The Great Plan: Part 3
The Plan from the Very Beginning
I believe that from the very beginning of creation it was all a part of God’s plan for the woman to be subject to the man and her desire was to be to him. Also a part of the plan was for man to have to work all of his life and then at the end of life to die.
If man didn’t die and he just kept on multiplying, the Earth would have been overpopulated thousands of years ago. In fact, all of nature is involved in a natural cycle of birth, life and death. Wouldn’t it stand to reason then that man, being a part of nature, would follow the same path?
The Necessity of the Knowlege of Good and Evil: Man’s conscience
If man didn’t have the knowledge of right or wrong, there would be no need for laws nor any absolutes established for what was right or wrong. If God knew that man wouldn’t disobey him there would be no reason at all for the tree of the knowlege of good and evil.
It was obviously part of God’s plan from the very beginning: to establish right and wrong even though man had no knowlege of it, because he knew that man would disobey.
God even put the serpent in the garden to tempt the woman so that she would eat of the forbidden fruit. Why else would God have permitted the serpent to be there? That could only have been the reason — that could only have been the role of the serpent. If God hadn’t allowed the serpent there, the woman wouldn’t have been tempted. If the woman hadn’t been tempted, she wouldn’t have disobeyed and eaten of the forbidden fruit, and neither would the man. God’s whole plan would have been defeated.
The whole plan seems to have been from the very beginning that God planned to make rules for man to follow and He gave man the divine knowlege of good and evil and left it up to man to choose for himself whether he would obey or not. God made the rules, knowing that Adam and Eve would break them, then let them break the very rules that God had laid down. By letting them disobey the rules and eat from the tree of knowlege of good and evil, they truely became like God, knowing the difference between good and evil.
“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil“
This is the main thing that makes man different from all the rest of the creatures that God created: his conscience. Animals don’t have a conscience. God purposely gave man a conscience by putting the tree of the knowlege of good and evil in the garden, having the serpent tempt the woman, and letting them eat of the tree. At least this is what the story tells us.
Man Becomes as God
Yes, they did disobey. But it was all a part of God’s plan so that they would become as one of God and His Son. That’s exactly what He said: “Behold, man is become as one of us to know good and evil.” Now man is complete in the image of God in that he knows the difference between good and evil — just like us, and is able to consciously choose between what God establishes as right or wrong.
The whole plan from the beginning was to make man in God’s image, give him a conscience like God and make man one with God. This was even in Jesus’s prayer.
Joh 17:21 that they may be all one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
