Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Building Block 1 : God's Purpose

I have started thinking about something recently. I intend to begin exploring it here. I think to understand it correctly I need to begin with some basic stuff. I need to clear away the brush so I can see what’s going on more clearly. So, the next couple of posts will be this basic stuff. (Like there is a million people out there reading any of this already.)

Once upon a time, God created the world. It was a perfect paradise. No sickness. No pain. No lack. And God put people in the world. He intended to have a love relationship with them.

Then, an enemy crept in. He deceived the inhabitants of the world and convinced them to disobey God.

There has been a lot of fallout from this one act. Because people rebelled:

  • The relationship between God and man is destroyed.
  • Man is condemned for his part.
  • Disobedience seems to get locked into man’s DNA.
  • Man fell into an unintentional agreement with the enemy, giving him a hold over them.
  • The enemy becomes the de facto ruler of the world.
  • Man is alienated from God, other men, himself and nature.
  • All the problems in the world result from the ever-growing ripple effects of this deed.

God’s creation has been warped to its core. And God thinks that it is wrong for the world to be this way. So, He begins executing a plan that will restore the world to the way He created it to be, reverse all the “fallout” and bring it back as part of His kingdom.

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