Why is there sin in the world? and what's the solution if there is?
"All the Word put under sin" from the Psalms
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God created a very complex situation -and placed inexperienced beings within it (the complex situation includes the design/state of the beings themselves) -who had to deal with it.
Law is based on the complexities and particulars of the overall situation.
"Sin is the transgression of the law"
Sin HAPPENS because there is a TEMPORARY difference between what we SHOULD do and what we ACTUALLY do.
That is because we are NEW -INEXPERIENCED -IMPERFECT.
God created the particular situation in which we exist -which allowed sin to exist. The concept of sin has always existed/applied -simply because situation has always existed -but God created our particular situation.
Rom 5:12Therefore, just as
sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. 13
For sin was in the world before the Law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
(The above actually hints at a world which did not begin when Adam did, but...) Sin is said to have entered the world through Adam because Adam was given rules to follow -and did not follow them.
If he had not been given rules to follow -which also requires the ability to understand the concept and make conscious decisions, sin would technically exist if his actions were not correct based on the overall situation, but he would not have been held accountable (though if he saw his own actions to be less than good, his own conscience could hold him accountable).
LAW CAN ALSO BE BASED ON PLANS FOR CHANGES TO BE MADE TO THE OVERALL SITUATION.
Therefore, there is law based on the present overall situation -and specific law/orders based on intended changes.
The latter -living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God at any given time, and not only the ten commandments -is why judgments under the law (such as foods to be eaten and not eaten, the death penalty, etc.) have changed over time -though the law has not. For example... one commandment says to not kill -another says to not commit adultery -yet God had people kill others who were caught in the act of adultery. In that case, the first commandment superseded the others -and God was responsible because he gave the order.
One reason he gave that particular order was to literally remove sin/sinners from Israel while he prepared Israel for the new covenant -under which sin could be removed from the sinner in both letter and spirit -and under which people were not to carry out that death penalty.
God gave Adam a SPECIFIC order -not to eat perfectly good food from a particular tree. By eating it, he broke the first commandment.
That order -and the situation which surrounded it (allowing Satan to interact) -were based on God's plan to give "the creation over to futility" "in hope".
The purpose for that was to begin to eradicate sin forever -to make us all perfect, eventually.
There is a huge universe/creation out there -which we will inherit after initially inheriting the Earth -but, for now, we are limited to this one particular rock.
God is intentionally focusing on sin within a manageable and relatively closed environment.
Sin was a thing -it was always going to be a thing -until we learned to MASTER IT.
So -God created a situation which would allow us to master it as quickly as possible.
As horrific as history has been and will be for a little while longer, it is nothing compared to what could have been otherwise.
Each individual is generally given less than 120 years of personal experience -and mankind -since Adam -about 6,000 years.
Then -after a bit more following the next thousand years -it's DONE -FINISHED.
Gen 4:7
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; you are its object of desire, but you must master it.”
Zeph 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination
is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation,
even all my fierce anger: for
all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
9For
then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
Rev 21:4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for
the former things are passed away. 5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold,
I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6And he said unto me,
It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
