How and Why God Deals with Sin

Once evil (sin) entered into God’s creation God had to deal with it. If He let evil run amuck it would ruin His creation. If he destroyed it in an act of raw power in would violate free will and be tyrannical. If he forcibly removed the evil from infected beings it would violate both free will and justice.

So God executed the plan that would stratify both free will and justice while not being tyrannical. The second person of the trinity (Jesus) would come to Earth as a man and die to pay the penalty for our sin such that all who accepted God’s gift of redemption could save from their sin and go to heaven to be with him.

Since God can allow any evil into heaven since it would be ruin heaven, God could remove the evil from the redeemed before they enter in to heaven because they had chosen to be with him and have it removed.

However those that rejected God’s offer of redemption were saying that they did not want to be with God and so God will one day give them what they want to be sent to a place with out God. This place called Hell is the worst place imaginable, with eternal burning. However it is not God’s fault if in giving those who reject salvation what the want if it is not what they expect.

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How Sin Entered God’s Creation.

As states in the previous post sin is essentially another term for evil. When God created both man and angels, God gave both us and them free will. God did want a bunch of robots that just behave them selves because they had no choice. He wanted being that would love, worship, and serve Him of our own free will.

Evil entered God’s creation when the chief angel called Lucifer decided that wanted to be God and Now called Satan he has been causing trouble ever since. Fist he recruited a third of the angels into his rebellion and the enlisted man kind.

When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, He basically gave them one rule. Don’t eat the fruit of one of the trees called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and that violation that rule would bring death. At first glance this may seem rather severe but there are two points that need to be made.

1.      Adam and Eve had little opportunity to sin and by eating that fruit they were rebelling against God as much as they had opportunity to do.

2.      In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve knew good and so when they eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they were deliberately seeking evil.

Some time after God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and Lucifer rebelled Satan approached Eve using a snake. He successfully got her to eat the fruit of the trees called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and then used her to get Adam to eat it.

This is how evil came into the world and once it was present God had to deal with it.

What is Sin.

Sin is disobedience to God. This is not just a list of do’s and don’ts it is a heart attitude. That does not mean that there are not specific acts that are sinful, the Bible makes it clear that there are sinful acts but there are acts God has specifically told us not to do. Sin however is in essence of evil, and both the heart attitude and actions are evil. Even those sinful acts often considered small or not so bad are evil on a small scale but still evil.