God tested His Love through His creation of human beings. God placed them in a blissful garden in a state of innocence, but He also gave them a fleshly nature. They could choose to eat of the tree of life and gain immortality, eventually leave their fleshly nature behind with physical death, and rise to live with God in spiritual bodies forever. In that case, God's Love would pass His test. In Genesis 3:22, God cast Adam and Eve out of the garden to protect them from eating of the tree of life in their sinful condition which would have been a horrible curse to them. But this fact also proves that God did not create Adam and Eve to be immortal, for if He had, they would have already been in this cursed state the moment they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They had to eat of the tree of life in order to gain immortality.
In the other case, Adam and Eve could yield to their fleshly nature and eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and believe that they would become powerful, immortal gods who would possess the right to have excessive pride and pleasures like those of the Devil's. The Devil tempted Eve with his own ambitions. The choice was theirs. God had given them free will. The Devil wagered that God had made a mistake in giving humans free will. If the Devil could only get Adam and Eve to disobey God, then he could introduce all of the horrors of sin into the history of mankind, cause the eternal ruin of God's creation and thereby prove that God's Love was not all-powerful, and thus fulfill his plan to murder God.
But what the Devil had not counted on was that God would allow the Devil to directly attempt to murder Him by allowing Himself to be nailed to a cruel cross. On that cross, God would take all of the filth and horrors of sin on Himself and neutralize the Devil's plan to ruin man forever by taking that eternal ruination on Himself in man's place. Then after having accomplished that task, Christ would rise triumphant from the grave to prove that God's Love is all-powerful and can never be ruined. In that case, God's Love would pass His test. Genesis 3:15; John 19:30; I Corinthians 15:16-17. God had outwitted the Devil by implementing a plan to prove that His Love is all-powerful no matter what Adam and Eve decided.
The life that God gave to Adam and Eve was good and holy. The fleshly nature He gave them was also good because they could express it in creative ways like in making love or enjoying a tasty meal. God paired Adam and Eve in marriage. They did not need a marriage ceremony. When Adam and Eve sinned, they misused their fleshly nature.
The misuse of God's goodness constitutes the source of all sin. When Lucifer rebelled against God, he misused some of the elements of God's goodness to invent false systems called sin. Lucifer never created anything. Only God can create. Lucifer's main sin was excessive pride. God knows how to use the idea of "excess" and the emotion called "pride," both of which He created, in good ways to create good systems. Lucifer simply misused the two good ideas of "excess" and "pride" to invent a false system called "excessive pride" which is sinful and destructive. Isaiah 14:12-15.
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