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God's Purpose's in
the Fall and Redemption of Man
What
is the purpose in living? Is it merely to be born, try to enjoy the
brief span of time that we have, bear children, grow old, and then
die? Are we simply biological creatures who evolved from some
primordial soup? If that is all life is, and if that is all we are,
then life is meaningless. While some people who embrace such notions
about mankind also try to attach some higher meaning to life, there
can be none; because if those theories were true, then what we are and what we will become
are simply the result of
the forces of nature, mutation, and survival of the fittest.
Although some humanists may protest, saying that mankind itself has
evolved into higher values to life, we have certainly failed to
create any kind of utopia. The problems we face as humans are not
getting any better, only worse. While life for some people might
seem to be happy and fulfilling, for the majority of humans it is
not.
What is,
therefore, the alternative view of life? It is that there is a Creator God
who made this world for a purpose. It is that He made man a special creation and
endowed him with god-like qualities. It is that man is more than just an
animal driven by a will to exist—man has a purpose, and man has a
destiny. While many would say that such beliefs are only the “opiate of
the masses,” the evidence belies such statements. Indeed, the very
existence of such an orderly universe, such an intricate design in
nature, such a wonderment to be seen in the human body and mind—all
proclaim that there must be a Creator. Furthermore, the fact that there
is in the psychic of mankind a god-consciousness; and the
testimony of countless human beings about an experience with a higher
power—attest to the existence of such a being.
If then,
we accept that there is a God, and that He created this world, and man as
its inhabitant—why do we see such monumental suffering and problems? Did
God create this universe imperfectly? Did His purpose and design
somehow go awry? To repudiate such statements we must examine the
only sustainable record we have of creation and the events that
followed—the Bible. In its pages we will find not only the cause of
mankind’s problems, but what God has done, and is continuing to do, to
solve our dilemmas. In particular, we will examine in the treatise to
follow, the account of what took place in the Garden of Eden; and we
will also look at those events that happened four-thousand years later
concerning the Gospel—the life and death of Jesus Christ. In the first
account we will discover the fall of mankind, in the second we
will see the redemption of mankind. Furthermore, in both
accounts, we will see that the Creator had, and always has had, a
purpose and plan in everything that took place.
Please click on the following link.
The Garden and The Gospel
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