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In his book "The Christian in Complete Armour," William Gurnall makes an excellent point regarding the nature of our relationship with God compared to that of Adam's prior to his fall in the garden:
"God would never have allowed His first workmanship to be so scarred by sin if He had not planned to build a more magnificent structure out of its ruins. Because He intended to print man's happiness in the second edition with a more perfect type than the first, He used Christ as the only fit instrument to accomplish this design: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly' (John 10:10). He did not come to give the dead and damned a bare peace - naked life - but a more abundant life than man ever had before sin separated him from God."
In sum I think Gurnall is showing one way in just how God is ultimately glorified in the fall. Our relationship with God is much greater because of Jesus than it was before the fall.
"God would never have allowed His first workmanship to be so scarred by sin if He had not planned to build a more magnificent structure out of its ruins. Because He intended to print man's happiness in the second edition with a more perfect type than the first, He used Christ as the only fit instrument to accomplish this design: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly' (John 10:10). He did not come to give the dead and damned a bare peace - naked life - but a more abundant life than man ever had before sin separated him from God."
In sum I think Gurnall is showing one way in just how God is ultimately glorified in the fall. Our relationship with God is much greater because of Jesus than it was before the fall.
hehe - okay I'll look for the thread...
