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If Adam had been able to take it all back; would he? Having realized his terrible mistake—the loss of all he had been given; especially the beautiful Garden of Eden—how happy would he have been just to have it all back. Then again, what if he had not sinned in the first place?
Without Adam’s colossal mistake, what would have happened to the human race—to you and me? What would have been the opportunities afforded to us? Would it have been possible for us to live on forever? Is that what we had lost when he sinned? Was everlasting life an inherent gift that was given to us, but was squandered by the father of all nations? If only God had made a more perfect Adam; wouldn’t we have been better off. Or, is this a question we should even be asking ourselves?
What does the example of the angels tell us. Does it help us in any way to better understand what was really likely to happen. Take the angels and their rebellious conflict which resulted in a full third of them being banished from the kingdom of Heaven. According to the Bible, they were living a beautiful existence until Lucifer—that notorious archangel—persuaded many in their ranks into turning against God—their creator. Was this just another mistake by a jealous personality. Does this seem similar to what had eventually happened to Adam?
How does this conflict, downfall, and this final resolution of the angel’s existence—an event related to a different set of beings—relevant to us? Why did God make reference to this in his revelations to the prophets?
In plain and simple language, was it his destiny, and hardly anything Adam could have done to avert this precipitous downfall?
Answering the question of Adam’s failing seems only to generate its own relatable questions. Like; was God unaware that Adam was going to sin? This is the Hebrew God we are talking about; who happens to know all things, can do all things, and is the creator of the universe we live in. Did he not foresee Adam’s impending downfall? If God did; did he permit it? Or, if there was no way possible for him to have known this was going to happen, how can he then claim omnipotence?
Other—seemingly almost unavoidable—questions comes into view. For example; was God sad that he had created Adam? And if he was, should we still be viewing him as genuinely omnipotent? Shouldn’t God know he was going to be sad? And if he knew; why did he not make the necessary modifications to the prototype Adam, so he could have avoided the failure he was destined to become. Or, were there other choices that Adam could have made—choices more consistent with what God may have actually wanted? How does the free-will concept tries to explain all of this?
What is free-will? And why is it so important to us?
Grasping the free-will concept is of paramount significance if we are to truly understand our Creator and our own intrinsic behavior. Demanding its own time and space, we will delve into this subject matter in the coming weeks.
Believing and trusting in a divine Creator requires that he must be logically plausible, consistent, proven or observably all powerful, and provide sufficient evidence of his existence—that he is somewhere out there. There should be reasonable explanations for all things he does, without the need for, or the help of a theodicy.
All these many little questions we’ve asked, leads to one. Was the creation of Adam flawed? If it was; who made the mistake? Was it Adam or the Creator, himself? These are the questions atheists, agnostics, Christian believers, and many others are all asking without the answers they seek.
Let’s examine them one at a time and see what we’ll find.
Without Adam’s colossal mistake, what would have happened to the human race—to you and me? What would have been the opportunities afforded to us? Would it have been possible for us to live on forever? Is that what we had lost when he sinned? Was everlasting life an inherent gift that was given to us, but was squandered by the father of all nations? If only God had made a more perfect Adam; wouldn’t we have been better off. Or, is this a question we should even be asking ourselves?
What does the example of the angels tell us. Does it help us in any way to better understand what was really likely to happen. Take the angels and their rebellious conflict which resulted in a full third of them being banished from the kingdom of Heaven. According to the Bible, they were living a beautiful existence until Lucifer—that notorious archangel—persuaded many in their ranks into turning against God—their creator. Was this just another mistake by a jealous personality. Does this seem similar to what had eventually happened to Adam?
How does this conflict, downfall, and this final resolution of the angel’s existence—an event related to a different set of beings—relevant to us? Why did God make reference to this in his revelations to the prophets?
In plain and simple language, was it his destiny, and hardly anything Adam could have done to avert this precipitous downfall?
Answering the question of Adam’s failing seems only to generate its own relatable questions. Like; was God unaware that Adam was going to sin? This is the Hebrew God we are talking about; who happens to know all things, can do all things, and is the creator of the universe we live in. Did he not foresee Adam’s impending downfall? If God did; did he permit it? Or, if there was no way possible for him to have known this was going to happen, how can he then claim omnipotence?
Other—seemingly almost unavoidable—questions comes into view. For example; was God sad that he had created Adam? And if he was, should we still be viewing him as genuinely omnipotent? Shouldn’t God know he was going to be sad? And if he knew; why did he not make the necessary modifications to the prototype Adam, so he could have avoided the failure he was destined to become. Or, were there other choices that Adam could have made—choices more consistent with what God may have actually wanted? How does the free-will concept tries to explain all of this?
What is free-will? And why is it so important to us?
Grasping the free-will concept is of paramount significance if we are to truly understand our Creator and our own intrinsic behavior. Demanding its own time and space, we will delve into this subject matter in the coming weeks.
Believing and trusting in a divine Creator requires that he must be logically plausible, consistent, proven or observably all powerful, and provide sufficient evidence of his existence—that he is somewhere out there. There should be reasonable explanations for all things he does, without the need for, or the help of a theodicy.
All these many little questions we’ve asked, leads to one. Was the creation of Adam flawed? If it was; who made the mistake? Was it Adam or the Creator, himself? These are the questions atheists, agnostics, Christian believers, and many others are all asking without the answers they seek.
Let’s examine them one at a time and see what we’ll find.
If Adam had been able to take it all back; would he?
The biblical account suggests that he would have. He was repentant and mourned his loss of paradise.
Without Adam’s mistake; what would have happened to the human race—to you and me?
All things created; God meant them to be. He is omnipotent—perfect in all his ways. To view him as mistaken is purely from the human perspective—as is too often done in many Christendom interpretations—resulting in many erroneous contradictions. Only after he had lost what he had, did Adam come to truly appreciate what he may have been taking for granted. But now he had proof of a perfect life—an existence he’d had—that was genuinely worth fighting to regain. And not just for him; but for all his descendants. Adam was meant to first experience the beautiful state of existence he possessed while he was in the Garden of Eden, so he and his descendants would always know what they would be fighting for. They would be required to earn it, and later God would send us the Christ to reawaken and reinforce his great promise. Without Adam’s failure, some other challenging parameter would have been required for us to prove ourselves as deserving of the eternal life promise.
Next time, we will answer the outstanding questions, and conclude the discussion on this topic.
~The Gift of God is Eternal Life~
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