James Wilbur

Jacob, I am not in any way saying this about your question, it is a good and proper question, without questions and answers we do not learn. Colossians 2: 8-22 'See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ, a person has been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority, and in Christ your were (spiritually) circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the (sinful fleshly mind) by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Christ in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. Ephesians 2: 6 present tense When you were dead in your transgressions, sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ, having forgiven us all our sin, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us, (which is why Jesus the perfect One, who was sinless, had to come, and would pay the penalty we deserved and owed to God for sin, we could not do this ourselves because we are not without spot or blemish as long as we endure this sinful fleshly mind and body, thus believing in Him, the spotless Lamb of God we are saved into Him.) God has taken the certificate of debt owed to Him, having nailed it to the cross of Christ. When Christ had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Christ. Therefore, no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival a new moon or a Sabbath day, things which are a mere shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting self-abasement and the worship of angels, taking their stand on visions they have seen, inflated without cause by their (sinful) fleshly mind, and not holding to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by joints and ligaments, grows with a grown which is from God, (and not by mans sinful fleshly works, which will not be accepted by God.' Only belief and faith in God the Father and His Son, Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ will we be saved.)

From Jim Wilbur: Jacob, I am not in any way saying this about your question, it is a good and proper question, without questions and answers we do not learn. Colossians 2: 8-22 'See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ, a person has been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority, and in Christ your were (spiritually) circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the (sinful fleshly mind) by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Christ in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. Ephesians 2: 6 present tense When you were dead in your transgressions, sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ, having forgiven us all our sin, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us, (which is why Jesus the perfect One, who was sinless, had to come, and would pay the penalty we deserved and owed to God for sin, we could not do this ourselves because we are not without spot or blemish as long as we endure this sinful fleshly mind and body, thus believing in Him, the spotless Lamb of God we are saved into Him.) God has taken the certificate of debt owed to Him, having nailed it to the cross of Christ. When Christ had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Christ. Therefore, no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival a new moon or a Sabbath day, things which are a mere shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting self-abasement and the worship of angels, taking their stand on visions they have seen, inflated without cause by their (sinful) fleshly mind, and not holding to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by joints and ligaments, grows with a grown which is from God, (and not by mans sinful fleshly works, which will not be accepted by God.' Only belief and faith in God the Father and His Son, Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ will we be saved.)

Adam sinned and because of Adams acquired sin nature, all mankind Romans 5: 12-19 was imputed with the sin nature of Adam, it passed down through all generations. Galatians 2: 1-3. All those whom God chose Ephesians 1: 4 and God came near to was spoken to by God, the ancient peoples who were given belief and faith i.e, Abraham Hebrews 11, the rest did not and if dying in their sin, the will be eternally separated from God. Hebrews 11: 1-3; John 3: 27; 15: 5b; Philippians 2: 13

Why did God throw Lucifer, i.e. Satan down where man could be tempted, and why tempt man?