“God is love.” 1 John 4:8.
The suffering and wickedness in this world do not come from His hands, but from our great adversary, whose constant purpose has been to corrupt humanity and weaken and distort our abilities. Yet God has not abandoned us to the ruin brought about by the fall.

We belong to Him—we are His purchased possession. The human family cost God and His Son, Jesus Christ, an infinite price. The Redeemer of the world, the only-begotten Son of God, through His perfect obedience to the law and through His spotless life and character, reclaimed what was lost in the fall and made it possible for humanity to obey that holy law of righteousness that Adam transgressed.

Christ did not give up His divinity in order to take on humanity; rather, He united humanity with divinity. In His human life, He fulfilled the law on behalf of the entire human race. The sins of all who accept Him were placed upon Him, and He fully met the demands of God’s justice. God did not create evil—He created only what was good and in harmony with His own character. But Satan was not willing to simply understand God’s will and follow it.

His restless curiosity drove him to seek knowledge that God had never intended for him to have. Evil, sin, and death were not created by God; they arose from disobedience, which began with Satan. The knowledge of evil that now exists in the world entered through Satan’s deceptive cunning.

These lessons are difficult and costly, yet people will learn them—though many will never accept that it is a blessing to remain ignorant of a certain kind of knowledge that springs from restless desires and unholy ambitions. The descendants of Adam are just as inquisitive and presumptuous as Eve was when she sought knowledge that God had forbidden.

They obtain an experience and a kind of knowledge that God never intended them to have, and the outcome will be—just as it was for our first parents—the loss of their Eden home. When will people learn what has been demonstrated so clearly before them? “God is love.” 1 John 4:16.

God’s very nature and His law are expressions of love. They always have been and always will be. “the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity” Isaiah 57:15. —the One whose “His ways are everlasting.” Habakkuk 3:6. —never changes. With Him “with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” James 1:17.

Every display of God’s creative power reveals His infinite love. His sovereignty carries with it an abundance of blessings for every being He has created. The entire story of the great conflict between good and evil—from its beginning in heaven to the final defeat of rebellion and the complete removal of sin—stands as a testimony to God’s constant, unchanging love.