No Design Flaw

You have a tree.
You have a car.
You have rain.
You have a road.
There is nothing wrong with the tree- it's as perfect as any tree can be.
There is nothing wrong with the car- it's as perfect as any car can be.
There is nothing wrong with the rain- it's as perfect as any rain can be.
There is nothing wrong with the road- it's as perfect as any road can be.

The rain causes slick roads causing the car to hit the tree.

We call this an accident because the tree isn't at fault, the car isn't at fault, the rain isn't as fault, the road isn't at fault. An accident. Something happened without any intention for it to happen.


You have a person with an oil can.
You have a car.
You have a road.

The person DELIBERATELY chooses to put oil on the road. The car slides on the oil and crashes. It is not an accident. There was a choice made to put oil on the road.


The person with an oil can was fine - nothing wrong until they made the choice to use the oil for something deliberately wrong.


There doesn't HAVE to be a design flaw for something to go wrong.


Sin wasn't an accident. Sin was a choice. A choice to disobey was made. Some argue the design flaw exists and that design flaw was humanity being given the power of choice. Imagine having NO power of choice. Seriously. Some people can imagine that more than others. Slaves can imagine it perfectly when they have their every move dictated to them by someone else. Do you like even the idea of having your every move dictated to you? Do you remember as a child telling your parents not to tell you what to do? Maybe you can't, but do you remember thinking and wishing they wouldn't tell you what to do all the time? You wanted independence. You wanted to be able to do for yourself. You wanted to make your own choices.

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People bring up the question- what's to stop sin from entering the world again, what's to stop someone from choosing to sin again after we are taken to heaven with Christ at His second coming?


Every heart will be tried and every human being will have to make a choice and that choice will be reflected in their lives. When Christ comes again and redeems His people from a sin-filled world to bring them into everlasting life in a sin-less existence everyone of His people will have made their choice.


This is why we live now, this is why we are tried in the fire of life, this is why our testing grounds are so harsh now. This life we live now reveals the choice we make between good and evil, between God and Satan, between sinlessness and sinning, between eternity and death. The choice we make now in this the harshest of proving grounds will determine our stance on sinning and being able to live sinless. Christ died to give us this choice.


We will choose sin or not sinning and it will be a choice that we have so thoroughly made that not even the idea of introducing sin into our new sinless existence will ever cross our minds. Yes, we will always have our freedom of choice and God will know our hearts and know whether we would be forever and always content in a sinless existence.


Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.


Our choices- our daily choices determine the fruit of our doings.


By the grace and mercy of our loving Savior, by His righteousness may we be tried and not found wanting. May we be tried and found to have hearts created clean and new by Christ, hearts that hate sin and love the righteousness of our Savior.


There will be no more sin, ever. The choice is ours individually. Our Lord will not give eternal life to anyone who loves sin. To love sin is to love the separation it brings from God. If we love being separated from God we will never choose eternal life. We must understand that each and every sin we commit has the power to separate us from God. God would not have us desire separation from Him, He is our Creator. If we desire separation we will inherit eternal death, eternal and everlasting without any end, forever and ever and ever death, death's endless sleep-- non-existence.


Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.


Believeth- an active, living faith in daily choosing to follow the only begotten Son of God, believing that only through Him and His righteousness by His grace and mercy are we saved and believing it always, living in that belief.


Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. - Mark 9:24


Amen