ON THE BRUTISHMENT OF MANKIND - final

 (continuation from the last commentary)

With Abel murdered by Cain, the fittest survived. Abel had been righteous, but Cain brutish just like the animals that were free-range beasts, so was Cain. He wandered to the land of Nod (Gen 4:16). The land of Nod east of Eden is ambiguous but was “in front” of the pleasantries of the Garden. Nod could be his ability to transmigrate between the invisible world from which his soul came to the firm places, if one looks at the literal meanings of the words therein.

Cain was by then a peculiar kind that the “woman” called “Is” in place of the usual word for man, “Adam.” If that translation is true, then Cain was another kind of being — an “extant” entity as the Hebrew word points toward. He was not a “man” but an image that was alien to God. Hence, again if that is true, Cain was half Luciferin (the “Beast”) and half human being because he was of Eve.

Right now, you may be thinking, That’s crazy talk! Then Saint John must have been crazy as well, to wit: (1 John 3:11-13): “This is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another… not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother, and wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

There is much said therein. Cain was evil in contrast to Abel’s righteousness. That is the same dualism as today; both the lost that are evil and the regenerated are righteous. As such, the “lost” who still wander are like their ancestor Cain, because Abel did not have any progeny. Hence, “The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Psalm 12:2-3).

As it was then, it remains so now because of the sin of the female to which the male concurred. As such, so-called “mankind,” or even “human-kind” are all together filthy as swine. Like filthy hogs, we go where we want to go without restriction, and even the best fences can be rooted under given enough time. Albeit mankind is not swine, we are “beasts” on the order of the original “Beast” that represents the “Serpent” of old. The Serpent was not a serpent at all but the “image” (nahas) of a being with a cunning countenance.

Remembering that God allowed Adam to name the kinds, after sin, Adam named a new kind that devolved, “Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20). That was said before Cain was born. It seems that Cain was conceived in the Garden and as such was the product of original carnal sin.

Of course, it is written, “In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven” (Mat 22:30). There is no carnal knowledge (sexual activity in heaven). “East of Eden” was before time while Adam’s kind were in the paradisiacal Garden. That supports my contention that time began with sin and in Paradise time does not exist.

However, the point in the making is that there was no sexual intercourse in Paradise until Lucifer came along in an alien body…“Alien” in the sense that Lucifer surely took on the objective image of Adam, and with it, useful “appendages” that Adam-kind had not needed before, noting that the woman was of man without any coitus in some divine process. It would have been a process analogous to photosynthesis, only the light is the Shekinah Light of God that brought life.

Since original sin, “mankind” is a changed species. With Abel gone, with none righteous like him, we all are of Cain who in turn was of the Wicked One. Adam named that new breed of people “Eve” (Haua) from her original female kind “woman” (Issa). So, when Adam named the progeny of Eve, Adam-kind became Eve-kind. That is now the genetic identity of every natural born person, male or female, since Eve is in all the mitochondrial DNA that is passed down to the male heirs with the male no longer “the father of all living,” or it would have been written so.

What about Seth? For some time, the progeny of Seth were the sons of God and were safe in holy Mount Herman. According to several sacred writings (e.g. The Book of Jasher), Seth’s progeny interbred with both angels and Cain’s offspring, and further devolved the theretofore human race.

So, who are natural born citizens on planet Earth to this day? “You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him” (John 8:44)

Cain murdered Abel then tried to cover his sin when confronted by God. To this day, that is the nature of the “beasts” that are called “homo sapiens” (wise men). Whether humans are totally depraved or not depends on our kind and what they do. In the Book of Jasher, mankind did every devious thing that could be done, notably: imbibing hard liquor, living for pleasure, fornication, sodomy with other men, and even pedophilia with boys.

Genun was the great inventor who conceived so many objects for pleasure. Humans had abandoned the idea of eternal life in Paradise and endeavored to create their own version of Paradise — whatever it was that came to mind.

Over time, God emancipated mankind, and we could choose our own master. Mankind has even rejected Satan, although “it” — that alien — is the progenitor of all and apparently Eve’s mitochondrial-DNA came from Lucifer. Mankind are now the “gods”!

The reason, therefore, why we cannot humble ourselves without God is because sin is new genetics within all human beings unless it has been cast out by regeneration. King David called that genetic predisposition, “iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). It means that David was depraved from the womb. It was in his genetic makeup, and nobody is any different from him.

