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Adam would always have needed to be changed from his fleshly body, as God decreed the fall.

It is only by man falling into sin that he could then be redeemed by having the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to him. The state of innocence in which Adam was created can't hold the flicker of a candle to being made perfectly righteous in Christ.

 

To further clarify my point about the righteousness of the Creator being greater than the righteousness of the creature, I quote from Robert Hawker's The Poor Man's Morning and Evening Portions, on December 21, Morning discussing Psalms 69:4:

God's glory was taken away by sin; and consequently, man's happiness also. For when Adam sinned, he robbed God of his glory, and robbed himself and all his posterity of God's image, and with it all happiness. Nay, my soul, thou hast done the same, in every renewed act of disobedience. And in breaking the divine law thou hast justly lost the divine favour. And hath Jesus, all precious Jesus, restored all these? Yes, blessings on his name, he hath! And what renders it ten-fold more gracious, he hath so done it as never to be lost any more. By his finished work of salvation he hath restored to God his glory. And by his obedience and death, as our Surety, he hath restored to man his happiness. The favour of God we lost by sin; Jesus hath restored it, by justifying us in his righteousness. The image of God we lost by rebellion; Jesus hath restored to us this image, in sanctifying us by his holiness. So that every way, and in all things, Jesus hath made up the breach; and the poor sinner who is led by grace to believe in Jesus, stands more complete and secure now; than before the fall. For if Adam had never sinned, nor his children in him, yet, after all, their righteousness before God would have been but the righteousness of creatures. Whereas now, in Jesus, the believer stands accepted and secured in the righteousness of the Creator. Hail, then, thou Almighty Restorer of our fallen nature! In thee, Lord, would my poor soul triumphantly say, "have I righteousness and strength; even to thee shall men come; and all that believe in thee shall never be ashamed nor confounded, world without end."

 

Paul’s audience, (his “brethren”, in 1 Corinthians 15), were living in a world seeped in sin. They would have been fully acquainted with corruption and death.

So to answer your question,
Had Adam not sinned that passage might never have been written.
God created humans so they might commune with him.

But as Ken noted, God’s purpose ultimately included man’s fall from innocence and he purposed an even higher position for mankind, that we might be called sons of God.

Rob

 

Speculative theology... no solid answers

Was Adam created with or without the quality of eternal life?

We can only speculate.

But if mankind was created mortal, then there would have been a need.​

Rob

 

Zero Biblical basis for any such decree.

 

Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.

Daniel 4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

 

I would also like to add this writing from Samuel Richardson on the subject:

"God willed and decreed his glory and man's happiness, therefore he willed and decreed the means to it. The end and moving cause of his willing sin to be, is for his glory, for which cause it was necessary for sin to be. If sin had not been, how should the goodness of God, in giving man eternal life in glory, have appeared, his love in sending Christ to die? If there had not been sin, there had been no need of Christ's coming, nor of his death and righteousness. Most of the great works of God in this world, and that to come, have dependence or reference to sin. How should we have lived by faith, exercised the fruits of the spirit, or have any happiness or glory in the world to come if there had been no sin? He who willeth the end, willeth those things which are necessarily referred to that end; taking away sin was decreed before the world, therefore the being of sin was decreed. — Christ's death was determined before the world, for the end of Christ was to restore Adam's fall: if Adam had not fallen, there had been no need of a Christ to restore him. The saints were chosen to life before the world; choice hath reference to the fall, therefore the fall was decreed.

If the will of man had been the first and chief cause of the being of sin, then the will of man should be the cause of God's will, and so man shall be the original cause of the salvation of himself, and so much the cause of it, that without his will it could not have been; and so the determination of God what to do, shall not be from himself, but from the will of man, which is contrary to Ephesians 1:11. If man should will sin before God willed it, then shall the will of God depend and wait upon the will of man:—as if God should say, if man will sin, then will I will his salvation: and if God should first will to send Christ to save man, and leave it to man's will and power whether he shall fall or not, then it was possible for man to stand, and so to frustrate the decree of God; for if man had not sinned, God's decree of sending Christ had been void and of none effect. Mr. Perkins saith, God decreed the fall of Adam: if the fall was decreed, and if man had power to stand, then he had power to frustrate God's decree, which no wise man will affirm. And then that saying, that Adam had power to keep the law is without truth ; if he had, consider Ezekiel 18:2-4. God willeth all things well, he sinneth not, nor can he sin, because he is under no law. God commands men to keep the law, which no man can do; he commands men to think no vain thoughts, and not to sin. We cannot avoid some vain thoughts, and in many things we sin all, Christ saith, No man can come to me except the Father draw him, John 6:37, John 6:44. If they be drawn, they come: draw us, and we will run after thee, Song of Solomon 1:4. If I put sufficient strength to move the earth, motion must needs follow; when men sin, they are beguiled, enticed, deceived, drawn away; they like men have transgressed, Hosea 6:7.

We are to distinguish between that which follows a doctrine in its own nature, and that which follows by accident, or rather, that a corrupt heart draws from it, and is not from the nature and working of the doctrine itself. It is strange to consider, men are so set upon the Popish principle to be saved for their works, that they count all profaneness which crosses their way. Some have burned the Bible, and Dr. Crispe's book of Salvation by Christ alone; the treatise of Mr. Archer, late of All-hallowes, London, entitled Comfort to Believers against their Sins and Sorrow, was burned by the hangman. The same spirit is alive to burn this also; I expect nothing better from such as are not taught of God; they condemn those things which they know not, and think they do God service when they persecute the truth and the professors of it."

 

Does not show God decreed the fall.

 

Yes, it does. The Creator is absolutely totally sovereign over His Creation.

 

Saying God did what He did not do does not make it so.

 

Denying that God is sovereign over His Creation does not make God any less sovereign than He is. We don't get to tell our Creator what He can do based on our terribly flawed, terribly corrupted judgment.

Personally, I am thankful, so thankful, that God is absolutely totally sovereign. I would not want to live in a world in which anything happens that He did not decree, as that would leave me to the whim of the rest of fallen creation.

 

False accusations of denial of His sovereignty doesn't justify making God the author of sin.

 

When people say what you wrote, they are judging God, their Creator, by their own flawed, corrupted human standards. As Vincent Chung put it in his Systematic Theology:

"There is no divine law that says God would be wrong if he were to be the cause of evil. Why, then, do men assume that it would be evil for God to be the author of sin? What law would God transgress? He would transgress the law of men, or what men have imposed upon him to define what a righteous God must or must not do. This is the sinister truth behind the religious tradition that says God is not the author of sin, for if he were to be such, it would mean that he has transgressed a law that men have declared against him. The necessary conclusion is that the doctrine that God is not the author of sin, or that it is blasphemy and heresy to say that he is, is itself the real blasphemy and heresy. Unless God is the author of sin and evil, he is not completely sovereign, and he is not God. Therefore, to deny that God is the author of sin and evil is to deny God."

(emphasis mine)

 

God is Holy and Sovereign in all His ways. Proverbs 9:10, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding."

 

Amen!