead, they believe in the devil. It was the sin of unbelief that caused them to fall.

In the Garden, God told Adam that among all the trees in the Garden, he must not eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that was in the middle of the Garden, for when he ate of it he would surely die! Adam failed to believe God and ate from the tree and he died.

Today, it is the Father’s will that we are not to “eat” from any “trees” in this world except the “Tree” (Who gave up His life) in the center of this world. For when we eat of this “Tree” we will surely live! Those who believe the Father and eat of this “Tree” will surely live.

In the Gospel of John, God declared that He so love the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life… Let’s take the Father’s word as it is. i.e. all the sin of this world had been put away by Jesus at the Cross two thousand years ago. Today, it is not the sin of this world that hinder the people to enter into heaven but the sin of unbelief.

When we are born again, we are a New Creation in Christ. We are taught with regard to our former way of life, to put off our old self which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires through repentance i.e. renewal of our mind; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and hollies (Ephesians 4:22~24). If we are a New Creation, we are already like God in true righteousness and hollies.

This is the Good News; and according to Apostle Paul, there is no other Good News! We are saved by grace through faith. When we believe in Christ, we are already created to be like God in true righteousness and hollies.

Hey, cheer up... we are righteous and holy! Believe and don’t ever try to add anymore righteousness to your life…!