Just like eating the fruit without the proper organs, apparently Eve used her pudendum for inappropriate intercourse with the alien (alien from God), Lucifer.

Eve sinned against her own person — against her own body for she allowed a foreign being to penetrate what should not have been penetrated. It appears that because of sin, God did give her and the male both digestive and reproductive organs to use for pleasure. A consequence of sin was what? “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children” (Gen 3:16). Indeed, conception in a virgin is painful, but pain they soon forget because of the pleasure. And to this day, there is sorrow, or pain, in bringing forth children, making a woman question the worth of it; voila; thoughts of abortion. Sexual intercourse was not meant to be, but since our forebears did it, so we too must. Sex is not spiritual but of the flesh and the flesh “god” but be appeased at all cost; even at the expense of others. It is that strong!

Sin exists to this time… Paul wrote, “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body” (1 Cor 6:18).

“Fornication” was the doing of the woman even as the male Adam watched (Gen 4:1). The first sin was “porno” translated as “fornication.” Adam did not know the woman sexually, but knew her visually doing strange things with the so-called “Beast.” The man watched porno for the first time and was bewitched by it. Now porno is in our genetics.

We often point to the sin of porno as worse that any other, and worse when it is incestuous. Indeed, it is a horrible malady, but sin is not weighted; those who lie, steal, envy, irreverent, and apathetic to God have the same punishment as one who performs pornographic activity. Porn is not only what one looks at but includes the performance.

Eve performed, it seems, with Satan, and the provenance of that was Cain. Adam watched. They both were involved in pornography.

With porno in their genetics, there was nothing that they would not do, so because Eve created a being herself without God (Gen 4:1), she became the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:2) in opposition to God whose intent was to be the Father of all living. Since then, all mankind has become pornographers spreading not “living souls,” but “dying flesh.”

God is gracious; He forgave Adam and Eve because this new kind had lust imbued within their genetic code — their “genome” — albeit incest is still there to be overcome by all. In other words, without God, anybody can be perverted.

Thinking that the end of the world had come with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot’s daughters did an awful thing; the oldest said and the younger followed: 

“Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.” And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, “Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go you in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.”  And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Thus, were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father

And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. (Gen 19:32:38)

 

Satan got into the minds of all three; Lot and his two daughters. Lot became unsober and non-vigilant and exposed himself both to his daughters and to the wiles of Satan. In like manner everyone now has a challenge, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).

Satan was involved in the intrigue, yet Lot was to blame for drinking the wine; he was drugged by his daughters and his own penis turned against God and toward his daughters.

Lot had been right with God as he was abhorred with the homosexuality in Sodom, yet he did as bad after he was saved by God from the fire. That Lot’s wife looked back was Satan’s plan for the corruption of Lot. You cannot out-wile the Devil, yet we endeavor to do so much of the time!

Then Lot’s daughters performed their things. Anyone that knows female anatomy understands that the performance of women is based on their arousal. (No wonder rape is so grievous for them!)

Which came firstly… the arousal, or the reason? Were they looking for a situation where it was okay to perform sexually? That can never be answered, but the Devil was there looking on. He devised a plan to arouse the triad. That the world would come to an end, unless they intervened was the plan! So, the two girls became the “goddesses” in the manner of Eve. They created Ammon and Benammi again without God in the picture, just like Eve had created for Adam another non-Adamic being.

The “new world” after Sodom perished made Lot another “Adam” and his own daughters, the “Eves.” Satan had deceived them again, albeit they were righteous enough to be saved from the fire.

Many think they are saved all the while they are in even more jeopardy than before? Why do Christians still sin? There may be multiple reasons, but one might be that they are thought to be “saved” already, so as such, they are vulnerable to the wiles of the Devil.

The girls may have thought that their reason was plausible, but the true sin was that although God had just saved them from fire, they were not saved from Hell. People sin because they have some sort of self-induced mindset of invulnerability; perhaps that God will forgive this sin just as He has looked away from all previous less grievous sins. Admit it; that is true!

Would beasts have even turned to their lord, father, and protector? Not many of them do such things! Indeed, once mankind were like God, but now they are like their “father” the Devil (John 8:44); father in the sense that sin is genetic.

We all have the capability to do the most grievous sins, perhaps the same sins that we criticize in others, given the right time and circumstances. Lot’s daughters made him capable by some type of provocation. It takes stimuli to arouse a man. To thing that a drunk person gets aroused by wine is silly; the arousal comes with activity.

