Image courtesy Mike McCune (CC BY 2.0 license) on Flickr. 2 Corinthians 5:19 …God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself… God made Man upright (Ecclesiastes 7:29), and very good (Genesis 1:31), but Man chose to sin against the Lord in heart, mind and in action. The first instruction of love – that man was not allowed to eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil – given in the Garden of Eden was rejected with consequences. Our decisions affect those around us. God, being consistent with His nature, has to punish sin. Even as He had to protect the purity of the garden and future generations,…