Red, Very good insight....I ejoyed that.
WeStand,......Bless your heart,..thats alot of questions....but questions are good, someone once told me,
that if we have questions concerning the things of God, then that means God has prepared a place for us
to receive the answers. And I fully believe that.
When I first started out on my quest to Know The Lord, I read anything I could get my hands on and many
of those things that I read made me so confused. One of those teachings that I was so drawn into was the
doctine of Fallen Angels, Lucifer being Satan, Angels having sex with women, and even Satan having sex
with Eve..etc. Hence reading it also out of Isa. and Ezk. Which is really a wrong understanding.
And I believed it so much so, that I told many, but Praise Be to God, when I got to the point that I was tired
of being confused all the time mainly because scripture would not line up with scripture,
I put aside everything, and swore I would not read anything by man again or listen to man again,....I had
to KNOW HIM, through HIM, and by HIM. And that's when I began to understand how damaging those things
were.
Our God is so wise,...He has declared the End to us from the Begining. Isa.
The way that I see it is very simple really. God knew very well what would happen if He told Adam to not eat
of that tree. He knew He would. Think about it, if you tell a child not to touch that pot because it hot and it will
burn you, what are they going to do? They have to touch it, why? is it because they don't believe you? or is it
merly the fact that they don't KNOW by Experience what you are talking about? That is until they touch it?
This is what I mean about our Father, He knew very well what Adam would do. Now with that being said, is
God the Author of Sin? Well lets put it this way, if you told your child don't do that it'll hurt you, and they do it
anyhow, are you to blame for their boo boo? No, but what do you do about it? You comfort them, you bandage it
up, and wipe away their tears, and send them on their way. See all the things were already there in place for Adam
we were made subject to vanity, NOT Willingly, But the Same who subjected us to it, did it in hope. Hope of what?
that we also through experience would come to know Him, it was nessasary for us to become so depraved, and so
full of ourselves, till we pretty much KNOW we need Him in every way. This was and is the purpose of the Law, to
Reveal our selfish nature, and to Reveal Him As the Caring Father that He is.
I don't have children but I've been around enough to know that Adam in the Garden represents all mankind in that state. (As a child)
But see God already KNEW Before, what Adam would do, and how it would effect all of us, but if there is one thing that
we should Remember is that God, the same as any Parent, does and did take the responsibility for Adams fall.
By coming in the Flesh, in His Son and Redeeming us back to Him. He's not the Author of Sin but He did take responsability
for it. So important.
I didn't mean to write a book, but this is so important for us to come to a right understanding, it makes everything in scripture
flow. There is only one Enemy of God and that is the Carnal mind, this is what is meant by the Enmity, between the Womans
Seed, which is Christ, and the Serpents seed, children are produced.......I know that this is a hard saying and not all will
recieve it. But it is a Spiritual thing, not a natural, physical conception. In my bible, it says that the serpent was more Subtil
this word is Naked, the same word that is used to describe Adam, Naked, same word, is that a coinsident? I don't think so.
If there was nothing in Adam, before he partook of that tree to be revealed, there would have been no fall. But it was already
present within him when he ate. Just like us, when we begin to have the law writen on our hearts, it begins to show us, and slay
us as well, that is the old nature, and then makes us Alive unto God. I hope this helps. May God open our eyes even wider to
see HIM, in all of His wonderful Attributes.
Blessings