The Solitude of God

Exodus 15:11:

“Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods?

Who is like You, glorious in holiness,

Fearful in praises, doing wonders?”

We, as humans, cannot survive on our own. We need others even for our conception, let alone our birth, survival, etc. God, however, is completely self-sufficient. He is also solitary in so many more ways. “Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?” (Exodus 15:11).

God Glorified Through The Fall

Romans 5:20-21

“Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

The fall of man was decreed and foreknown by God. He had known from all eternity that He would display His perfect attributes on an imperfect and defiled earth (Acts 15:18). But not only did He know but He also foreordained everything that was to happen (Ephesians 1:11). According to Peter, God decreed that Adam would fail the test of the fruit tree. He says in his first epistle that Christ’s death for sin was “foreordained before the foundation of the world” (1 Peter 1:19-20).  It is obvious, therefore, that God ordained the fall into sin. It was His will. But why did He do so?