THE INTERTRINITARIAN LOVE OF GOD COMMUNICATED TO THE ELECT THROUGH UNION WITH THE GOD-MAN IN HIS OVERCOMING THE FALL Thomas Booher Doctrine of Salvation May 2, 2013 Why did man fall? For the reformed, it is because God in some sense planned for man to fall. For others, it is because God foresaw what Adam and Eve would choose, and He decided to let them choose rebellion. In either case, the greatest theological problem remains the goodness of God in light of the existence of sin. How can they co-exist? Free will does not satisfy as an answer because God knew beforehand that man would choose to rebel and could have chosen not to create man. In so doing He would not have violated man’s free will because there would have been no men. The implication is that if God went through with creating man knowing he would rebel against Him, God either had a good purpose for doing so, or He was somehow constrained t
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