Now, we could blame this whole picture on the world on Adam and Eve, but frankly, given the same choice—surrendering to God’s ethic of love or being selfish—we often make the same choice. So we can’t blame anyone else. And every time someone acts for themselves instead of God, that person is handed over to the realm of Death. Paul puts it succinctly: “The wages of sin is Death.”
And we see Death everywhere. In our broken relationships, in our hatred against other races or nations, in our anger against the poor, in our creation of more efficient weapons, in our abortion statistics, in our destruction of animal species, in our wars. Death is way more in charge of humanity than God.
But God hasn’t given up on humans. He doesn’t hate them or want to kill them. In fact, God spends a lot of time offering humanity another option. If humans would give up on their ways of Death and selfishness and surrender themselves completely to God, then God will accept them. He will forget about the past and take them back to the time before the Tree. Not the paradise, but allow us to have true knowledge of good and evil, which is only found in Him. He will lead us in the way of love. If only we would surrender to Him.
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