The Lamp Stand

God made man for a purpose. He mad man to work. For Adam translates to gardener, or to tiller of the soil. God mad Adam to work the garden of paradise.

He gave him dominion over the garden, that is to name all the creatures of the earth. This is no small child’s play of a task. Previous religions of the world reserved such powers for gods, yet here in the record of Israel we find that a plain man, the first man, the personification of all mankind, that human beings were given dominion over the earth and his purpose is to rule it.  

Yet, mankind’s rule over the earth has boundaries set forth on that rule which we see personified with the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God made man, gave him dominion, and gave him the knowledge he needed to rule over all the earth. Yet he did not give man all knowledge or all judgement.

To eat of this forbidden tree is to have experienced evil and know judgement so as to decide for oneself what is right and wrong and not rule with the purpose God created mankind but with a purpose he sets about for himself. Without the knowledge of evil, man would not be able to rule the earth in unjust and perverse ways.

God reacts to this tragedy. First, he punishes Adam for his lack of faith in perfect union. He now keeps Adam in his purpose to till of the earth, for Adam remains created for work. He still has purpose in his being. Yet, he now must till the earth in pain and sorrow, with sweat and blood and trial. To fulfil is purpose is now difficult to him.

God also protects man from evil and total corruption. He does this by restricting access to the tree of life. Without death, the evil would persist in the world forever. How can a man unknow what he knows? For man has experience of evil. He cannot unknow that experience and so must die or else it would persist forever.

Yet the experience goes beyond one man. Memories are passed through families in their DNA. Today’s understanding of the methods of God’s creation, (aka science), we have come to know that memories are hardcoded and stored in the DNA of man. The brain is but a processer, a cpu of sorts, where as the material of life and a man’s being all that he is we find in the DNA.

So, as we find in Adam, you also have the memory of evil knowledge in you. This is why God takes pity on the Children of Noah and creates the rainbow because his children are born with evil in their hearts, not the way He created them. It goes back further still, where we see Cain’s murder of Abel and the creation of the Cannanites an enemy of the people in the line of Seth, the third son who gets the blessing as the first is dead and the second is cursed.

So if evil and the experience of it passes from one generation to the next through the DNA of the parents, God must cutoff all mankind from the tree of life and the memory of the curse to find one’s purpose with difficulty remains.

What might be this forbidden knowledge?

Well look at all the perverse fruits of the earth: from genetic studies and use of medicine to harvest the stem cells of babies, and to modify life as god created it and make virus that destroy the earth and modify matter as to explode cities. The knowledge to use money to enslave a man in all his dignity. The knowledge to poison the minds a whole nation with propaganda to do evil to one another. To make judgments that we use to rationalize any use of evil so as to allow total warfare for the benefit of anything. This is the fruit of that evil tree.

God does not want evil to remain into perpetuity, so he must engineer a means of salvation.

Thus we have The Christ. For Jesus is the second person of the trinity (The Word) made flesh. He entered the world through the womb of a virgin who God prevented the memory of sin from entering her being and Christ was born of no memory of sin and never sinned. Yet, we was of the flesh and subject to God’s curse on the sons of man. He toiled in the world to complete his purpose of our salvation and offers us the blood and water from the cross. He gives us the way of salvation for Christ is not cut off from the tree of life and there is power in his blood, resurrection power. And heaven starts when we completely learn to trust and rely on God for the purpose for which he created us and for which we will find our truest happiness and fulfillment.

Glory be to The Father and to The Son and to The Holy Spirit. Amen.