Taking counsel with yourself you have to determine what type
of god you’re going to be—that’s a tough one but being god you’ve got the “smarts”
to figure out what characteristics you’d want to live with or manifest. Because, since it’s your universe you figure
whatever you establish concerning anything will become the “norm”. For example, suppose you wanted “fickleness”
[“marked by erratic changeableness, especially in affections” {dictionary
definition}] to be characteristic of your universe that would become the “norm”. Anything that happened that wasn’t “fickle”
would be alien to your kingdom or universe—you might even elect to call such
non-fickleness “sin”. Anything that’s a
characteristic of your universe is also a reflection of your character;
therefore you would be a “fickle” god.
Reader, you get the idea, God created the universe as a
reflection of His own character and being—at least the only God we know of operates
this way.
Because God is “social”, He created man. The action is self-evident. And, wouldn’t you know it, God created man in
His own image (Genesis 1:27)—how could it be otherwise? Making man just a little lower than Himself
(Psalm 8:5), paving the way for them to visit in the most natural of
relationships (Genesis 3:8).
Growing out of certain realities, namely that God was God
and Adam was a created being, God established the rules—actually, there was only
one rule, “And the Lord God commanded the
man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you
eat of it you shall surely die’” (Genesis 2:16 & 17). That was it—just one
rule. As it was this man had authority
over the whole earth, had unlimited communion with his creator, and had the
prospect of living forever upon the earth.
What more could he ask? Well,
there was the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—it was
probably the sweetest of all and God had forbade it to him. Who did God think He was? The negativity had been intimated by Lucifer through the serpent.
The entertainment of such thoughts was moving Adam, and now
his partner, Eve, into some mighty dangerous territory; they were toying around
with the notion of disobeying God! Who
knows how long they toyed around with the notion; doubtless long enough for it
to consume their thoughts. Then it
happened—they partook of the fruit and immediately things began to happen. First, a deep, deep darkness entered into
their souls because their “spirit person” had died. Then the “shekinah glory” of God (as some
have conjectured) which heretofore covered Adam and Eve was gone and with it
their innocence so that they saw themselves naked (Genesis 3:10).
Then God came calling.
He must. Though He knew exactly what
had happened, indeed knew before it happened, still He must speak with His
children about what has happened. (This
was the first of the two most grievous meetings between God and His children,
the other would take place at Calvary.)
The sinless God must speak with His children who only moments before
were sinless. Oh the agony, the anguish
of that moment for God would be hidden until God’s only “begotten” Son paid the
price at Calvary for what Adam and Eve had done. Yes, Jesus, paid the price for the sins of
the whole world but it would not have been any more or less had it been only
for Adam and Eve.
This is the price one pays for being God. Since we can’t be God, doesn’t it make sense
to be His most obedient sons and daughters?
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