Some verses will show us that "speculation" doesn't line up with Scripture.
The "What if's" just don't jive.
Ephesians 1:4
just as He chose us in Him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
1 Peter 1:20
He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you
( The Saviour was in place before there was a Sinner )
Christ bought back FAR more than Adam ever lost. You and I didn't have any choice but to be born and end up here as sinners with 3 strikes against us. However God has asked us if we would like to be His Son's!!!
John 1:12
But as many as received Him,
to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Who are those who haven't received Him as Saviour and no not Believe in " His Name "?
1 John 3:10
In this the children of God and the
children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
Ephesians 5:8
For
you were once darkness( Before conversion), but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ( After )
Ephesians 2:3
among whom also
we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and
were by nature children of wrath,
just as the others.
God didn't want Robots or Toys so He gave us our free will. Like any love relationship it must be 2 sided. God didn't make us just to be Gardeners and Zoo Keepers.
He made us to be in a Love relationship with Him. The 10 Commandents reveal the Holiness of God and our sinfulness. They show us just how huge that gap is between us and our Creator and that of our own accord we could never bridge that gap. Thank God for His way of removing that gap so that sinful people like you and I can Love and Worship Him and have a personal relationship.
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We love Him because He first loved us.
Rom 5
6 For
when we were still without strength, in due time
Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But
God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then,
having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
The Blessings that Christ imparted on those who Believe were far more than Adam ever dreamed of.
Entering Heaven,Judging Angels,Ruling with Him,new Eternal Bodies and on and on.
When Jesus Ascended back to Heaven He entered in a Glorified Physical body.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and
one Mediator between God and men,
the Man Christ Jesus,
( The Perfect Mediator who can represent both Parties fairly God/Man since He is both God and man. )
One day EVERY Believer will be just like Him!!!
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but
we know that when He is revealed,
we shall be like Him,
for we shall see Him as He is.
BB:happyheart::heartbeat::happyheart:
Thanks for the responses to my question
When we go back to the account in Genesis where God said
And God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was extremely good.
Thus, the evening and the morning: Day Six.
Then he proceeded to put man on the earth. Now just regarding that point when God said
26 Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the flying creatures of the heavens,
and over the beasts, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that moves on the earth.
If Adam and Eve had not sinned and
continued to have perfect children who would have populated the Earth
what would they all be doing? Lying around eating fruit from the trees?
Naming the animals, having dominion over them.
I am sure that there must be some other reason for God creating
humans than just to poplate the earth and that's all.
Or would all of then have necessarily remained perfect?
What would have happened if, somewhere down the line, Satan had managed to corrupt some of the children of Adam and Eve.
How would that situation have been dealt with?
Interestingly in Matt 19:28
And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that in the regeneration
or
In the age when all things are renewed,
So Jesus spoke of a time when there would be a re... doing something again.
So what does this mean when put together with the scripture in Rev 21:5?
Is this to mean a return to the situation Adam and Eve were in?
I don't think so. There must be a further step, a stage that Adam and Eve +
their children would have been in if all of then had remained perfect.
What that situation is, where "all things are made new" I really don't
have much idea.
But it must be a situation that goes beyond what Adam and Eve had.
Can we imagine what God purposes to unleash on humankind when it becomes possible to regenerate or renew. one dictionary definition says renew means to
to replace something that is old or damaged
So it implies that what was existing before will be replaced with something
new not just patched up. or brought back to the previous original condition.
How that translates in to practical application remains to be seen but it
must be something that at this time is beyond our comprehension.
But we can speculate.