“With how much more fervor should the first man have celebrated the Divine goodness as He walked forth upon the new creation in all its loveliness and beauty, and was regaled on every hand with the tokens of the Divine regard! How must his heart have overflowed as he sounded the mysterious depths of his being, and felt the grand and glorious capacities with which he was endowed! His first utterance must have been praise, his first impulse to throw himself upon the ground and bless that God who had made him what he was. It was amazing goodness to have furnished him with all of the blessings that crowned his lot, considered merely as a servant.” James H. Thomwell, Collected Writings Vol. 1 Theology (1875)

Adam was not just a priest; he was God’s high priest of natural theology. Adam was of the earth (cf. I Cor. 15:47) and therefore could not look upon God in all His glory (cf. Ex. 33:20). Spirit beings could see God in all of His manifested glory (cf. Lu. 1:19 with Rev. 4:6-8). The elect spirit beings worship God through Manifested Glory Theology, but seek to learn more of God through His revealed theology to man (cf. I Pet. 1:12 with Eph. 3:10). Adam was created sinless and perfect (cf. Gen. 1:31), but with the potential to sin (cf. Gen. 2:17; 3:6). He could not know God as the Redeemer God (cf. Eph. 2:8). He could only know and worship Him as the great Creator God! The Son explained Natural Theology to him.

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.“ Psalm 19:1 KJAV

“When we behold the heavens, we cannot but be elevated, by the contemplation of them, to Him who is their great Creator; and the beautiful arrangement and wonderful variety which distinguish the courses and station of the heavenly bodies, together with the beauty and splendor which are manifest in them, cannot but furnish us with an evident proof of His providence.” John Calvin, The Psalms of David and others (1571)

Try to place yourself in Adam’s place the moment he came alive in the presence of God the Son, (by means of a Christophany appearance), and imagine what it must have been like to behold the grandeur of all that he could see. Then to have God the Son personally instruct him in all things necessary for him to function, not simply as the first man, but as the original type of Christ. Adam was no simple caveman with the mentality of a child. That type of false theology is the result of the influence of anthropocentric thinking based upon the lie of cultural evolution. Adam was created trichotomous which is spirit, soul, and body (cf. I Thess. 5:23). The Son took Adam into the Garden of Eden and introduced him to his home and to a large land grant that went with it (cf. Gen. 2:7, 8). The Son explained to Adam the covenant of works which the God was making with Him (cf. Gen. 1:28-31 with 2:8-17). The implication is that the Son taught Adam all he needed to fulfill it.