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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
...my theory why God created man... at the beginning, we were already with God in spirit form. He knew us and we knew Him. I believe after Satan and his minion were thrown out, our Father and Creator called us together and told us He had an assignment for us. (Remember: many are CALLED but few are chosen.)
I believe He told us this mission He had was to sent us to earth. We were going to be given a body. Our memories for the most part would be erased. We would suffer but would be rewarded greatly... Whosoever volunteered was chosen for this assignment.
Many were called to this assignment but few (?) were chosen. I believe we all have a longing to return to our Creator. The Word of God tells us we are not of this world. We love GOD because He first loved us! He chose us before the foundation of the world and He knew us before we were formed in our mother's womb.
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God knew us, and if Adam and Eve had gotten to the tree of life, they would have remembered their Father, and refused Satan's wiles. But they were ignorant, and took the tree of blindness, and were cut off from life. But when we hear the name of Jesus we "remember" our Father. Think of Jesus' parable of the prodigal son. He "comes to himself", i.e. he remembers his status as a man with a rich father. He is not actually a pig!! Hooray!! Likewise king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who after crawling around on all fours and eating grass like an ox, it was said that he "recovered his senses" and returned to his kingship.
So we, who were lost and alienated, were returned to our Father in heaven when we believed into Jesus Christ. He opened the door for the lost sheep to return. John's gospel commentary in chapter 11 says that Jesus would die "...not only for that nation [Israel] but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one".
We were the children of God but we bacame scattered, like wild animals, biting and devouring each other, and Jesus' great sacrifice opened the way for our return, together in triumphant love, to our Father in heaven. Yes, that did entail being "born again", but how could we be dead, except we had first lived? Remember what the father says in the parable in Luke 15: "My son was dead and now lives". (v. 31) The prodigal son was a son, but a dead son. Then he came back to life: he was born again.
Like CMW, just my thoughts here. But read Origen the Alexandrian scholar if you want to see some confirmation and development of this idea, from someone who was there before us, and who had access to material now lost.