“Saving?. . .from who, from what?” somebody used to ask me. Somebody who did not know the consequences of our sins because some people think all of those are something normal. Yes they are normal. In a home where everybody is sick, it is very common to see a bottle of medicine laying around but that is not normal in one where no one is ever sick; yet that doesn’t exist NOW because we ALL get sick. Why? Because we inherited that from our progenitor who decided, when prompted, to try something forbidden that would “open eyes” according to someone who was supposed to be under the man’s rule (Genesis 1.26), and sinned by disobeying God’s order. That’s why we are ALL sinners . . . for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3.23). So I would say NONE of us are clean.
We, the people of today, certainly cannot tell the difference for we have not ever lived it, but our progenitors who chose to sin did realize the change of their stay in the world and how their children would suffer, as a consequence, as we do now. Anything that we now consider a bother did not exist before sin, yet this gave way to the Curse (Genesis 3.14-19). The couple had to leave Paradise and live like sinners until death (which they didn’t know before). That’s how the deterioration of everything started until things got intolerant. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth (like today’s). . .He was sorry that He had made man on the earth. . .and said: “I will blot out man from the face of the land, from man to animals, to creeping things and to birds from the sky for I am sorry I have made them.” (Genesis 6.5a-6a-7) He did away with everything for no one was worth saving. Only Noah found favor in His eyes for obedient. Yet after the Flood and the new Covenant blessing that came with the Rainbow (to remind us of the everlasting Covenant is from God, not man) and His sorrow for destroying everything on account of man, this one started sinning again, because men inherited death due to sin. From then on there came confusion of the languages after Babel (the tower man wanted to build to heaven to be famous) and they were scattered around the world.(When man dares to defy the Creator, drastic things happen) Nonetheless ever since, man has not stopped wanting to conquer “the world,” and today we are not different, because we are still sinners, therefore not worth living in peace. Generations passed and there came Abraham, a descendant of Shem son of Noah; father of the Arabs, the Jews and the three main religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
The first two Millennia ended. Not many behaved in accordance to God’s rules. At the very beginning it is said that God spoke to the people like when He asked Cain (son of Adam and Eve) why was he angry which is a result of sin, and that he should master it. Yet, Cain let his envy beat him so he killed his brother. Later on, God spoke to Noah and then to Abraham, to Joseph in dreams. Much later, in the second two Millennia He spoke to Moses, Samuel child, and some others like all the Prophets who prophesied about many things that happened then and also now, and some others that will happen in a near future. Now we are living the third two Millennia which started with the birth of Jesus, son of the virgin Mary as the Bible says and so many other things which reveal Jesus as the Messiah in God’s redeeming plan to make us worthy of living with Him forever and ever. That is why He came into this world. Today God speaks to us through His word: The Holy Bible. If we want to really know the truth we should study it, thoroughly.
We were probably not worth saving for our wickedness and weakness in our free will, but God in his everlasting Love and Mercy, having created us to His likeness, knew how to make us worthy in spite of them. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. (John 3.17)
That means that NO MATTER how wicked we had been in the past, if we decide we do not want to die eternally and live in goodness in the future we can repent and ask God, in the name of Jesus to cleanse us, and He will. All we have to do is believe and He will save us. His blood in the cross has already made us worthy of being saved. And we know we do not have to stand in trial before God when we die because we know what Jesus told Nicodemus:
He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has already been judged, because he has NOT believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3.18)
