The Relentless Mercy of God towards Miserable, Self- deceived and Puffed up Humans.
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son… Hebrews 1:1-2. This verse has many times brought me close to tears; not tears of sorrow, not tears of pain but tears of awe and wonder. I am, most assuredly, not an advocate of baseless feelings. Therefore, the base for such emotions is the relentless mercy of God towards miserable, self- deceived and puffed up humans. Humans that find any reason to oppose him. In order to see this clearly, let us start from the beginning, shall we? Adam was given a rule at the Garden of Eden not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil. The rule followed with a consequence that they “shall SURELY die” (Genesis 1:17). He eventually ate the fruit that he was forbidden. After God had confronted them for their sin, He just punished them and let them live for a day, then another and another, that Adam lived for up to 800 years (Have in mi...