In the beginning, God creates us. Not for an experimental puropse, but He wants to love us by creating us. It’s because He cannot found something that can receive (in this case receive means to have a container) His love. It’s the reason that He creates us, the human! He wants to love us, so He knows that He must creates someone that can match Him, someone that can understand His love! He creates us!
In the beginning, Adam and Eve was live in a very happy condition. They can communicate with God everytime, freely! But after Genesis chapter 3, where Adam and Eve fallen in sin, they lost the relationship with God! That’s not because God is too strict, but that’s because Adam and Eve cannot live in a level that He wants them to live.
After the fall of mankind, they must live in suffer. I’m not talking about a torture or a famine or a poor condition, but i am talking about mankind cannot reach their purpose of life. It’s because they lost their relationship with God. They become to live without focus. They live freely. You can see Sodom and Gomorrah, city that God forbid so much. He banish them!
In that condition, He still love human. He wants to renew the relationship through a covenant with human! A covenant means promise. This covenant live frome generation to generation, from Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Israel.
Through Moses, He gave his laws. To not kill each other, to not want’s else’s belongings, and many other. The most important thing is to not have other god beside Him! But the Hebrew cannot maintain this promise. They broke the covenant. They have many other god. We know ‘baal’ (in Indonesian languange), also Asytoret and many other gods. gods that praised by the native of ‘kanaan’.
Israel cannot live in the covenant, and they break the covenant. And God punish them! He destroy their kingdom and scatter them to every place in the world…
(taken from my primitive blog at friendster, 09-16-2006 at 05:54 AM)