Imagine you were to come home from work one day and discover an inch of standing water in your living room — soaking your carpeting and staining all your furniture. Would you calmly stand there sifting through your mail, or would you stop whatever you were doing and try to stop the flood in your house? I suspect you would do the latter.
Likewise, imagine you were at home one day and your child came running into the house with blood gushing from a large cut in her head. Would you continue baking cookies, or would you immediately call 9-1-1? Again, I bet you would do the latter.
Serious problems demand urgent actions, right?
Well, not according to the Bible. According to the book of Genesis, Adam and Eve fell from grace by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, thereby corrupting their relationship with the god-of-the-Bible, not only for themselves, but for every one of their descendants: the entire human race. And what did the god-of-the-Bible do in response to this terrible event? Did He drop whatever He was doing and rush to find a solution? No, the god-of-the-Bible hummed and hawed for THOUSANDS OF YEARS before finally sending his son to fix the problem.
Excuse me, but why didn’t the god-of-the-Bible fix this awful problem sooner? Why didn’t the god-of-the-Bible send his son to EDEN, where the problem first began, to have a chat with ADAM and EVE? Why did the god-of-the-Bible delay for dozens of generations, waste time with the Ten Commandments (which He knew were doomed to fail), make the Jews wander in the desert for four decades, etc.? Why didn’t the god-of-the-Bible take urgent action to fix the urgent problem, right then and there in the garden of Eden? Why didn’t EVE mother the Son of God? If it was so critically important for the god-of-the-Bible to heal the rift that Adam and Eve had created, then why didn’t the god-of-the-Bible take more urgent action?
Apparently, the god-of-the-Bible so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son…he just wasn’t in any hurry to get around to doing it.
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