Who Are You? (Part Two)

That day, after the fall, when God was calling out Adam's name looking for him, and please note Adam was the one in hiding, because what took place the moment after that, when the serpent, the woman and the men, are told what the consequences were going to be for now on, that we came to see this, as punishment for disobedience. Western Society has a grand difficulty in understanding, God didn't view His Creation any differently at that moment then He did moments before the fall. In God's mind, He didn't say to himself, "well you did what I told you not to do, so now I am going to Punish you for it". "You go to hell!"
No! He didn't say that at all, ""bad boy, bad boy, what you going to do when I come for you!"
What a sick perversion of Who God is! Who we are! (Given freely to us by the serpent)
So man now had lost His sense of being who He really is, and His sense of who God really is.
Man sees Himself hopelessly evil, hopelessly good from that point on, because now from that point on, He sees God, as only good, and himself as good, only in relation to what he does, as who he is. Man now sees God as evil at times, by what He does, rather then by who He is.
Yes, God is good but He is much more than just good, He is love, absolute non-polluted love.
We were and are in the eyes of God, much more than just good or evil beings, He sees us always with the eyes of His love.
God's view of "us" never changed, we have been His creation before the fall and after the fall. What changed is our entire perception of truth. We now came to live an illusion, that "what we do, has defined who we are."
I am going to tell you something right now, there is no religion, on earth, did you hear me, on earth, that can change that wrong view of God, or ourselves. Even the "christian religion," doesn't do that for us, because largely that interpretation as presented to us is a perversion of truth as well. It is presented to us in law and grace mixed. The very thing that Paul worked so hard to eliminate.

But wait there is hope, the Bible tells an entire different story, then what you have had drilled in your skull, by the experts, of religion, by the so called good men in cloth, or anyone else for that matter.
Why, because religion is the natural propensity of men since the Fall, with that old mind set, which is the mind set of Adam that caused him to hide from God, and that which caused both Adam and Eve, to make the first attempt to cover something up about themselves, that God was quite pleased with while they were in the garden, but now they saw as something that defined them.
Their nakedness, their having no definition of who they are by the knowledge of good or evil. They were just naked, just as God intended them to be, they were already good, in God's eyes, because God had looked at all He had made, even naked Adam, no definition of good or evil and called all that He created, including the serpent and the Tree as of Knowledge of Good and Evil- GOOD! Read Genesis again, if necessary. I believe it is, for it is the start of the story that ends, not in the future somewhere way out yet beyond, it ended at the Cross and a New Creation came forth at the Resurrection. The end of the Old Story with the beginning of the new, thus Paul calls Jesus - the Second Adam.
Man changed the whole thing for himself and creation, not God.
Man is the one with the problem, not God, He didn't say whoops, now you went and did it, you became evil. He didn't go whoops now you need to make yourself good. Whoops, my goodness I should have put clothes on you before now, my goodness how shameful "your naked!"
It was not that God had to be reconciled to man, He never has left us, alone to wallow in the quagmire of all of this state of lostness. Our own loss of significance and definition of self found only in reliance upon Him.

I will present the rest of this in the following weeks. Stick with me, I promise some of your thinking will be changed and you will see your Daddy in heaven, and Jesus Christ work in a light perhaps not seen before by you. You will see how grand God's plan was and just what it was He accomplished in 33AD.

God bless until the next time.

Brother Joe Black