“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist” – Verbal Kint, “The Usual Suspects” The seed plot of the entire Bible centers around a war between those who support God’s plan, (and the redemption of man from the effects of Original Sin), and those who oppose it. The Bible…
Toward the end of our look at the First Dispensation, I mentioned that the curse God pronounced on the serpent in Eden was the seed plot of the entire Biblical narrative. “…And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you…
The Dispensations are God’s contrastive way of proving that His plan for humanity is right. Each dispensation allows man the opportunity to choose righteousness (God) on his own; outside of God’s plan. In the first three dispensations, God pretty much gave men a free hand to choose Him over themselves. God first gave them complete…
In the last post, we saw that the human government created by mystics is man’s comparative attempt to recreate the perfect paradise of Eden without God. However human government is doomed to failure for two primary reasons. First, perfection requires righteousness (the opposite of comparative thinking). Secondly, all human beings have Adam’s desire to rule,…
Man was originally made for Eden. And even though we fell from that position, we still long for the perfection of paradise. In fact, I contend that man’s intrinsic desire to return to an Eden-like existence is the primary motivation for our actions, (both good and evil), and the root source of the world’s miseries….