The Loss of the Sole Reason for Existence (TMF:1197)

Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Peace to Live By: The Loss of the Sole Reason for Existence (TMF:1197) - Daniel Litton
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       While Satan took life from Adam, Christ gives life to all who will believe through his death and resurrection. But Satan’s ultimate goal in getting Adam and Eve to eat the fruit was to ruin their relationship with God. He wanted them to be separated from God, no longer having the intimate fellowship with him that they so dearly enjoyed beforehand. And this not only hurt Adam and Eve, but it also hurt God because he lost his fellowship with them. Undoubtedly, he loved being close to them and having that relationship with them. That’s our sole reason for existence, after all, to be in close relationship with God. That’s why he created humans in the first place. He wanted to have beings who would willingly choose to love him. And that’s what Adam and Eve had been doing. Satan presented a choice to love God, or to love self first. In other words, the choice really was, “Who is God? Is God really God, or should God be ourselves?” Again, that’s what sin does. When we sin, we are making ourselves God.