How did you reject him?
So if those parents hadn't rejected God, however they did that, their children would have been cured?
If the Genesis account is accurate...
and I would guess that is a mega huge if for you. I understand that...
But you asked...
In the beginning there were only two humans, Adam and Eve both created by God, and we had intimate knowledge and fellowship with God, and He asked us to not do only one thing. Not a hundred things, just one. They disobeyed God and did that one thing, and so rejected His authority over them. The creatures rejected their Creator.
But He loved them, and seeing them in their state of rejecting Him, He did not want them to remain in that state forever as a race. Forever lost to Him, forever apart from Him. He really wanted an intimate relationship with them. But they had broken the relationship, were ashamed, and did not even want to be in God’s presence. They hid themselves from Him. So he granted their wish.
Because they rejected Him, He separated Himself from them and placed them on the Earth and gave this planet to them to rule over. And He placed limits on them, the length of their lives was limited, limiting the length of His separation from them.
The Earth, is not impossible to live on, but can be difficult. And can cause, heartache on multiple levels. Either driving us back to God, creating a longing for a restored relationship with Him, or driving us away from a restored relationship with Him if we continue to blame Him for our choices.
I had to leave a few things out but that is apparently, more or less how we ended up here as a race. It began when we rejected His authority over us. Our choice in Adam and Eve, was our fault not individually but as a race.
But we all still do the same kind of things individually now but in different ways.
I would guess that I am no different than most.
Perhaps like most of us, when we are very young, we are captivated by the wonder and beauty of the world, God’s amazing gifts to us, the gift of life itself, we know right from wrong, how to love and how to hate, we normally have a built in conscience, and as we grow and learn and make one choice after another, and learn to write run-on-sentences like this one. But I digress. Sorry!
We make choices, in a way like Adam and Eve did.
We know what is right from the conscience God has given us. But we choose evil, we choose to sin against God and our fellow man. We choose to steel, and then lie about it, for example. We decide to blame God, with an unthankful heart. Even for the gift of life itself. And each time we choose evil our heart grows just a bit more calloused, just a bit harder, colder.
And I assume you know the gospel account after that and have rejected it, right? Or am I wrong. I love to be wrong about some things. It means I can grow and become a better person.
Ok, time for everyone to laugh out loud, and rip me to pieces and call me backward, and stupid.
A one and a two and a three...
If the above is true, it was not directly the fault of those parents, but really all of us as a race.
