We read in Genesis 1:26-27 (Amplified), "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created Man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."
The Father's Original Intent was for man to be an "under ruler" with God Himself. Man was to have all the authority over the earth and earth was to be his domain. God intended for mankind to walk together, as Father and family. Man's authority was delegated by God Himself and man would rule on earth, by the Wisdom and Grace of God. Man was created a spirit and was "breathed" into a physical body with a soul, with the five physical senses to contact and rule in a physical earth. Man's physical senses and instructions would be in subjection to his spirit and not the other way around. Adam walked with God in this state for eons of years, before he transgressed in the Garden of Eden.
This is the state in which God has brought us back to, in Jesus. We're once again His children and are brought back to God's Original Intention for mankind. The things we've learned about God's intention for His children, have originated from man's carnal mind, with it's understanding. Many have believed that it was always God's Plan for mankind to sins and fall from Grace, in order to bring Jesus in as the Sacrificed Lamb. If that's true, then God Himself was directly responsible for all the death, sickness, and heartache that mankind has ever suffered. When we know the Father's heart, then we would never believe He intentionally caused such suffering for His children.
As lord over this earth, Adam had the ability to make decisions on his own. If Adam couldn't make his own decisions, then he wouldn't be in God's Image and Likeness, but he'd be a puppet set on a string and he wouldn't be responsible for his actions. God would be pulling the strings and thus, would be at fault. If we have any understanding of our Heavenly Father, then we would know that Love Himself would never do such a thing. Adam walked with God and took his leading from God, without fail, for many years. God would never deliberately cause Adam to fall, after caring and providing for his every need for so long. This isn't the nature or character of our Heavenly Father.
During His earthly ministry, we never witness Jesus making someone fail, but He gave them every chance to "get it right." Jesus was the Exact Likeness and Image of the Father, according to Hebrews 1:3 (Amplified), which says, "He is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God (the Light-Being, the out-raying or Radiance of the Divine), and He is the Perfect Imprint and Very Image of God's nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty Word and Power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the Divine Majesty on High."
Implying that God deliberately caused Adam to sin, is lacking total understanding of our Father. No earthly father would deliberately do these things to our children, so why would we think we're better fathers than God is? It required the torture and death of Jesus, to return us to the Father's intention. The Father's heart of Love would never deliberately do these things to His children. His Love was so great for us, that He sent His Only Begotten Son to suffer and die for us, in order to restore us back to His Original Intention.
When Love would go to that length, in order to redeem and restore mankind, this Same Love would never deliberately force man into such calamity and suffering. Adam had the ability to make his own decisions and like us, he chose wrong things. God could have left mankind in this fallen state, had it not been for His Great Love for us in the beginning. God has restored us through Jesus and has elevated us into an even higher state than in the beginning. If God deliberately caused Adam to fall, then He intentionally caused all the child molestation, murders, wars, plagues and disease, and the broken lives in the lives of those He created out of His Love.
It would be foolish to have Jesus endure what He did, in order to bring mankind out of the place he wouldn't have been in, if God hadn't caused it. It was never God's Original Intent for mankind to go into bondage of an outlaw spirit (satan) and to suffer the terrible things that satan has subjected mankind to. God's Love went to great extremes, in order to return us to His Original Plan from the beginning.
God's Grace for mankind reached out when nothing else cold reach us, and brought us back to Himself. When Jesus returns, we will reach into the fullness of God's Original Intent for mankind, walking in His Love. At that time, we'll receive a body that is immortal and a spirit that is eternal. We'll live with and in the fullness of our Father's Love, like He intended from the very beginning.
We've never understood the Father's heart, because we've read His Word with a carnal mind and interpreted it by our own ideas and understanding. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver), the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." It's foolish to try understanding God's Word with a carnal mind. Only the Spirit can reveal the Truth of God's Word to us.
Many of today's doctrines come from man's ideas, which have been devised from a carnal mind. We've been held back from the Super-natural Presence of God, because man-made religion has no power in it. The one true thing that the Church has walked in over the years, is getting people born-again. This is the most important thing that man could reach, but we've been left impotent as far as the ministry of the Holy Spirit is concerned.
This is the Year of Understanding and Revelation, for the Church and the lives of God's people. This is the generation that will learn to rest in the fullness of God's Promises and His ability to deliver. Many believers have "hanging on, until Jesus comes again," but we will reach into a place where the world will know that the Holy Spirit has come to carry-on Jesus' ministry, through us. The age of miracles and manifestation of God's Power will reach into every nation by His Spirit and the world will know His Name. It will be motivated by Love Himself, Who refuses to leave mankind in this mess and under satan's bondage. Paul says in 1Corinthians 2:4 (Amplified), "And my language and my Message were not set forth in persuasive, enticing and plausible words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the Holy Spirit and Power (a proof by the Spirit and Power of God), operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them."
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