A girl once told me, “I’ll dress however I want; it is the boys’ responsibility to control themselves.”  Inappropriate dress is the woman’s way of controlling men. Of course, the nakedness of a woman is still no excuse for erotic behavior in men, but it certainly does not aid in the prevention of unwanted advances. Neither did righteous Lot have a valid excuse but his lust was in his very genome.

You are no different. Even when the “sons of Adam” were performing all sorts of sex with anyone, Seth’s sons were safely on Mount Herman, according to the Book of Adam and Eve. Although they were far away and nearer heaven than those on the plain, they also lusted from afar, and joined in the foray, even after being told by God that there was no turning back!

Each sin is a rejection of God and almost everyone judges the sins of others worse than their own. When I hear of the wicked deeds of others, I think of my own wicked thoughts for performing sinful acts mentally (Mat 15:18-20) are as severe as performing them really.

Any sin, even incest, can be forgiven by Christ if repented. Repentance is not by word but by deed. It is endeavoring to not repeat it, even given that you might fail. It is trying not to perform acts of sin because “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).

Of course, we are never to judge others unfairly… with condemnation (Luke 6:37). Others are to be judged by the same metric that anyone would judge themselves: “For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again” (Mat 7:2).

Lot had been recently saved from the fires of Sodom. He had been righteous, but with the right inducement, even righteous Lot failed.

Then Lot’s daughters assumed that the world would end without their help, and in a sense, they became the gods that would save the seed of Lot, so that mankind could still exist.

Many have experienced the wiles of the Devil without even crediting him. Our own reasoning condemns us. For instance, even if stranded on a desert island, the first inclinations of stranded men and women is not how to be saved, but how to be satisfied; salvation can come after. In other words, the desire to pleasure in sin is stronger than preservation instinct. Sin can even make Christians forfeit their safety in Jesus.

God put on flesh to experience something; what was it? To feel the genetic pull toward sin that came from original sin. He knows it is hard to overcome the Devil because of our own flesh but that the Spirit is able.

With that said, the solution to sin is to remain in the Spirit and out of the flesh. It is up to people to do that, but it is possible. Although it seems to be impossible for us, but with God all things are possible (Mat 19:26), given enough faith and care on our parts.

God does not ask us to do the impossible because all impossibilities are in the flesh. He does ask that we turn to Him for the things that are impossible for us!

That lust is of the heart seems vague, but it lingers in our minds. The deceiving spirit of Lucifer since original sin is ours via genetics. We are indeed like our genetic archetype, the Devil, just as John wrote. We think that we all are children of God. but we are born of the genetics of the Devil. We do things that is in our genes from the beginning (John 8:44); People are not humane kinds at all but the wicked kind. Everyone is a degenerate and to think otherwise is irrational. Everyone is more like beasts than beasts themselves.

Humans are the only kind that are aroused by watching others perform. When the woman “encountered: the Serpent, Adam watched (Gen 4:1). His sin was pornography. He would have been aroused by what he was witnessing. Pornography has been on the minds of everyone since!

Porno must be satisfied. Some even turn to inflated dolls or some other mechanical means. The only real satisfaction comes from knowing Jesus, seeing what He would do to overcome our sins.

“Cheap grace” means that when Jesus died for our sins, we still think we can sin and not be held accountable.

Each sin denies the propitiation of the blood of Jesus for our “sins that are passed” (Rom 3::25), meaning the genetic sins because of original sin of Adam and his woman.

Men received their mitochondrial-DNA from Eve, the mother of all living, and the source of our genetic code. We sin because Eve sinned; it is in our blood, our flesh and our minds. Eve’s genome is in every nuclear cell or our bodies, and what did she do? She engaged in carnal knowledge, I believe, with an alien being from another realm!

That was the worst sin ever, so why would it be a surprise that her son, Cain, engaged in sex with his twin sister, Luluwa, according to sacred literature (Adam & Eve LXXIV).

Lulawa was even more beautiful than her glorious mother! The beauty of his own twin sister made Cain lust after her! That was his most egregious sin, because his intended was Aklidia, the righteous twin of Able. Cain hated Lulawa because she was not ordained to be his wife, so he denied the will of God and took her anyway.

