MichaelH
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Well, I'm not clear about the serpent seed doctrine, but was it not God's plan to have Jesus crucified? Lucifer just wasn't in on the plan or he would have done everything to stop it. And I agree, no serpent seed in the line of David. But I would have to say that when God took human form, it was that of a man. And I feel a bit silly saying it, but I do think of God as a He.
Rofl - I know. Whoever heard of females with authority! (surreptitious thwak to Michael)
I was reading Kenneth Copelands book "The blessing of the Lord makes rich"
In the book he said God's plan was that Adam succeed and dominate the earth. God would then reveal his son to man to live with us and all live happily ever after.
God does not plan failures, ever. It's those He made that creates failures and why he sent his word to heal us and deliver us from OUR destruction.
However........ For some odd reason Kenneth later on in the book said. "God knew Adam would blow it and before the foundation of the World had already planned Jesus to come."
This is a doctrine of foreknowledge (Arminism)
Kenneth just contradicted what He said at the start of the book. He did it because it's just a doctrine everyone believes and I don't think He caught what he said by the Holy Spirit at the start of the book.
we all know things in part.
There is zero scripture that denotes God' planned from the start to have to crucify His son.
some use the verse in Peter (Jesus ordained before the foundation of the World) but that is not what the verse means.
Remember, God "Found" iniquity in Satan. It was not put there by God or planned by God. He found it, and he found it in the Garden where Satan put the nail in his coffin. We have no other scripture proving Satan had crossed the line until this point.
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
(Eze 28:13-15)
Satan in the Garden of Eden and busted by God for messing with His man Adam.
That tells us it was not God's plan for Adam to fail, but to bless Adam and have the original plan of being fruitful and multiply filling the Earth.
Gen 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth
The plan was that the Blessing be on them. Adam removed that blessing by listening to Eve and the devil.