Decoding Our Past, Undestanding the Present, the Future...?

Even after men chose a self-centered life/sin, God did not stop loving him. Just as the effect of love is life and happiness, the effect of choosing a self-centered life is death: “The wages/consequence of sin is death”. How that he was not dead? Because Jesus chose to come and die in his/our place. Somehow He was able to pay the price for our mistakes, to take the fall for us. And in the virtue of God’s unselfish act, Adam was still able to breathe. This is the reason for which even people who rejects God are able to breathe, think, walk, eat even say/write things against Him, do things against Him, and hurt in a way or another other fellow beings. Why is He allowing them to do these things? Because He wants them so badly to enjoy love/Him so that He gives them new opportunities to turn to the original way of living.

God tried to use different people as teachers for the others, people which can tell them how wonderful He is. But most of the people didn’t listen. Then He chose Abraham and through him the ancient Jewish people but even they failed to fulfill this mission. Instead of concentrating upon God they concentrated upon the tools to be used in describing God. They forgot that God is love and they started to represent Him as a deity thirsty for blood, as a cold, unsympathetic judge. And their life became similar to their interpretations. All the other people were pagans, dogs, unworthy of their attention. God tried to bring them back using all kind of means but they were stubborn in their choice: we want a self-centered life and not one based on giving. Happiness comes from getting as much as possible, they said.

One day God Himself, in Jesus Christ, came to live on our planet. And not as a king or a ruler or a leader but in such a humble state! And why? For us! For you and me! To show us how wonderful God is, to show us what love is, to show us what we can become if we choose to. But He was rejected. Man didn’t want this kind of life! He didn’t want humbleness but greatness among the rulers of the earth; he didn’t want gentleness but revenge; he didn’t want to live for his neighbor but he wanted his neighbor to live for him. He rejected love and chose again selfishness/sin which brings death. He rejected happiness and chose misery.

What did Jesus do after all this?