The Fall
The worst sin that any living souls can commit is the refusal to repent of their sins to God. God will never forgive that sin. Matthew 12:31-32. That sin becomes totally evil and adheres to spiritual death which God will separate from every living soul within the regions of the dead and cast into the lake of fire in the end of the world. Revelation 20:15. This refusal will cause God to have to judge these living souls, still filthy with sin and evil, to one of the three regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. But God will still love these living souls, and He will provide a means whereby every one of them will choose to repent and become reconciled with God. Revelation 5:11-14. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate His repentant living souls from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. Every type of Old Testament sacrifice had a symbolic meaning. The sin offering symbolized salvation by grace, but Exodus 29:14 clearly teaches that the burnt offering was also a type of sin offering. Moses prophesied in Deuteronomy 32:22 that God's consuming fire will burn into hell in the end of the world to destroy all evil. But God has also promised in Revelation 20:5 that He will resurrect His living souls, and in Revelation 21:5 that He will recreate everything that He originally created.
Because all life depends on that which grows from the ground, then all of God's creations became partly evil because they absorbed evil from the cursed ground. But the day will come when God will use His consuming fire to burn up the heavens and the earth, purge all taints of evil from them, and recreate them to be wholly righteous. This recreation must include the living souls of all mankind raised from their graves because God has promised in Revelation 21:5: "Behold, I make all things new." God created all things, including the living souls of all mankind. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized God's power to consume all evil by the use of His consuming fire, separate His repentant living souls from that dead evil, and cast all spiritual deaths into the lake of fire forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Deuteronomy 32:22; Leviticus 4:31; Revelation 20:11-15; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:5; Romans 8:18-23.
God did not curse Adam and Eve because He still loved their living souls that He had created and put into them. God cursed the Devil because he had ruined the innocence of Adam and Eve and had injected evil into their beings which caused them to sin. God prophesied to the Devil and to Adam and Eve that one day in the future He would use a seed of the woman only to bring a Savior of humanity into the world. The Devil would be able to use evil to cause that Savior to suffer, but that Savior would crush the head of the Devil and purge all evil from all of His creations. God would not use the seed of the man because his seed coupled with the seed of the woman transmits evil from one generation to the next. But God could use an innocent virgin coupled with a seed from the Holy Spirit to bring Himself into the world as His sinless Son who would be the Lamb of God who would take away all sin and evil from the world. Matthew 1:20-25; Luke 1:26-35; John 1:29; John 12:47; Hebrews 2:14-15; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:21-22; I Corinthians 15:26. Living humans are created by God. They are not the work of the Devil. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 30:6.
God could no longer allow Adam and Eve to remain in their blissful garden. God had to cast them out into the ruined world where they would have to combat sin and evil through pain and labor. They would suffer for their sins, but only temporarily. God Himself would come to earth to rescue them and all mankind from the danger of eternal death. Christ would take that eternal death upon Himself on a cruel cross. Hebrews 2:9.
God allowed Adam and Eve and the rest of humanity to suffer because of evil in order to test His Love for His creations. God could not summarily abolish evil from His universe because that would allow doubt about His Love to remain, and wherever there is doubt there exists the likelihood that evil will emerge again and again, probably forever. God had to devise a plan to purge sin and evil from His creations once and for all time. God had to prove that His gift of free will could never be used by the Devil to annul any part of His creations no matter how much it had to suffer. But God has promised that He will make a short work on the earth. Romans 9:28.
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