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ORIGINS --Provision --Opposition --Restoration
PROVISION
Life More Abundantly was originally provided for the first people in this world. (See CREATION.)
And
God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. --Genesis
1:28
OPPOSITION
These people were the ancestors of all mankind. They lost their dominion over the earth (life
more abundantly) to their adversary, the devil. He tricked them into betrayal by tempting them to disobey God's Word. And
he stole the right to be Lord over the earth so that he could usher in death and destruction. (See FALL.)
The Nature
of Mankind
As a result of Adam and Eve's sin of disobedience and betrayal, the nature of all of mankind, as their
descendants, is also sinful. So, a sinner's sinful actions and thoughts are a result of who he or she is in their spirit when
they are born into this world. (See MANKIND)
RESTORATION
The plan to restore our life more abundantly back
to us was set even from the beginning of the world. (See REDEMPTION.)
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the
world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on)
Him, shall not perish {die} (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life {life more abundantly, salvation}.
--John 3:16, AMP
An All-Inclusive Plan
This plan is for all of mankind -- jews, christians, agnostics,
atheists, muslims, hindi, witches & warlocks, satanists, etc. (See REDEMPTION.)
{God} will have all men to be
saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. --I Timothy 2:4-6
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