Man was originally made for Eden.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….
Among other things, the Third Dispensation saw the introduction of organized religion (formalized, systematic alternatives to God’s plan). In the last post, we saw that the details of God’s plan were well known long before the Bible was written, so any such alternatives were intentional corruptions of the original. How and why did these corruptions…
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 Dispensation, innocence did not lead to man choosing God. In the Second Dispensation, an abundance of knowledge and experience gained…
The Second dispensation failed because the people of that era decided to only rely on the knowledge they had amassed during their lives. They did not believe in anything that they did not have full knowledge of, therefore they did not believe in God. They did not have faith. The last few posts have dealt…
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…