The First Dispensation

The First Dispensation

In the Garden of Eden

Household rule of the Dispensation

Do not eat from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Genesis 2:17

Only one law

Penalty for breaking the law was dying

Spiritual Death (Separation from God), Romans 5:15

Physical Death (Soul and Spirit separated from the body), Romans 5:12-14

Other instructions involving daily activity but not conduct

Tend to the garden, Genesis 2:15

Multiply and fill the earth, Genesis 1:28

Rule over all animals and sea life, Genesis 1:28

Diet consist of herbs and fruit, Genesis 1:29