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Originally Posted by OBW
But that is not what your verse says. It does have the word purpose in it.
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Yet there was a fallen mankind because God willed it to be so. Man did not fall accidentally or without God's foreknowledge.
Vincent Word studies says:
"Paul puts the beginnings of salvation in God's purpose before the time of the world (1 Corinthians 2:7; 1 Peter 1:20); and Christ's participation in the saving counsels of God prior to time, goes with the Pauline doctrine of Christ's preexistence."
We could say that God created us to be objects of His salvation, before we were ever created, before Adam and Eve fell. It was all pre-planned and foreknown by God.