The dispensations are God’s process of contrastively showing that His plan for humanity is right. The first dispensation asked the question, – if man was completely innocent; with no knowledge of the long-term consequences of his actions (good and evil), would he choose to continue to rely on God for moment by moment direction, or…
The last few posts have dealt with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and why eating the fruit of that tree led to death. This week, we will look at the wider implications of Adam and Eve eating the fruit, as well as the “what”, “why”, and “how” of the curses God…
In the last post, we saw that when we do something wrong, we feel guilt which drives us to seek some type of justification for our wrongs. We can either choose the “Justification of God”, which begins with contrastive thinking and can lead to God’s righteousness, or we can choose the “Justification of Man” which…
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…
Free will and the nature of Man. In the last post we looked at the mechanics behind the origin of the universe and used all kinds of science-y concepts to explain how something can come from nothing (with the explanation that what we think of as “something” really is “nothing” because…oh, just read the last…