Part 2 – ‘Sin’ was Actualized Before Adam was Created and Sinned
| This Article is part of a multi-part Study Series called Four Degrees of God’s Reconciliation of the Heaven and The Earth. |
We begin looking at the four (4) degrees of God’s “reconciliation” … starting at the beginning to understand ‘the conflict of the ages’ that has existed from before Adam was created. Then we will move toward God’s full “reconciliation” of the “all things… in heaven and on earth.” My short article “The First Sinner,” as seen at www.artlicursi.com, offers added information on this topic.
- The Reconciling of “the world” refers to the reconciliation of ‘the whole created arrangement’ both ‘in heaven and on earth.’
Both the heaven and earth have been corrupted since to the fall of Lucifer, before Adam’s fall, Adam then later becoming the progenitor of the sinful race of all mankind
God planned and has reconciled “the whole world (Gk. cosmos, the creation of heaven and the earth)” by the Cross, including the reconciling of mankind, BEFORE we believed.
Titus 1:2 In hope (expectation) of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Romans 5:8 … while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”(accomplishing our ‘reconciliation’)
Romans 5:10 … when (while) we were enemies, we were ‘Reconciled to God’ by the death of his Son, Much More, being (already) reconciled, we shall be saved (Gk. sozo, completed) by his life.
1 John 2:2 he (Jesus) is the propitiation (payment) for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for (in response to) the sins of the whole ‘world.’
2 Cor. 5:19 God was in Christ, reconciling the world (the whole created arrangement) unto himself, not imputing (counting) their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
- Now, with the whole ‘World (cosmos) already Reconciled by the Cross,’ lost individuals may receive Reconciliation with God by faith in the Cross-work of Christ.
All humans are born into the World lost, unrighteous, and alienated from God.
Rom. 5:12 … by one man (Adam), Sin (the nature of Satan) Entered INTO The World (from outside), and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Rom. 3:10 … (so) There is none righteous, no, not one:
The Cross Restores Believers to “peace with God” to also receive Christ’s Life as the believer’s new life.
Rom. 5:1 … being justified by faith, we have Peace With God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Eph. 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye (Gentiles) who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Col. 1:21 And you, that were sometime (in time past) alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he ‘RECONCILED.’
- All believers are “reconciled” not only “unto God” … but “reconciled” also to each other at the same time … In the “One Body” of Christ.
Eph. 2:14-16 For he is our peace (Jew and Gentile), who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain One New Man, so making peace; 16 And that he might ‘RECONCILE Both unto God in ‘One body’ by the cross, having slain the enmity (between them) thereby:
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized (set wholly) Into One Body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.