Yet He foreknew it would be as it was;
For Him to remain just, Man’s free will had
To choose sin for himself, and he still does!
God straightway came and confronted the three:
The Man, the Woman, and the serpent, too,
For it had housed Satan and willingly,
Inducing the Pair God’s command eschew!
All were assigned stiff penalties to bear:
The Garden was lost to them forever;
Death must they and all their descendants share!
Adam’s sin seemed God’s great plan to sever!
Is this the end of His plan for the world,
To dwell with men, if all to Hell are hurled?
Scripture Quoted: Genesis 3:14-19 (NIV)
“So the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, 'Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.' "
“To the woman he said, ‘I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’ “
“To Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to your wife, and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, You must not eat of it, Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.' "
What drastic changes came to the lives of Adam and Eve, and to their destiny, as well as to progeny, the whole human race, as a result of their disobedience to God! Those changes apply to you and me and our descendants, too! Because of this first sin, God, to keep His word and remain just, was obliged to issue strict judgment upon all men and women, including physical death and condemnation to Hell for eternal afterlife! Hell is the place of torment prepared for Satan and the fallen angels; it is a burning lake of fire. Also, the earth was cursed by God; henceforth there was no easy living in a Garden full of fresh fruit; instead the fields had to be worked by man to produce his own food without rain and prone to produce briars and thistles. Animals became dangerous to each other and to Man. These conditions continue to this day, except rain was added by God later after a catastrophic deluge.
Why did God create the universe, angels, earth, and man? Because He desired creatures in His image, men and women, that were sinless and, of their own free wills while living here on earth, chose to live as taught by His word—the Bible—to dwell with Him, adopted into His family, in an eternal after life. Since Adam was the “federal head” of the whole human race, Adam’s sin was imputed to every one of Adam’s descendants. Therefore no one who ever lived could qualify to be adopted by God, for in His sight all were sinners, and all God’s preparatory work up to this point would be useless, a waste of His time and power. His plan was ended with the first man of the new creatures! Or was it?
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
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