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- Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
- What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
- Can God create a rock so big that even God can't lift it?
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;. . . " Genesis 1:27
According to Genesis, God created Adam. . . mankind. . . US! We've been created to be like God.
God is love - so if we are like God, then we must be "beings of love". . . creatures who can receive love, who can give love, who can BE love.
So, what gives? What's that got to do with a @#$%! rock?
It's that love cannot be forced. To truly be love - it must be freely given. To be freely given - there must be the ability to refuse. To be able to refuse - there must be a choice. To freely choose - there must be the possibility of choosing badly.
God cannot change that. "But" you say, "God is All Powerful and can do [partner_sites.shtml] anything. " Can't do that.
Not because God is unable to or doesn't have the power to but because God is Love and since God is partner_sites.shtml All There Is, everything must be God. And if everything is God, then everything must be Love and must therefor adhere to the "law of Love" . . . that Love must choose freely.
It's the ability to choose (some call it "free will") that is the seed of our "likeness" to God.
This ability to choose "allowed" Adam to sin. Adam made a bad choice, but that ability to choose was the perfection of God's creation.
Now, once we've got the ability to choose, what do we need next? The guidelines for making good choices.
So, Adam needed to have the Knowledge of Good and Evil so that "good" might be chosen. Without that knowledge, making a right choice is just a 50/50 proposition. This is why what seemed cruel (the tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden in the last post) is the key to mankind's perfection.