You didn’t choose to be born imperfect, or even to be conceived or born at all. You are the product of someone else’s choice, a mom and dad, and the will of God. (Psalms 139) But now you do have a choice, freewill, to repent and believe in the good news, or not. But God ultimately wins and has won, once for all time!
Choosing to love and worship God is a hard choice because we can’t see him. However, we can see His love through other people, as well as through the heavens (Psalms 19) and through the works of His hands.
Adam is the only man created without sin, except for Jesus Christ. We know the story in Genesis ch.3 regarding creation and the fall of man and the fall out from there. One of the most frequently asked questions about all of this is:
Did God intend for that to happen from the beginning or was it simply a matter of freewill and the propensity of man to rebel against God and commit sin?
Was it intentional on God’s part? Was this some sort of test of the prototype of mankind?
The answers to these deep probing questions have never been answered by religion or by any particular man, except for in Jesus Christ the second Adam (Romans 5). In Christ we have redemption and reconciliation.
I suspect that you may have heard all of this, but still question, or perhaps misunderstand God’s motives and purpose in allowing things to go the way they did in the garden of Eden, with that slippery serpent filled with deception and trickery and the fall of man, and the first promise and prophecy of redemption, grace and forgiveness in Genesis ch 3.
Repent and believe in the good news, aka the Gospel. Is it a blind faith? Or is it a deeper, heart probing issue between God and man, on a personal, one on one, Mano e Mano level?
One thing we can know and start with is the written word of God as recorded in the Bible, the holy scriptures, inspired by God, written by men as God has appointed.
The end of the matter, for me anyway, is just that; God’s word, through which we come to know the true, eternal Word of God, who took on flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1-14). True faith is not a blind faith, but the inner willingness to believe in a God we cannot see with our eyes, but like so many people in the Bible, we’ve experienced His grace, mercy and blessings on the inside of our hearts, at the core of our being.
The deep, probing questions that many of us ask are answered in Christ. But there are still great mysteries that remain .
One of my favorite verses in the Bible sums it up:
Deuteronomy 29:29 NLT
[29] “The Lord our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.
https://bible.com/bible/116/deu.29.29.NLT
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