What did God do at the fall of humanity?
Michelangelo Bounarotti - The Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve - detail (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) " God sent him forth from the garden of Eden , to till the ground from whence he was taken." ( Genesis 3:23 ) What did God do at the Fall ? The answer may surprise you. First, God rested. After God completed His work of creating the universe, He ceased from creating ( Genesis 2:2-3 ). This rest continued throughout all of history, right up to this very day ( Hebrews 4:3 ). Thus, when mankind fell into sin, God didn't start His creation work over, as if there was a flaw in His original purposes and designs. Rather, He knew the Fall would happen and responded by continuing His cessation from creating, fully knowledgeable of what was transpiring and fully in control. Second, God exercised perfect justice. The punishments at the Fall perfectly fit the crimes committed. For example, the serpent sinned by exalting himself above his created place, and God p...