There were two trees in the Eden narrative. We’ve looked at the Tree of Life in the last two posts, now we need to examine the other, more infamous tree – the Tree of the Knowledge of God and Evil. Eating the fruit of that tree led to Original Sin, and death. Why would gaining…
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…
We’ve been examining how the dispensations are God’s contrastive process of showing how His plan of righteousness is the correct one. In the last post, we saw that Adam and Eve failed in the first dispensation primarily because they chose to justify themselves over God when they committed a wrong act. You can’t escape the…
The First Cause of the physical universe is causeless, supernatural, transcendent, and eternal. The First Cause of the physical universe can only be described in non-physical terms…because the First Cause is non-physical. This shouldn’t actually be all that surprising, because when contemplating the answer to “What’s the point?” (the question that started this whole thing),…