In his latest opportunity to contribute to the wealth of Theological knowledge and discourse on The Cripplegate, pastor Eric engages a topic that many have asked for countless generations – Why did God decree the fall?

Pastor Eric, consulting the works of the great Theologian John Owen, opens with:

It’s a question that every Christian eventually asks. “Why did God allow the world to go the way it did?” For believers, and often unbelievers, it doesn’t take much to see that God did not have to create a human race destined to fall. He was not obligated to create that tree in the garden, nor was he obliged to allow Satan’s fall, the subsequent deception, Eve’s taking of the fruit, Adam’s sin, and subsequent billions of his image-bearers birthed in high-handed rebellion. Why did he create a world upon which he would pronounce a curse that leaves no corner of the creation, image-bearing or not, without carnage, spiritual and physical?

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