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NASB | Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 3:15 "And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel." [Gal 4:4] |
Bible Question: Since God is omnipotent and omniscent, why did He allow sin to take over all mankind? Why didn't He make us sinless? He could have created us without the abilility to sin, so why didn't He? And why did He not prevent His angels from taking over(Satan and his angels who fell from grace)? These questions have been asked by my 23 yr. old daughter. She feels that God is just using us as playing pieces in a chess game. I told her that God gave man the will to choose for himself and he chose to sin. God's gift of redemption by giving us His only begotten Son shows His awesome love for us in spite of our freewill to choose to sin. Can you better help me answer her question re: this? |
Bible Answer: We have free will just as the devil had free will to rebel. The devil convinced Adam and Eve to sin which is to disobey God. God could have destroyed the devil at the very first sign of his rebellion against God. But what would prove to all the other angels that rebelling was not good other than the fear of being destroyed by God. That is not love that is a dictatorship. Instead God would allow the sin to takes its course and provide a way for man to come back into love relationship with Him. In the end the whole universe and all God's angels and created being will see the result of sin and the love of God to give a chance to sinners to repent. There will never be sin again because God has now shown the outcome of that decision and no one will ever what to go that way. God had to be proven to be just and merciful at the same time. God will not accept out worship out of fear but only out of love. And even though He gave us the free will to chose sin over love - Gof proved His love to all mankind and the universe by never stopped loving us even in our sinful state. Hope this helps !!! Merv |