God is and always will be – He is eternal and he is perfect love. His character is without any faults or defects and evil cannot exist within him. It is impossible for him to lie so therefore everything he speaks is pure truth. In fact, the very words he speaks obey him and become a force of power unto themselves. The bible says that by His words He created the heavens and the earth and everything in it.

   After creating the earth God created man and woman to live on it. He gave them full reign over the whole earth and told them to make it beautiful. God’s original plan for the earth was for it to be a place where He and man could coexist. Man was created in the likeness of God – which means that he was able to approach God in the same pureness of heart as God (relate to him) and they were a family. Instead of being content with all the goodness God had given them and trusting in His perfect design, they believed that they could improve on it  and actually wanted to become more like God himself. They essentially rejected God’s way in favor of their own “new way” and rebelled against him which resulted in catastrophic consequences. Man now was separated from God and could no longer have that deep relationship they once shared. The Family was broken and man was now ruled by evil that resulted in death. God never intended it to stay that way, and from the very beginning he promised that one day they would be a family again. 

   Now, because God is perfect love he provided many opportunities for mankind to come back to the original plan. God chose one family – the Jewish nation Israel to be a blessing to the whole earth and help restore God’s original intent. But that family continued in the same footsteps of the first family and turned away from his patient love. In every failed attempt by mankind God never stopped promising that one day our relationship would be restored and evil destroyed. 

   Then, at just the right time God himself came in the person of Jesus Christ. He laid down all rights to operate as God while he lived as a man among us – showing us the way to restoration. Jesus lived perfectly and walked in pure love while reflecting the true image of God. He laid down his life by receiving the full penalty of our rebellion and died as an innocent sacrifice on the cross. Evil thought that it had won by killing God, but on the third day he rose from the dead – essentially buying back the rights to earth and providing a way for all mankind to enter back into fellowship with God through belief in Jesus. One day he will return to this earth as the conquering King, completely destroying evil and restoring the Kingdom back to its original glory. We shall live with God once again as a family on the new earth just like in the beginning.