Question: According to the (Bible) book of Genesis was it God’s plan that Adam and Eve ate from the tree of good and evil?
Almighty God knows “the end from the beginning” (Isa. 46:8–10)!
In that impossible for humans to understand statement (which for progress in the knowing of the Bible and to some extent the Mind of Almighty God) it has to be accepted in “Faith”; which irritates beyond measure the enemies of God Almighty and the Bible!
Moving to the question in hand; God therefore knew that Eve and Adam would not be able to resist eventually “tasting the fruit of good and evil “ ; which established the fact of “free-will”!
You then may say “why bother”!
The reason is based in the truth of the Rebellion of God’s created angel/Authority, Lucifer; who (in his own free-will) rebelled against his Loving Creator, Almighty God, and became “the enemy of God”; Who afterwards renamed him “Satan” (adversary); and confined him to Earth, to convert as many humans as he can to his Satanic domain, within the time limit, and extremity limit God has stipulated, and Satan is bound in their war contest for the “souls” of mankind!
Simultaneously with all this happening, is God’s selecting of a human dynasty, which He can/could trust to work for Him on Earth, in the Special Selection of “Chosen People”; which is The Jewish Nation, initiated in the Trust and Faith of Abram!
As is well seen in History, and summarised in the Book of Malachi, Israel have failed in this vital trust, and have reneged on their Vows given in Deuteronomy 27, but, this became the perfect opportunity to outwit Satan, by the enabling of the Gen.3:15 prophecy, to produce the “seed of the woman”; I.E. Christ Jesus, to enable the next stage of the Salvation Journey of God’s Planned “Universal Salvation By FAITH”; for those who will see and accept His Great Love in Christ Jesus! Israel, after the events of Zech.12:10, will be saved by Christ Jesus (Ezek. 39:21–29), and will become His “Kingdom of Priests” (Ex.19:6 & Rev.1:6)!
So; we see that The Great God of All the Universe, has made it possible to receive His Love, even by the mind of the Child, all the way to the greatest Academic (even though they in the main have the greatest trouble, as Jesus said when teaching the Kingdom of Heaven;) “for such as these is the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matt.19:14)!
From this brief comment we see that our Loving God has made relating with Him sufficiently easy for “ALL who will” (Rev. 22:17) to Know Him, no matter what their age or status; and that the critical element is “FREE-WILL”.
All who turn to Jesus, no matter what age, will enter “His Body”, which the Apostle Paul described lucidly in (Eph.1:13–14 & 2:21–22)!
The fact that a person of any age can Enter God’s Grace in Christ Jesus, means that a Group or Church has no power to give permission or deny the will of the person, and over time the person will develop into their own direction of travel as regards a Group to belong to; or not!
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