For Believer's Only: Was Man A Mistake of God?

While I believe God should be a part of everything we do, I don't always give the heavenly response to earthly problems that we discuss.

Hell, I don't even resist the temptation of  curse words from time to time, but I love God deeply.  Moreover, I thank him as often as I remember for his gift of Grace that we call Jesus Christ.  In fact, in light of this post being shared days away from Christmas, I encourage anyone who hasn't unwrapped the gift of Grace to take a moment, read John 3:16, forgive yourself for .....whatever, and join us back here when you are done......we'll wait for you.

You back?  (Thank the Lord for Jesus)

The headline is the question. Did God know that man would mess things up this bad or are we an experiment gone awry?  More specifically, lets explore the beginning of the Christian bible.  The story of Adam and Eve talks of the second sin or sin entering into the earth.  Eve could have finished that whole fruit and sin would not have had free reign.  Only when Adam disobeyed was sin set free.  Yet, this story begs a couple of obvious questions.

Why was the tree in the garden in the first place?  I hear the voices say, free will.  Well, yeah!  But why was the tree placed there if God did not expect that we would fail.

This goes even further.  Why was the serpent who tempted Eve given free reign near holy ground?  Was God oblivious to the whispering of this evil spirit?  This goes further still.  When did this spirit of evil arrive on earth?  Before Adam was created or after?  Either way, God sent the tempter or sent us to the tempter (I believe in the latter).

At this point you have to either see the glory of the Lord at work or you will reconsider Atheism.  Some people that I have posed these questions to choose to assume that God messed up and did not expect us to fail as we did. When you are mad at God, this is an easy view to take.  I've come to believe otherwise.

God did not make a mistake on us and he knew very well that we would fail and sin would be given free reign on earth through the hearts and behaviors of man.  In fact, that was the only way sin ever could have entered  the earth. Through the prophecy of Isaiah we learn that Lucifer, who was one of God's beloved angels, was cast to the "darkness that was upon the face of the deep" and then God brings the light and the rest of the creation story.


At this point, this debate usually begins to remind me of a line from Lauren Hill and the Fugee's.  You might win some, but you just lost one; so I will close on this thought.  We are considered the bride of Christ because our relationship represents the completion of God's army against sin.   We carry a dual role in the sin game because we are the one's who set it loose, the one's who give it life, and the one's sent to destroy it. We should always remember that Lucifer committed and thus created the first sin in heaven, which is why he
is the father of sin.  However, we should also remember that Christ came to join YOU, to complete God's army and finish the war against sin.

When you think about humanity and you start to lose hope, keep in mind that sin is not our mess, it is simply our mission.