[Seven_0]

God never intended men and women to fall out of fellowship with him. He never intended that men should “leave the garden” but to grow and mature as a species under his guidance, to fully self actualize as a race living as matter and spirit.

God had a plan from the beginning, and he intended for man to have the knowledge of good and evil. If he had wanted man to live forever in the garden he could have told him to eat of the tree of life. That would have been a law that would have given life and verily righteousness could have been by the law. That was not part of God's plan.

Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

From the beginning God intended that Christ would go to the cross. He knew what Adam would do. How do we understand the mystery of iniquity? The desire to sin is sin.

Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Here Eve reveals the condition of her heart. Note that Eve’s nature came from Adam before they ate the fruit and their eyes were opened. In Adam all die even Eve. If you want to predict God’s intent, look first at what happened and not what you think should have happened

[mdmathis6]

I have to disagree. God does not tempt nor did he intend to set man up to fail!(However the Bible does say God makes the evil and the good(Isaiah 45:7). That is what you are saying. God lives across time and even as he created life and had to deal with Satan’s rebellion, he was already acting to provide a savior to restore those who would worship him in spirit and in truth. We have free will but live in a temporal bubble where time passes and matter eventually will decay until God remakes it.

He’s already remade it...he’s been there and gone already!! What is going on now is the “mop up action”. God seeks a people who will worship God in Spirit and in truth. THAT WAS ALWAYS HIS INTENT! He has created “sons of God and it doesn’t yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear, we will be like HIM for we shall see him as he is!{1 JOhn 3:2) That is what he intended for us from the beginning and no power of Satan will keep God from bringing that about. The heel was bruised...but now watch the heel crush the head of the serpent!!

Satan should not have bothered to mess with us, for the Word made flesh entered our universe to fight Satan on his ground and it was so much more worse for Satan as a result! The Living Word made flesh...how the devils must have screamed in rage! They never saw it coming, the crucifiction(check)...and to have the Word made flesh rise from the grave(mate!)...a multimegaton spiritual detonation!

Satan still plots....but alas for him and wonderful for the saved..The Word made Flesh is coming again, this time to crush the head of the Serpent for good!