God’s strategy falls into two parts. The first part deals with satisfying God’s holiness. Holiness is a large integral part of God’s nature. If God ceases to be holy, he ceases to be God.
Holiness is an uncompromising separation and resistance to sin. When man rebelled, he broke his allegiance with God, and now they were separated. Because of his holy nature, God could not have a relationship with man, which was part of God’s purpose for creating man. Man had broken the possibility for experiencing a love relationship with the Creator of the Universe. Now, God looked for a way to overcome this separation and renew the relationship with man, without compromising his holiness.
God’s law of justice meant that man needed to satisfy God’s requirement. He was the rebellious one. But, man broke a relationship he was not big enough to fix. Only God was big enough. So, God became a man. And God became the sacrifice that satisfied God’s holiness.
Now, there was a bridge between God and man. There was now a possibility of renewing the relationship between God and mankind. Crossing the bridge meant man going to God, restoring the original relationship – Creator and created, King and subject, Father and son.
Since, each person was given the opportunity to cross this bridge, and the freedom to choose to cross or not, the second part of the strategy must deal with showing people that crossing the bridge was worthwhile, advantageous and the right decision to make.
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