There were two trees in the Eden narrative – the Tree of life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. One sustained life, the other brought death. In the last post, we saw that life is the ability to repair physically and spiritually. Physical life is in the blood, and spiritual life…
In the first dispensation, Adam and Eve were told that they should not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If they ate from that tree, the result (effect) of that action would be death. While the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil gets most of the attention in…
When we do wrong, we need some kind of justification to address our guilt-debt. Thinking contrastively about our wrongdoings can lead to righteousness. If instead we are comparative in our thinking, then we rationalize our wrongs or do something in order to justify ourselves. I call this Justification of Man. The actions we do to…
As an interlude to our examination of the first dispensation we’ve been looking at some of the terms that the Eden narrative introduced – the first being justification and in the last couple posts, the specific form known as “religion”. Religion consists of actions we engage in to justify our wrongs and/or pay our guilt…
Sorry folks, I just didn’t have the mental or temporal bandwidth to do a full blog post this week (in fact my posting regularity my be a bit sporadic for the next couple of months. Lots of stuff on my plate), but I wanted to put a little something up. Based on some reactions I…