Chapter
6: The Sin Drama and Why God Created Man in the
Proposition: I find it logical that God created our entire 3D universe after He already had angelic beings living in a higher order (EG 4D) universe, who had sinned. He created our universe a little lower than theirs in order for them to observe the sin drama (great conflict) as we play it out here to its bitter end. This will enable them to understand evil by watching us and preclude the need for them to do evil themselves. As such, God can then realize His ultimate vision of a happily ever after kingdom of heaven for all angelic beings.
This concept at first seems hard to accept because it looks like God is playing games with us. Nevertheless, alternate scenarios would seem more like game playing than this one. Why would we be the only race to have this problem? Why would God create us a little lower than the angels? Why did God make Adam from the dirt when He knew beforehand that Adam would fall? Wasn’t our universe created as a temporary demonstration from the start? Try answering these questions with conventional scenarios and see if one scenario fits all of them.
Tell me if you have any problem with these statements:
- God had angels before He created humans
- God had angels before day 4 of our creation week when the other celestial bodies were created in our universe.
- Sin arose in the angel universe before day 1 of our creation week.
- Angelic beings can pass through our 3D walls without having accidents.
- Humans were created lower than the angelic beings.
- God had a plan for our salvation before He created us.
- Humans are designed to die.
- Flesh and blood alone cannot enter the kingdom of heaven (1Cor 15:50).
- God created Adam and Eve from the dirt and taught them to survive before they fell, even though no other intelligent beings had been created in this way nor given such survival tools.
- God knew we would fall and sin would rise in our world.
- Sin arose in a “perfect” angelic universe, but after it plays out here, it will never need to arise again in that “perfect” angelic universe.
- Something about us playing out the sin drama with the angels watching, is essential if God is ever to achieve a “happy ever after” scenario in the kingdom of heaven.
- God demonstrates that He loves us even as we play out this essential drama, because He became a human Himself (Christ) and died a human death for us (John 15:13)
The scenario,
which fits all of these statements, ties in perfectly with the eternal gospel
message, http://www.nasamike.com/main/book/6c.htm. If you can accept these statements,
then you can see the logic in the initial proposition. God first needed a plan to save His
pre-existing angelic beings. We provide
the mechanism for that solution. We
reveal the nature and consequences of deciding to do evil. By watching our many decisions and their
ultimate consequences over hundreds of generations, the observers can
understand the subtle connections. They
can thoroughly understand evil and even recognize the earliest warning
signs. We also demonstrate that God has
created morally free-willed intelligent beings with the opportunity to choose
good or evil. Because we self-destruct as we try to hide from God, we
demonstrate that the wages of sin is death, not a tolerable existence. The angelic beings can fully understand evil
by observing us and thus avoid learning this by choosing evil themselves.
Remember that if they choose evil, then the consequences will be their
death. Hence, we die so the audience can
live. They are watching us play out
numerous games of chess, so that when they play, they will have enough
experience to make the right choices.
They don’t need to lose to learn.
They can then live forever, ie have everlasting life, without ever
making choices that will result in sin. By watching us the Angels acquire
the, “Knowledge of Good and Evil”, which is pre-requisite to living Happily
Ever After in the
Note: Why not merely have the remaining “Good” angels just sit back and watch the already “Bad” angels until they self-destruct? I say it would take far too long. With humans that drama can play out much more quickly. Yet, by using generations of humans instead of extremely long lifetimes, God can introduce many more scenarios to learn from. Many new humans are given different situations to experience and to choose within, so the audience gets to see a lot more scenarios, choices, and consequences, in that short time it will take humans to self-destruct. This way, the observers can experience all the ramifications of choices that lead to self-destruction. This way they can fully understand evil so they will be able to avoid those choices.
So, God elects to go with the human drama for His angelic audience to learn from. But then, God needs a plan to save us. God must show that He is a loving God. So, before He puts this human drama in motion, He has a plan of salvation for us. This plan provides the means by which, even though we die due to sin, yet He can give us everlasting life with the angelic beings. To prove He loves us as we are going through this vale of tears, He gives up everything as Michael the Archangel and He thinks of Himself instead as a human (Jesus Christ) just like us. He is totally human, but He is the one human, Who is like God. He dies a human death for us (John 15:13) to prove His love. Later, He is raised and transformed into an angelic being again. We can follow His lead if we follow His life. We too, must want to have a relationship with God in everything we do, if we are to follow Him. Like Christ demonstrated, we can and should talk to our Creator all the time. This is what builds a relationship with God.
For humans, the question is not whether we are morally free-willed. We are indeed making our own choices, even if God knows what we will choose. The question for us is whether or not we want to have a relationship with our Creator. We must in this life choose Life (talking to God) over Death (hiding from God). We already have witnessed sin by doing evil and by watching evil. Having done evil, we must eventually die. There is no question about that. For us to yet receive everlasting life after this human death, we must be re-created in angelic form as the resurrected Christ was. The option is open to all humans to be changed on the Last Day if we choose that (1Cor 15:50-53).
Bottom Line: To receive
everlasting life you must talk to God when you’re good or bad, happy or
sad. If you won’t do that now, you’d
never be happy in heaven.
5 December 2002, 11January 2009
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