|
|
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
|
| |
|
| == Theme of Genesis ==
| |
|
| |
| === Man in Nature ===
| |
|
| |
| Man was created to be free.
| |
|
| |
| But men are often entangled in the rudiments of bondage because they are willing to settle delusions and believe a lie for their personal benefit. <Ref>2 Thessalonians 2:11 "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
| |
| : Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.</Ref>
| |
|
| |
| But we should know that it is the truth that sets you free.<Ref>"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32</Ref>
| |
| To be free is to be freed not only from the lies of the world but to tap into the very life and source of truth itself. In the universe we find the patterns of the Creator but the creation of the Creator is merely a reflection of His existence. It is not the Creator Himself.
| |
|
| |
| Genesis speaks of an ''the unmoved mover'' setting the universe in motion with his breath. That breath of God moved the waters and gave life to the soul of man. Man was then in a position to rule in righteousness and eat of the tree of life while walking with God. When man chose to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blame that choice on the woman and God he separated himself from the breath of God and hid from God.
| |
|
| |
| Genesis is a allegory about Mankind by the examination of individuals and the rise of the collective in an attempt to overcome the consequences of choices made by man which attempt to thwart the Law of Nature and Natures God.
| |
|
| |
| The relationship between God and man is an individual relationship but the relationship of man with God is revealed through man's relationship with the rest of creation.
| |
|
| |
| Science is the study of the universe through the senses.
| |
|
| |
| We all have opinions about the nature of creation but the Creator's opinion is the Truth.
| |
|
| |
| Because the universe is a manifestation of that Truth we may approach the Truth but we are not the Truth itself.
| |
|
| |
| To study of God should be a quest to know the Truth.
| |
|
| |
| Only an individual may embrace the truth. If a person wishes to seek and embrace Truth they must first be willing to embrace the truth about ourselves.
| |
|
| |
| The study of Genesis may help us to understand the truth about our relationship to God and to others.
| |
|
| |
| The Greek Aristotle said nothing is in the [[soul]] that does not come through the senses.
| |
| * Is that true?
| |
| * Does revelation come through the senses?
| |
| ** If it comes from God, ''the unmoved mover'', then the answer is no because revelation is written directly on our hearts and minds.<Ref>Although, revelation comes from ''the unmoved mover'', the creator outside of creation, it may be assumed that the revelation I receive can only come to you through the senses.</Ref>
| |
|
| |
| To believe that we can know the God of Truth through study alone or through our senses is form of [[idolatry]] where we worship the creation and not the Creator.<Ref>Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.</Ref>
| |
|
| |
| The Roman idea of the individual eventually included personhood as they moved away from the principle of the original Republic. Personhood is at least the quality or condition of being a person. A person as opposed to an individual is a member. The natural man was not a member of any social construct or civil society but only a man in nature under the divine plan of the God of nature and therefore [[Natural law]].
| |
|
| |
| [[Civil law]] is the law that men make for themselves. Civil law begins with the establishment of the first city State by [[Cain]]
| |
|
| |
| : "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." <Ref name="declare">[[Declaration of Independence]].</Ref>
| |
|
| |
| Original sin was a departure of man from some of those truths. [[Cain]], [[Nimrod]], [[Pharaoh]], and [[Caesar]] all were the leaders of instituted governments.
| |
|
| |
| : "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the [[consent]] of the governed"<Ref name="declare"></Ref>
| |
|
| |
| The civil state does take many forms which do not establish all ''"persons"'' as equal.
| |
|
| |
| [[Abraham]], [[Moses]] and [[Jesus]] also established or appointed forms of self government involving [[consent]] and [[freewill offerings]]. While, Man was created to be free, that freedom was limited from the beginning by the God of nature whose laws are inclusive within nature itself and the nature of Mankind.
| |
|
| |
| So, this is why it is also true that "no man was ever created free and no two men [were] ever created equal"... "The comity<Ref>comity. An atmosphere of social harmony</Ref> of peoples in groups large or small rests not upon this chemerical notion<Ref>Highly improbable or illusory.
| |
| Pertaining to or of the nature of a chimera; wholly imaginary; unreal; fantastic.
| |
| Incapable of realization; fantastically imaginative; preposterous: as, chimerical ideas, notions, projects, or fancies.</Ref> of equality but upon fraternity, a concept which long antedates it in history because it goes immeasurably deeper in human sentiment. The ancient feeling of brotherhood carries obligations of which equality knows nothing. It calls for respect and protection, for brotherhood is status in family, and family is by nature hierarchical."<Ref>Richard M. Weaver ''Ideas Have Consequences'' (1948),41-42. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. ISBN 0-226-87678-0</Ref> and why Rousseau explains, "This means nothing less than that he will be forced to be free; for this is the condition which, by giving each citizen to his country, secures him against all personal dependence."<Ref>Jean Jacques Rousseau, Book 1, Section 7 of the Social Contract.</Ref>
| |
| God warned man in his [[Exodus]] from the [[bondage]] of the State of [[Egypt]] that he is to make ''no contract or covenant'' with other [[gods]] or men posing a [[gods]].<Ref>Galatians 4:8 "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods."</Ref>
| |
|
| |
| We were not to return to [[Egypt]] and were to [[swear]] not, call men of the earth [[Father]], [[covet]] our neighbors goods, nor desire the [[wages of unrighteousness]].
| |
|
| |
| All this had to do with the [[Social contract]]s that are a [[snare]] and entangle us again in the [[yoke]] of [[bondage]].
| |
|
| |
| [[Abraham]], [[Moses]], [[John the Baptist]]. and [[Jesus]] ll established systems of [[charity]] while others established systems of [[force]] through the social compacts which not only take a [[bite]] but devour whole societies and nations.
| |
|
| |
| : "In order then that the social compact may not be an empty formula, it tacitly includes the undertaking, which alone can give force to the rest, that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body." Jean Jacques Rousseau
| |
|
| |
| Rousseau is suggesting that a [[Social Contract]], binds all individuals as [[persons]] with certain duties and obligations. Within those bonds there is freedom. The majority, through the power vested in the State by persons, will [[force]] the individual person to abide by the common compact in the form of civil laws established in a legal system. In other words the individual person will "be forced to be free" within the bonds of the State to which he is a member.
| |
|
| |
| Rousseau was of he opinion that "In this lies the key to the working of the political machine... without it, would be absurd, tyrannical, and liable to the most frightful abuses."
| |
|
| |
| But it has also been stated by William Pitt that, "As long as we look to government to solve our problems we will always suffer tyranny."
| |