Christian faith

The Cross Was Always Going to Be Needed

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Why did God create humanity when He knew Adam would sin? I have begun to think that the question itself starts too late. If God chose to create genuinely free beings with finite minds, capable of thinking, reasoning, loving and choosing, then the Cross was always going to be needed. From Lucifer to Eve, Adam and Cain, Scripture reveals the consequences of created freedom — and behind it all stands the Lamb, already in the purpose of God before the foundation of the world.

More Than Sacrifice

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In Hosea 6, two verses sit side by side and illuminate one another with remarkable clarity. God declares that He desires faithful love rather than sacrifice and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Then, almost immediately, He says that Israel, like Adam, has violated the covenant. Suddenly the problem is seen in a different light. Israel’s failure was not primarily ceremonial but relational. Like Adam before her, she had not merely broken rules; she had betrayed the God who loved her. Yet Hosea’s message does not end with betrayal. The God who exposes the wound is the God who intends to heal it, and the story ultimately points beyond both Adam and Israel to Jesus Christ, the faithful Man who succeeds where all others have failed.