Why Did God Wait to Send Jesus? – Part 1

God created everything perfect; everything was good. He made man in His image, and man was good too. Being created in the image of God, man was a free moral agent. God gave him a choice to do His will or not. This choice was manifest in the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God said to man, “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). While man abstained, he remained pure.

Satan entered the garden and tempted Eve to eat of the fruit. She did, and she gave it to Adam to eat also. Sin entered the world, and God cast man out of the garden lest they have access to the tree of life (Genesis 3:22). Man failed to maintain his purity. He needed salvation. Could man save himself? Could he be good without God?

Every child born into the world is innocent. Genesis 8:21 says that man begins to sin “from his youth,” not “from his birth.” Every single person has a chance to live a morally pure life, but no one does. Everyone sins eventually. At the dawn of time, however, this had yet to be proved. Could some man live a morally pure life without God’s aid? The Old Testament shows otherwise. By the time of the flood (Genesis 6), approximately 2000 years after creation, there had not been a single person to live a morally pure life. God’s justice demanded that they be destroyed. The flood came and reset the world. What would man do next? Could there be some other way for him to produce a faithful servant?

God bless you, and I love you.

Kevin Cauley