The Cross Was Always Going to Be Needed

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.

“This Is My Body” — The Bread That Speaks of Creation, The Curse, and Christ

Bread does not begin in human effort, but in divine gift. The life we now live is not our own, but Christ in us—received, not achieved—sustaining us now and into eternity. In that light, how should we receive the bread at holy communion?