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Man was originally made for Eden.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….
In the last few posts, we have been examining faith. Generally speaking, faith is the willingness to rely on something that we do not have full knowledge of. Biblically speaking, faith is the expectation of something good, from a source or object that is not fully known, based on some previously validated knowledge and/or experience…
God has all the knowledge in existence. In order to fully know God we would have to have all the knowledge in existence. But since we don’t, we can only believe in God by faith. And as we saw in the last post, faith in God can be considered reasonable faith because it is based…
This week, we conclude our examination of the first dispensation. I will be the first to admit that this series went on a LOT longer than I had originally planned – not only because I had to take a break from posting for a couple of months, but also in the number of posts in…