In the Beginning:   Adam and Eve decided to pass on living forever in the perfect Paradise that God had created for them, and since He is the Alpha and Omega, He Knew all along the choices that they were going to make.  Being our loving Father, God then presented them with phase two of His eternal in the beginning design.    ‘ Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” (Genesis 3:22) 

After taking on this new found knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve now believed they were naked in the flesh and needed to hide from God. So, in an instant God continued on with His perfect plan, as He called them out and provided a garment covering with the first blood sacrifice of two lambs.  They now experienced a new plan of action living inside the three dimensions of time, space and matter.  In practical terms, what this means for Adam and Eve is that their new knowledge has changed the course of life into an alternate reality introducing the new condition that the days of their life on Earth are now to be numbered.  Looking back through this human condition of time, we see this as the first of many examples of God’s Love being offered in order to deliver His children from the faltering use of their “free will”.  For example: Noah’s deliverance from the flood; the scattering from  tower of Babel; Jonah’s experience; Lot from Sodom and Gomorrah;. Joseph to Egypt; and the Exodus out.  All of these are examples of God calling man out from the old nature of sin since time in the beginning.  Thus, saving humanity by the ultimate expression of God’s love for us when He sent His only begotten Son Jesus to redeem the lost.      “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” (John 3:16-18)

Since we know that God never changes, He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. And since we acknowledge also that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John.1:1-3)   We can also expect that God continues to extend the gift of “free will” today for all His people, so that it can be put to the daily test of choosing between “good and evil/ Life and death”.   It seems like an easy enough choice, and really, it shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to make the right call, especially when God gave us the correct answer:  “choose life”.  The real problem arises from that very first lie of the enemy that still rings in men’s ears today:  “You will not surely die.” (Gen.3;4)

In this natural world, we recognize that the choices before us are: up and down; right and left; true and false ; light and dark; peace and war, with the top of the list being to Love rather than hate.  When Jesus was asked: “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the great and first commandment.  And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
(Matthew 22:36-40)

So there we have it!  When we are standing at the door, will we choose to open it or just walk away?  Remembering that God gave us “free will” and He will never force us to love Him or to love our neighbor.  In truth He will not make us choose Heaven over hell.  Just as it is in the law of Nature, (Nash our teeth as we may) there is an up and a down aspect in relationship to our Spiritual or mortal mind set choices that we make. ( 1John 4:6b)

Therefore Choose Life!  (Deut. 30:19)

“But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.  And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. (Hebrews 9:26-28) 

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