GOD ORDAINED THE FALL OF ADAM JUST AS HE ORDAINED THE FALL OF THE ANGELS
Pt. 11
When it comes to Adam, not only did God know that Adam would sin along with Eve, but He ordained it. This ordaining of angels and Adam to freely choose to sin is one of the most difficult truths believers wrestle with. He ordained it due to His higher purpose of creating to manifest His mercy and grace; wrath and justice; which are aspects of His nature. Because He purposed to act on all aspects of His one perfect nature in creation for His glory, ordaining the fall of angels and man was willed by God in order to complete ALL of His good pleasure in creating ( Rev. 4:11; Eph. 1:1-9; Is. 46:10). It pleases God to ordain that His creatures will be overtaken by sin in order that He will either: 1) saved the ones He elected to salvation to express His mercy and grace, and 2) allow the non-elect to continue in their disobedience and rejection of Him so that He can express His wrath and justice. It is not that He takes pleasure in the condemnation of the non-elect, rather, it pleases Him to express His hatred for sin and the corruption of how He created both sinful angels and mankind and to satisfy His righteous anger over the free choices of his creatures to disobey Him, reject Him, be at enmity towards Him, and to hate Him and His righteousness. This ordination of sin to come into His creation is for His glory, the glory of all that is involved with His holy, divine, changeless nature expressed in righteousness, goodness, and justice. ( Rom. 9:22-23)
We wrestle with this aspects of God's purpose and will, but it is plainly taught in Scripture as Romans 9 speaks to, but we can be assured that God always does what is perfect and right. ( Deut 32:3-4; Ps. 145:17; Rev. 15:3-4)
We must believe this, even when we find what He wills and does is hard for us to swallow.
We will talk more on God ordaining this and more in the next section.
Pt. 11
When it comes to Adam, not only did God know that Adam would sin along with Eve, but He ordained it. This ordaining of angels and Adam to freely choose to sin is one of the most difficult truths believers wrestle with. He ordained it due to His higher purpose of creating to manifest His mercy and grace; wrath and justice; which are aspects of His nature. Because He purposed to act on all aspects of His one perfect nature in creation for His glory, ordaining the fall of angels and man was willed by God in order to complete ALL of His good pleasure in creating ( Rev. 4:11; Eph. 1:1-9; Is. 46:10). It pleases God to ordain that His creatures will be overtaken by sin in order that He will either: 1) saved the ones He elected to salvation to express His mercy and grace, and 2) allow the non-elect to continue in their disobedience and rejection of Him so that He can express His wrath and justice. It is not that He takes pleasure in the condemnation of the non-elect, rather, it pleases Him to express His hatred for sin and the corruption of how He created both sinful angels and mankind and to satisfy His righteous anger over the free choices of his creatures to disobey Him, reject Him, be at enmity towards Him, and to hate Him and His righteousness. This ordination of sin to come into His creation is for His glory, the glory of all that is involved with His holy, divine, changeless nature expressed in righteousness, goodness, and justice. ( Rom. 9:22-23)
We wrestle with this aspects of God's purpose and will, but it is plainly taught in Scripture as Romans 9 speaks to, but we can be assured that God always does what is perfect and right. ( Deut 32:3-4; Ps. 145:17; Rev. 15:3-4)
We must believe this, even when we find what He wills and does is hard for us to swallow.
We will talk more on God ordaining this and more in the next section.
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