Man had no claim on God. God created man in His on image, breathed in His nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. God placed him in a beautiful garden home, then God gave to him a beautiful wife, innocent and sinless. Of His own free will, man sinned against God; and of his own free will he sought to correct his sin. He did not call on God, but instead made a covering with his own hands to cover his shame; but God rejected that covering and drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. However before He drove them out, He Himself prepared coats for their naked bodies.

Since man deliberately and of his own free will went away from God, he had no claim on God whatsoever. Man could not compel God to provide a plan of salvation; therefore the entire provision of salvation from the beginning to the end is to God. God thought it, God wrought it, and God brought it. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself ( II Corinthians 5:19 ). All the blessings that come from God through the Lord Jesus Christ are the results of the work of God not man. All blessings received from God are by grace unmerited, unearned, undeserved, strictly and entirely the gift of of God. Paul makes it clear that man brought sorrow, death and destruction upon himself; but God in His grace and mercy provided One to take man's place.

But not as the offence so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one, many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the Gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to many. And not as it was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which received abundace of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ. Therefore as by the offence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous ( Romans 5:15 - 19 ).

God made it clear to Adam that the day he ate the forbidden fruit he would die. The wages of sin always has been and always will be death; but God provided the Gift to make it possible for sinners to live: For the wages of sinned is death, but the Gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ ( Romans 6:23 ). God's unspeakable Gift, His only begotten Son, makes it possible for those of us who were without strength, without God, dead in trespasses and sin, and without hope, to become sons of God.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare die. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement ( Romans 5:6 - 11).

Through God's unspeakable Gift to us - His only begotten Son, crucified, buried and risen - we are partakers of the inheritance of the saints. This could have been possible only through God's provision. Man could never had provided a gift that God would have accepted for our sins. There is absolutely no gift that would atone for our sin against the Holy God who created us ( Colossians 1: 12-19 ).