Kobojunkie:
1. What is sin? It is simply a choice made in disobedience of God's teachings and commandments.

2. Temptation refers to a combination of options , good and evil combined presented to you in order to help you decide where your heart lies as far as God's teachings and commandments.

So whenever you see that you are tempted, note that you are presented both good and evil options from which you are expected to choose.

GOOD lure + EVIL lure === Temptation

You are never my tempted by with an Evil lure, there is also always the good or lesser evil, no matter how strong the one side appears to you to be.

3. Jesus Christ came knowing He would need to die on the cross. God fore knew and planned the death of Jesus Christ. God allowed the death, which was planned to go on without stopping it. Ofcourse God does not do evil but it was not the devil that put Jesus Christ on that cross on that day.

God planned that Jesus would come and redeem man because man fell into temptation and fell in the garden of Eden. Had man not fell into sin, Jesus woukd never have had to come and die. So if you think of Jesus death in that direction, you will see that it was even man's disobedience that made it necessary for Jesus to come and die. It was not as if God woke up one day and felt Jesus should just die.

An option B was already in place since God created man and once option A which was for man to live without sin forever failed, option B was activated. Jesus dying is an option B occasioned by man's disobedience - A consequence of man's sin.

tete7000:

God planned that Jesus would come and redeem man because man fell into temptation and fell in the garden of Eden. Had man not fell into sin, Jesus woukd never have had to come and die. So if you think of Jesus death in that direction, you will see that it was even man's disobedience that made nit necessary for Jesus to come and die. It was not as if God woke up one day and felt Jesus should just die.

An option B was already in place since God created man and once option A which was for man to live without sin forever failed, option B was activated. Jesus dying is an option B occasioned by man's disobedience - A consequence of man's sin.

I can see how, to us, it would seem as though option B came after the failure of option A. But have you ever considered that the failure of option A may have instead been an expected outcome and planned for, hence option B?

As for the death of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ mission on earth required that He die. There was no way for Him to fulfill any of what He came down to do and accomplish without His death registering at the end of His mission. Also, Jesus Christ's death piggybacked was piggybacked on the long history of the Levites' killings of God's prophets. So it was a planned death- planned from before time itself as it all had to fall into place.

Kobojunkie:
I can see how, to us, it would seem as though option B came after the failure of option A. But have you ever considered that the failure of option A may have instead been an expected outcome and planned for, hence option B?

As for the death of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ mission on earth required that He die. There was no way for Him to fulfill any of what He came down to do and accomplish without His death registering at the end of His mission. Also, Jesus Christ's death piggybacked was piggybacked on the long history of the Levites' killings of God's prophets. So it was a planned death- planned from before time itself as it all had to fall into place.

If you say option A is an expected outcome, you Implied God is indirectly responsible for man's sin because he left man weak without a will to resist. In other words, he created man a robot. So rather than say it was an expected outcome, say it is a probable outcome and hence the need for option B. If God created man destined to fall, what right or justification does he have to judge him. Would you rather say God is unjust?

tete7000:

If you say option A is an expected outcome, you Implied God is indirectly responsible for man's sin because he left man weak without a will to resist. In other words, he created mqn a robot. So rather than say it was an expected outcome, say it is a probable outcome and hence the need for option B. If God created man destined to fall, what right or justification does he have to judge him. Would you rather say God is unjust?

1. I don't see how you could arrived at your conclusion at all. Man was definitely not made a robot...He was created and groomed in God's own garden with the ability to make right and wrong choices from the point of creation. It was not until the time for man to be tested that the evil factor, the serpent was introduced to provide the balance that is the lures of temptation - good and evil lures - and we know man made the conscience choice to disobey God at that point. God did not make man do what man did... God simply gave man a choice and man chose to elevate his will and ego above God at that moment.

It presents itself a case of an expected outcome because the one who benefited the most from that was God too... He used the opportunity to harvest for Himself a "People of God" and the "Sons of God" through the seeds of Abraham, a man, who made right decisions instead of wrong one like Adam before him.