The World and the Word

                                        The Fall

God created a dark universe long before He created light. Genesis 3:2-3. God then created the useful systems of Night and Day for the earth. Genesis 1:5. In Genesis 1:31, God saw that everything He had created was "very good."

God created the good systems called humans in His own image. Genesis 1:27. This meant God created them to have a consciousness of Himself, but He did not give them souls. These humans had to have been a pre-Adamic race because God pronounced them as being "very good" when He commanded them to spread out over the earth. God could not have called Adam and Eve "very good" when He expelled them from the garden because they had been infected with evil.

God created Adam and Eve to possess both spirits and souls. Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:23. God's creation of souls meant that they possessed free will, intelligence, and personality. Free will has to be the basis of intelligence because intelligence reveals possibilities and free will allows one to choose among the ideas within those possibilities in order to invent good systems.

God created Adam and Eve as a means to test His Love for His creations. Lucifer's rebellion had caused a pall of doubt over God's creations. Doubt can be a good system if it leads to faith. Satan sought to completely ruin God's good creations of intelligent humans. Satan sought to cause their souls and spirits to become so vile that they would fall into a state of spiritual death and be separated from God forever. Job 2:9. But God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God intended to prove that His Love can never fail by allowing His intelligent humans to choose to fall into evil which would influence them to sin and put them in danger of eternal, spiritual death, but He would also provide a means through His self-sacrificial Love by which He would cause every one of them to overcome their doubt by their choice to return to faith in Him, some by His grace and all others by His mercy. John 3:16-17; Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:21-24; Proverbs 10:12.

God cursed the Devil and evil itself. Genesis 3:14. God cursed the ground which contains the three regions of death. Genesis 3:17. Revelation 20:13. But God never cursed the living souls and spirits of His special humans whom He loves because He fully intended to rescue every one of them from spiritual death. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26.