Talk:Genesis

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.

But we should know that it is the truth that sets you free. 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.

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.

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."

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"

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 offering. 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 of peoples in groups large or small rests not upon this chemerical notion 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." 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." 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.

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 contracts 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, will force the individual person to abide by the common compact in the form of 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."