So, what was in the mind of God in the beginning? Why did God create humanity?
There was always a Plan. That Plan was and is ADOPTION.
For all eternity even before the foundation of the world, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are enjoying and savoring the sweetness of their eternal communion. But that wasn’t enough. They also wanted to INCLUDE "others" into that relationship.
But who could that "others" be? Angels? Animals? Plants?
Then God said " Let Us make man in our image, according to our likeness..." Genesis 1:26
Of all His creation... God created human beings in God’s own image so that humanity could enter into, participate, be included into the fellowship of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. "He (God) PREDESTINED us (You and Me) to adoption through Jesus Christ to Himself according to the kind intention of His will." Ephesians 1:5
We, each and every human being, were created to be adopted - that was and is the original and only plan. How can this be true? How could this be accomplished? The answer for us all is… through Jesus Christ. Just like children in the orphanage, we could not decide on our own free will to volunteer to be adopted, it is through and only through Jesus Christ. How could Jesus Christ accomplish such a feat? Is it some act that Jesus will complete? Does it have something to do with Jesus’ person and being? The answer is it happens through Jesus by his INCARNATION. Our being adopted is because of the PERSON and BEING of Christ. He is both God and Man. Jesus became fully God and fully human. In him all humanity is vicariously represented and substituted. Just as we believe that Adam and Eve brought about the fall of humanity, Jesus returns us into full communion with the Triune God. Jesus not only came to forgive our sins, but Jesus also came so that we may be united with the Triune God. Jesus came for OUR adoption.
Most people fail to understand this because they look only on the work of Christ, at what Jesus did on the cross. People should really try hard to see who Jesus is as the Second Adam reversing the Fall and declaring that we are included through His relationship and communion to the His Father and the Holy Spirit.
