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It’s just your garden-variety love story: man is created by God; he is put in charge of everything; success never fully satisfies him; man becomes lonely; God has a woman for the man; man meets the woman; man loves the woman; they are both naked; man’s head spins with desire (he can’t think straight); woman makes a really bad choice; man stands by and watches (he’s too distracted by her naked body); man participates in the really bad choice; God finds out; man blames the woman; woman blames the devil; they both receive a death sentence (along with all of their future children). The outcome looks bleak.
What would you do if you ran the zoo? What would you do if you had an opportunity to rewrite the story? What if you could just advise Adam before his fateful act of utter neglect? You could warn him that what he was about to do would birth death and destruction into creation. Would you do it? Would you attempt to change the course of history and help mankind sidestep thousands of years of pain, misery, and suffering? I wouldn’t! Certainly, we’d be better off had Adam never shirked his responsibility, no? Surely, if we had the option to rewind and help Adam make a better choice, all of mankind would benefit, right?
The answer is a resounding no! Had sin never come into the world, sure things would have been perfectly pleasant since creation. Unfortunately, one thing is easy to overlook that supersedes the potential benefits of living in a world that never tasted sin—the need for a Savior! And the ultimate inheritance we have with that savior—a perfect, permanent, unalterable, incorruptible eternity with God. You see, Adam and all humans after him, would have forever carried the risk of sinning at some point—resulting in death. Human beings are potentially fallible. But the glorified body we will inherit one day because we have a Savior is permanently infallible, and I would not attempt to prevent all the pain, misery, and suffering experienced throughout human history, if losing that was the price!
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