Genesis 1:26 (Amplified) says, "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."
God made mankind as an act of Love. God produced a family that He could fellowship with and raise in His Own House of Blessing. The earthly home God created, was to be the place where His family would be increased and raised, in His Own Presence and protection. God gave mankind the responsibility of tending the Garden, as a way of teaching His family the labor of Love, for what they had. The Garden would be reproduced, until it covered the whole earth, by their tending and keeping it.
Everything in the earth was for the use and fulfillment of God's family. There was never to be any shortage of food, because the trees and plants would reproduce and replenish the earth, for eternity. The Curse wasn't present when God created the earth, so reproduction would have been perpetual and continue for eternity. The weather and earth's temperature were regulated by God's Own design, so His family would never have suffered cold, extreme heat or need water or food. As God was to the tribes of Israel in the desert, so would He be in the beginning with His family. They could rest in His provision and guidance for their lives, until they grew in understanding, wisdom, and adulthood in His House.
Man didn't have any knowledge or understanding about life, because he just came into being. Like any father, God would teach and guide man into the newness of Life. God presented Adam with the animals He created, and Adam named them all. Genesis 2:20,23 (Amplified) says, "And Adam gave names to all of the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every wild beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complimentary) for him." God presented Eve to Adam in Verse 23 which says, "Then Adam said, This creature is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man."
Everything was created with it's seed in it, making it able to reproduce. With the seed and with this Woman, Adam and Eve produced what was to be God's family. Every child born of Eve, the seed of Adam as God's Son, would produce after kind and would bring forth man like himself, into God's house. The Seed Principle was still a Spiritual Law in God's Kingdom, even after Adam's fall. Adam continued bringing forth descendants, who bore the wages of sin and death to all generations following him---until Jesus.
Love doesn't force Himself on anyone or make them stay, so God's man must have the ability to choose to stay or choose not to stay. The "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" was in the Garden the entire time before Adam and Eve ate from it, but they chose to remain in God's understanding and guidance. If God made man stay, then that would produce only bondage, instead of liberty. If man only stayed, because he had too, then it wouldn't produce a family of Love, but one of bondage. Choosing to stay, is Love. Love is a choice, not a Law. If man didn't have the liberty to choose, then God would only have created a puppet, who had no life or liberty to make decisions for himself.
We see that Love is a choice, throughout the entire new covenant, which tells us that, "God so Loved the world, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever would believe should not perish but have Eternal Life," in John 3:16. Love gave. It's only by accepting that Love, that you can be saved. God doesn't make you believe and He will never force you to accept Jesus as your Lord. If you were forced or made to believe, then you weren't in liberty, but still in bondage. We must respond to Love by choice, in order to walk in the liberty of the new creation. Adam didn't have to eat from the Tree, he had a choice. Love always gives you a choice.
We read about Love in Galatians 5:6 (Amplified), which says, "For if we are in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through Love." Serving God isn't something we're "compelled to do," by ritual laws or traditions.
God will never "make" you get saved, unless you express faith in His Love. Salvation has been offered to all men, but many haven't put faith toward that Love or responded to Love by faith. God is Love and He will never make you be healed or make you do anything. It's our place to respond to Love, by faith in Love, to make it work as God intended. Love has offered all things to mankind in Jesus, but Love will never force Himself on anyone. God's will, is Love and Love has given all it has, in Jesus. If you refuse to believe that God Loves you, enough to do all He says, then you stop Love from working in your life. Faith works by Love.
Love has produced, faith receives. Love is the force by which the two (faith and receiving) com together. Without faith in His Love, you'll always be in a place of doubt and will continue trying to make yourself worthy to receive His Love. The only thing we need to do, is put faith in the Love and the Finished Work of Jesus Christ. The more you understand the fullness of God's Love for you, the stronger your faith in Him will be. You can trust your entire life to the One Who Loves you enough to die in your place. It's your choice though. By Love, Adam had been given the freedom of choice. He could either stay or go. Love didn't make him stay and Love will never stop bringing us to the place, where we can choose to respond to Love, by love or choose not to respond. This is why faith works by Love. The more we understand Love, the stronger our faith in Him will be.
1John 4:16-17 (Amplified) says this to us today, "And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of), by observation and experience, and believe (adhere to, and put faith in, and rely on), the Love God cherishes for us. God is Love, and he who dwells and continues Love dwells in and continues in God and God dwells and continues in him. In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us; that we may have confidence for the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, for as He is, so are we in this world." Faith works by Love and the more you know God's Love for you, the stronger your faith will be in His ability to hear and respond to your prayers and fellowship. When we understand His Love towards us, then have assurance in Him. You can't have faith in Someone you don't trust!!!
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