Hi connie,
Good to see you here. I've been feeling pretty non-spiritual lately, so have not posted here.

Good questions you ask though.
My thoughts on what you ask is this:
When we sin, we distance ourselves from God. We step away from what we were meant to be.
In God there is no sin, so it is not that He moves away from us because we sin.
It is that we voluntarily step away from Him.

In the Old testament, when a sin is done, there is a price to pay for it.
Often a sacrifice (a perfect lamb, pidgeon or bull.)
This redeems the sin and makes our spirital relationship right with God again.
It restores the relationship between the individual and God.

Jesus gave himself as a sacrifice for all sins for everyone.
That we may only believe in him and our sins are already paid for by his sacrifice.
Our individual relationship with God is rectified, redeemed.

We have always had our own judgment and freewill.  From the time of Adam and Eve.


Hope that helps. Those are just my thoughts, anyone else may have different thoughts.

Take care

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