Did the first
humans malfunction? Was
there a flaw in their original
design? God was the Designer;
is God to blame? Not according
to Christendom. Is He at least
responsible? Not according to
Christendom. But why not?
Now listen carefully. Here is
wisdom beyond its years. When
a scientist creates an
experiment or machine that
malfunctions, is he responsible
for the malfunction? Yes. Does
he hold the experiment or
machine responsible? No. Does
he hold God responsible? No.
Okay.
Now then, according to
Christendom, when God
creates an experiment or
machine that malfunctions, is
He responsible for the
malfunction? No. Does He hold
the experiment or machine
responsible? Yes. Does He hold
man responsible? Yes. See the
wisdom?
I have just shown you one
reason why God calls the
WISDOM of this world
STUPIDITY!
"For the wisdom of this
world is foolishness
[Greek: stupidity] with
God. For it is written,
He takes the wise in
their own craftiness" (I
Cor. 3:19).
First, Christendom assumes that
God’s creation of humans
malfunctioned -- it did NOT!
Second, they assume that God
is not responsible and does not
take responsibility -- He DOES!
One unscriptural assumption
added to another unscriptural
assumption does not equal a
Bible Truth! If a carnal-minded human can
take responsibility for an
invention that malfunctions, I
submit that God is bigger and
more responsible than puny
man. Be it known to all that
God takes full responsibility for
His creation, and absolutely
nothing in His creation is
malfunctioning. Here’s the
proof:
If a thousand Christians were
given the assignment to write
an essay describing the world
as it was after God completed
it, but before man sinned, I am
positive that we would get one
thousand essays describing the
unbelievable beauty, harmony,
and perfection of all creation
including man and beast.
However, would such essays be
based on the Scriptures? Let’s
look at a little understood
Scripture.
"For the creature [and/
or creation itself] was
MADE subject to
VANITY NOT
WILLINGLY [not by man's will], but by
reason of Him [that’s
God] Who HATH
SUBJECTED the same in
hope. Because the
creature itself also
shall be delivered from
the BONDAGE OF
CORRUPTION into the
glorious liberty of the
children of God. For we
know that the WHOLE
CREATION groans and
travails IN PAIN until
NOW" (Rom. 8:20-22)!
Wow! Did you know that
Scripture is in the Bible? Have
you ever meditated at length on
its meaning? This one Scripture
does much damage to Christian
doctrine. From a strictly carnal-
minded approach, this Scripture
is devastating. Let’s see what
these words entail from
Strong’s GREEK DICTIONARY OF
THE NEW TESTAMENT:
VANITY: empty,
profitless, vain,
transientness [temporary]
, depravity [wickedness].
BONDAGE: slavery,
subjection, subserviency.
CORRUPTION: shrivel,
wither, spoil, ruin,
deprave, defile, destroy,
decay, perish
GROAN: moan, calamity,
be in straits, murmur,
grief, grudge, anguish.
TRAVAIL: pangs, to pain
together, travail as in
birth. PAIN: anguish, toil for
daily subsistence,
starving.
The force of these verses in
Rom. 8:20-22 is inescapable. It
was God HIMSELF Who
subjected the whole creation to
vanity, and He didn’t ask
anyone’s permission before He
did it. And it is only God
Himself Who will deliver the
whole creation from the
bondage of corruption, pain,
and suffering. Make no mistake
about it: God is the Creator of
evil [Isa 45:6-7], and He takes full
responsibility for the
deliverance from the
consequences of all the evils
that have caused the creation
to "groan and travail in PAIN
until NOW" as Paul describes.
God takes responsibility for the
temporary failures of creation
so that He can take all the
credit and glory for its
successes.
And most of the glory that God
will receive is from the glory
that He gives to all mankind. "But with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a
lamb without blemish
and without spot: Who
verily was
FOREORDAINED BEFORE
THE FOUNDATION OF
THE WORLD, but was
manifested in these
last times for you" (I
Pet. 1:19-20).
"And all that dwell
upon the earth shall
worship him, whose
names are not written
in the book of life of
the Lamb [Christ] slain
from the FOUNDATION
OF THE WORLD" (Rev.
13:.
Is anyone so naive and blind as
to believe that God had
prepared a Lamb, a Sacrifice,
His SON, to be slain for the sins
of the world at a time when
theologians would have us
believe God didn’t even KNOW
there was shortly coming such
a thing as SIN? God knew; God
is smart! It was God Who
created the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. It
was God Who placed it right in
the middle of the garden to
catch Eve’s eye. It was God
Who made the tree particularly
attractive and desirable. It was
God who placed in the humans
the desires and passions that
would CAUSE them to partake
of the forbidden fruit. It was
God who placed Satan the
serpent in the garden to tempt
Eve ]Gen 3:1] and fill her head with the
glories of enlightenment. It was
God Who had ALREADY made
preparation for their salvation
through the slain Lamb of GOD [1Cor 15:22]
Only ignorant and foolish
theologians would ever charge
God of being ignorant of the
conduct and behavior of His
own creation. It was not the
temptation or deception
entering INTO Eve that caused
her to sin and bring separation
from her Creator and God. It
was what was already in her
that caused her to sin. Proof:
"For out of the heart
proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts,
false witness,
blasphemies" (Mat.
15:19).
Notice it: "And when the
woman saw [in her
heart] that the tree was
good for food, and that
it was pleasant to the
eye [in her heart], and a
tree to be desired [in
her heart] to make one
wise [an idol of the heart]
, she took [’For out of
the heart proceed ...
thefts...’] of the fruit
thereof, and did
eat" (Gen. 3:6).
Did you notice that last phrase
"...and did eat"? It was not the
"eating" of the fruit that made
her a sinner -- she had
ALREADY sinned by looking,
lusting, and fantasizing about
her potential wisdom. It was
AFTER she sinned that she "did
eat."
The good news is that all of our
suffering is for a grand purpose
and will ultimately bring huge
rewards. Just two verses before,
Paul tells us how God subjected
the whole creation to these
many evils and he gives us this
comforting thought:
"For I reckon that the
sufferings of this
present time [’groaning
and travailing in pain
together until now’ Ver
22] are not worthy to
be compared with the
GLORY which shall be
revealed in US" (Ver. 18)
. Read and meditate on that verse a dozen time and u will surely be comforted. SHALOM.