Featured Why did God Arrange the Fall?

A loaded question.
Arrange meaning what? God as the Creator is to be the cause of sin?

 

Everything that has and will ever take place is decreed/ordained by God for His glory. Not a single atom in the universe moves except as God has purposed for His glory.

 

8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: Eph 3

 

The true God is sinless and not responsible for the sin of of others.
James 1:13, . . . Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: . . .

 

Right, He plays Satan and the demons like a banjo string to do it....

 

1 Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

 

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Gen 1:2

When the above was the condition of the earth; Where was the great dragon, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan?

Where was Satan? What was God going to do about Satan?

Was man and death required for God's plan for Satan?

Rom 5:12 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested [like Adam], that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Heb 2:6,14 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through [the] death he might destroy him that had the power of [the] death, that is, the devil;

Did the devil have any works prior to Genesis 1:2?
Why was darkness in the face of the deep? Was the face of the deep also the face of the waters? What is all the waters on earth spoken of in the following V 6 Gen 1 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.?

Were the heavens of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water relative to verse 2 of Genesis 1, as stated in 2 Peter 3:5?

If the answer is yes and in IMHO I believe it is, what world of 2 Peter 3:6, world = system of order, configuration as Westcott and Hort translates kosmos, being overflowed with water, perished? Had the devil, Satan been busy before Genesis 1:2?

What is the day of the Lord relative to the above? Has it taken place? Are we in it now? Is it still future?


Before the foundation of the world how was God going to destroy the devil and his works? When was the foundation of the world, not the earth, the world, laid? Is it implied by the Holy Spirit that the world of 2 Peter 3:6 is different than the present world?

 

Sure it does. God ordained the fall of Adam for His glory. The cross was not an afterthought or a reaction by God - it was ordained by God from before the world began.

 

God did ordain the fall of man, or else He would not have purposed, before the world began, for Christ to die for the sins of those He chose to save from their sins.

 

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,


Why? This was done pre, "fall," correct? Why was Adam made a little lower than the angels? Adam the figure of him to come, why?

 

Not in any way.

I did no such thing.