The beauty of the fleshes of the other genders caused Cain to do an awful thing. He forgot who God was and did his own will. Cain became the “god” of the Earth and the king outside the Garden. Lust has prevailed since time began!

I believe that time began with the first sin when Cain was conceived by his father, the Devil. So long as we have Eve’s kind of genetics in us, we can still sin.

Jesus was aware of that, so He propitiated His own Blood with His righteous and glorious genetics in every nuclear cell of it to displace the genetics of the wicked one.

The point is that those types of behaviors are genetic. All humans are capable of repetition of all the original sins. (I believe that somehow the original sin was a violation of all ten tenets simultaneously).

“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). That includes everybody, the “whosoever” in John 3:16. The point is that many are inclined to find fault with others all the while our less cardinal sins are excused by the accusers. Everyone must judge themselves by the same metric that we judge others. Repeated for you not to forget:

Judge not, that you be not judged for with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? (Mat 7:1-3)

Whatever sin that can be done, any human is capable of the same doing. You cannot help yourselves, nor even change yourselves, because the awfullest sins imaginable are in the genetics of everyone until they die to themselves and are born again (John 3:7). Only God can alter who mankind turned out to be after the original sin that was passed down to all people.

So, you judge others harshly? “Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven” (Luke 6:37).

You can even murder to cover bad behaviors! Cain did just that. He kept things from God, thinking that he would not be caught! Even king David murdered to cover his sexual sin.

Because sins can be covered-up does not make them lesser sins. Compare what you have done, or even thought. Are you not corrupt as well?

“Well,” you say, with indignity “I would never do such things as others do!” Neither would I… unless the flesh becomes weak, even when the spirit is willing to comply (Mat 26:41).

Even the best Christians are capable of evil doings! Adam even had God within him when he did awful things. To think you are beyond that, then you are in danger. Speaking of myself, when I was performing the best with God, was when I was attacked. I thought I was safe from the Wicked One, and when I thought that temptations of all sorts overwhelmed me.

Worth repeating is that when speaking to the Christian elders, Paul wrote, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).

Nothing is beyond human capacity because the Devil has been in all of us. Sometimes my own thoughts offend me; that is the sin to our own selves. When I compare the sins of others to  my sins that are past, I wince because I too deserve death, but by grace God has forgotten what I cannot!

Paul, and even several prophets wrote about sin, “"I will forgive your iniquity, and I will remember your sin no more” (e.g. Jer 31:34). Not that God erases His Mind but that He will not hold past sins against you. He knows that they are part of our kind.

“Iniquity” is the performance of sin due to genetics. Like David, we too were “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). That is us all, and the minds of everyone wander like Cains, and like Cain, everyone endeavors to cover-up what they have done.

That does not make secret things right but should encourage everyone to judge others by the same metric because everyone has been depraved, even Christians.

It is easy to accuse others of serious crimes but any violation of the standards of God are morally criminal crimes that must be recompensed. Jesus served our sentence for everyone already, but most will still reject reprieve.

So, you have not fornicated! Everyone has. When anyone sins, that is fornication against God, ”For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication” (1 Thes 4:2-3).

How so? The Church (all true Christians) are the “bride” of Christ, the “Bridegroom” (Isa 62:5), “As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over you.” Sin is fornication against God because rebirth is the nuptials. The temptation is the flirting with other gods, and the sin consummation, having intercourse with unknown gods.

Flirting is not the problem but the danger. “Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death” (Jas 1:13-14).

James was preaching to the Church — the assembly of all Christians. He said that even we are subject to temptation and the outcome may be sin and from sin death. Death is Hell. Yes, even Christians enter unto unsafe places where their unsafety may be their ruin.

So, you say that you are saved? Satan tests that on a regular routine. He does not pull you away, but your lusts do. It is you, not Satan, that trespasses against God. Whether you lie, steal, or do the most awful things, unless they are repented of, the penalty is death. Repentance does not come before the trespasses but afterward.

Beasts do not trespass and neither do those who are not Christians. They belong in dangerous places. Only Christian can truly trespass.

For years, I indicted myself. The “lost” do not do that because they account to no one. They each are kings of their own domains. Only Christians can trespass because trespassing has direction.; it is going out of the Will of God and each sin is a trespass further away from the throne of God. Satan’s idea is for you to go so far away that you become lost just as you were before you found the way.

