Two Ways to Go...

God gave Man the way to relate to Him, that of offering a sacrifice so that they can be made clean and holy so that he approach God and God can fellowship with Man without compromising His character of absolute holiness. But Man wanted to come to God in their own terms or do not want to come God all. The first two children of Man name Cain and Abel illustrated this behavior. Cain wanted to come to God in his own terms so instead of offering animal with shed blood for his sins he offered fruits and crops harvested from his farm although he knows that what God requires is an animal. Abel on the other hand come into terms with God according to God's instruction. So God accepted the offering of Abel and rejected the offering of Cain. Remember God's formula? sin=death, there must be something or someone that must die so that sin will be canceled out and become holy and be made acceptable to God because God is a holy God and his holiness is absolute.
Cain became jealous and furious about this rejection. Instead of coming back to God with a right offering, he went to Abel and killed him. Oh! this is sad. He continued in this behavior until his heart was hardened and became rebellious. The next generations have continued to drift away from God until such time that all his desires are evil his heart's inclination are all going from bad to worst. God was very sad about what he saw. His enemy however is laughing from ear to ear, Satan and his demons are very active in ushering men to sin, he sow anger, lust, jealousy, love of material things and power, he entered man's culture, social. political and spiritual affairs in order to give glory to self and others except to God. Even the last good thing in the man, the conscience and moral values which is part of God's image was used to glorify self and use in pride that somehow they are better than others because they are so righteous in their own ways. This state of the Man is still very noticeable today.Can we blame Satan for this? No, no, when God created Man and the angels including those who revolted against Him, He created them with their own freedom of choice. The Angels have their freedom of choice so does the Man. Satan can influence Man but Man can choose not to follow, He can choose to obey God or not, therefore he can also choose to obey Satan or not. " What a freedom..." but also " what a responsibility"...