They disobeyed God and at the fruit. They brought sin, misery and death into the world. Is it possible for them to be saved? I've asked this question to people before and soem say they probably are but others won't really say either way. So I'll put it to the forum.
Did you ever consider what a person would be like, emotionally and mentally, without a conscience?
If you slugged me on the nose and good and evil was absent from your brain, who would care?
Dogs don't know the difference. Neither do Bonobo monkeys.
Ants get along well without it, a knowledge of good and evil.
I guess God was looking for something other than ants, dogs and drones when He wisely placed, dead smack in the center of Eden, a tree that had what mankind needed to become sons and daughters instead of mindless ants and instinctive animals.
Becoming a son/daughter of God is no small deal. Not to me anyway.
You may decide for yourself that God is not responsible for man's "fall", but if that were so, then He need not to have provided that beautiful Lamb that was slain from before Adam was even a mudpuppy without a soul. Yet He did so, didn't He.
My God is responsible for it all. He is God. God is God. Do you reply against that and protest against anything He chooses to do? If you do, that to me is insanity. He chose to put the tree there, He chose to make Adam and Eve weak in their flesh, He chose to put us on this course back to Him when He will become All in all.
He chose to have His own Son murdered, planned it out, had to put a devil in a man to get him to be a traitor, and someone is gonna squabble about whether or not God did all these things? That somehow God couldn't possible had a hand in their mistakes?
It doesn't take brilliance to figure this one out, that God will make all alive in Christ, He knows He's responsible and He has done the responsible thing-- He sacrificed His only Begotten Son and ransomed the entire universe thereby.
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