Adam, unlike any human being since him, was vastly different than us, in many ways. Adam was created walking with God already, and knew no pain, sickness, sorrow, worry... none of those things existed for him yet, because the fall hadn't happened yet.

The part that's important to understand, that I think alot of us might not really think about, is the fact that Adam was created, walking with God. He didn't know anything else, except TO walk with God, until the event at the tree that changed humanity ever since.

Clearly Adam was created with a will of his own. We all have a will of our own too, and we use it every day, all day long to make choices. Adam did it too, living his life in the garden making whatever choices he might have made there.

The big difference was, Adam's first nature, compared to our first nature. While his was to serve God, ours is to sin, and live IN sin, since we are born into a fallen world, to fallen human parents.

When God created Adam, He did in fact create him with a will, and clearly a will capable of choosing evil, over good, since that's exactly what he did. (It's very important to understand first nature here, because Adam's was TO serve God, therefore he was literally incapable of doing anything else, UNLESS God enabled him to do that, similar to the fact that a pear tree's nature is to produce pears, and unless God reaches in and changes things, that pear tree will ONLY produce pears). Clearly He also had to have enabled Adam to do that, since Jesus was slain before Adam was every created. (This is something to really think about).

When Adam DID choose disobediance over obediance, and sinned against God, humanity fell, and the human race was forever changed. Sin, death, sickness, sorrow, pain, and all those other nasty things entered the world. By that one act in the garden.

The ability that Adam had, to choose evil over good, or vice versa, was yet another thing, in a long list of things, that was forever corrupted in human beings, from that minute forward. Humanity became spiritually dead, a fallen race.

We still have the ability to choose right and wrong, and most unsaved people do it every day, when they choose to obey the law, do good things for their kids, and things along those lines... but once we enter the spiritual arena, things are different.

Scripture says, God quickens us, from death, to life, in Him. God opens our dead ears, and dead eyes, and dead hearts, and enables us TO serve Him and walk with Him. God has to reach in and change OUR first nature (a fallen one, serving the lusts of the flesh), to the new nature that desires to walk with Him.

The thing is though, where Adam was in fact created with the ability to choose evil, because he did, does NOT mean that we are likewise able to choose holiness.

Scripture is filled with verses that tell us over and over again, that we are a fallen people, spiritually dead, unable to come to Christ unless drawn by God to do that. Verses that tell us we have to be regenerated by the Holy Spirit, to even see God.

So where Adam did have a will to choose evil, we do not have a will to choose holiness, unless God changes our nature, and enables us TO do that.

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