The Knowledge of Good And Evil, The Cross, and Freewill - Why God's Plan Is the Way It Is

Sometimes the story of the bible can leave us dumbfounded and perplexed. Why did God forbid Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, knowing what would occur? This alone can leave us with many questions, and may even make us think that Christ's sacrifice seems somewhat hard to decipher a bit of a mystery that we quite can't understand.

Understanding grows as God allows it, and personally speaking it's as if that coincides with the growth of our faith in the pursuit of His truth. Thank you for taking the time to read let's go through an expedited reflection on the overarching plan of salvation.

I believe the entire bible points us to Jesus Christ, and we can find clues to understanding God's divine will and character. In the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon there are a few passages that stood out in relation to the overall path of salvation which sheds some light on why God's plan is how it is.

From the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon 1:12-15

12 Do not invite death by the error of your

life

or bring on destruction by the works of

your hands;

13 because God did not make death,

and he does not delight in the death of

the living.

14 For he created all things that they might

exist,

and the origins' of the world are wholesome,

and there is no destructive poison in them

and the dominion of Hades is not on

earth.

15 For righteousness is immortal.

For by free will and the knowledge of good and evil, we attain, through free will, the knowledge of evil to the extent of free will. That through the biting of the fruit, humanity comes to know hell and the road to perdition. For all was already perfect and divinely just. That God himself, out of love, warned Adam and Eve not to partake of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil because evil, being opposed to God's goodness, causes death. For death is the destruction of God's living creatures, in which He finds no delight in their demise.

For God's will is that He created all things that they might exist. His will is that we may have eternal life. Such that unless we have Christ in us, due to our propensity to sin and our lack of righteousness at the level of almighty God, even a single gram of evil in us would cause death because evil opposes God's will. We can, therefore, be justified for life through His grace and the righteousness of Christ.

Therefore, through His grace and knowing that they did not understand what would happen, God, out of His mercy and righteousness, forgave humanity. Such that He gave Himself to account unto death that He might conquer it through His sinlessness, so that He might bring them back to Him in eternal life.

The choice, therefore, goes that through our free will and choice, we might answer the call that God makes. For it is God who calls upon us, for all who come to Christ do so because the Father has called them. The same Father that wants all to be saved. Therefore, all have been called, and through our own choice, must answer that call that we might be justified unto eternal life through His grace. Meaning justified into righteousness, which is immortal.

"For righteousness is immortal"

- The book of the Wisdom of Solomon 1:15

I hope this reflection has shed light and watered the seed of faith in your heart in some part through the grace and glory of God our Father.