I have lusted and still do. Generally, when I lust, thoughts of God contain me within His territory. However, when thoughts of God are dim, then sin ensues. God does not convict for the brief thoughts but for the consummation of sins, either mentally or reality.

Of course, those lustful thoughts are not the Thoughts of God but your own because Satan is the “Old Man” within that is in your natures.

God does not blame you for having the Old Man within, but only for not keeping Himself out.

Of course, the “Old Man” is the creature that deceived Adam. However, if you want the creature out, God will drive him out.

Those who are comfortable with the Beast within are lost outside the perimeter of God’s domain and the consequence is death. Leaving the protection of God are the trespasses, but if you desire to stay in, God will keep you in the bounds of His Estate.

However, non-Christians are comfortable being free-range — doing whatever they want to do as if there are no kings (Jud 17:6). You cannot trespass against Satan; that would be irrational for Satan has no kingdom. For non-Christians, sin is essentially trespassing against yourselves.

Beasts do what is right in their domain. They copulate at will and are instinctual enough to generally stay away from their kin and humans. They follow rules with which God endowed them. God set rules for mankind; To save me the trouble of discovery, Wikipedia lists forbidden sexual relations: 

The relationships prohibited by Leviticus 18 are:

 

One's mother (Leviticus 18:7)

One's father (Leviticus 18:7)

One's stepmother (Leviticus 18:8)

One's paternal or maternal sister (Leviticus 18:9)

One's paternal sister through one's father's wife Leviticus 18:11 ()

One's daughter (inferred from Leviticus 18:10.

One's granddaughter (Leviticus 18:10)

A woman and her daughter (Leviticus 18:17)

A woman and her granddaughter (Leviticus 18:17)

One's aunt by blood (Leviticus 18:12–13)

One's father's brother (uncle) (Leviticus 18:14)

One's father's brother's wife (aunt) (Leviticus 18:14)

One's daughter-in-law (Leviticus 18:15)

One's brother's wife (sister-in-law) (Leviticus 18:16), with the exception of Yibum

One's wife's sister (sister-in-law) during one's wife's lifetime, even if since divorced (Leviticus 18:18)

 

There are more prohibitions in chapter twenty. However, fornication with anyone not the spouse is forbidden because it is adultery. Furthermore, lust is forbidden as well, “Sin begins in the heart and mind, and people think about sin before committing it” (Mat 15:9).

We accuse others of sinning. We may have not been incestual, but even thinking to the extent of enjoyment is sinful. They are rigid standards, but God is graceful. Christians who think they do not sin lie to themselves: (1 John 2:4), “He that says, ‘I know Him,’ and keeps not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”

Christians still do sin, but real Christians repent of sin. God reprieves because God’s Genome in Jesus was tempted by the Devil. He knows mankind’s problem and it is our fleshes. We are the “gods” before conversion and gods obtain what they want.

Unfortunately, sex is what so many want, and they will go further than the beasts go to obtain it. The beasts instinctually know what is forbidden but us anthropoids miss the mark. Mankind is worse than the beasts, yet we still call ourselves “humane-beings”!

This commentary was written so that Christians quit excusing our own sins as we are captivated on the sins of others. This commentary by no means excuses any sin because any sin is inexcusable. However, all sin as wicked and is inexcusable, but covered by the blood of Jesus… if Christ is in the person when the death angel comes for them.

Jesus sees the forgiven person as a new creature wherein “old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17). The old guy still looks like he always did, but inside of him, God, “begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil 1:6).

When people see a Christian, it is not the finished product that is seen, but what God has begun!  Rebirth (John 3:7) is not completion, but a beginning, of a long process that ends with glorification when Jesus comes again. Christians are expected to be perfect, but sin is so engrained that it takes time. There are no perfect people walking around, so get used to it. Christians are far from perfect because the perfection is induced by Jesus when He comes for those dead in Christ to perfect them with incorruptible flesh (1 Cor 15:52).

What people see is the “Old Man.” However, there is much ado within that depraved body. God is doing a good work.

I am an old guy; God is till doing His good work in me. That does not excuse my sin, but I realize that I am not finished in the long process of glorification but can be when I am resurrected from my sleep.

So, do you still sin? Satan uses every sin to make you still feel unworthy, and indeed we are never worthy of Christ. Because I still sin, sometimes I doubt that I can hold out until the end. Grace is that Jesus will take imperfect me into His realm. I will not be made perfect until Jesus comes again, so I am not perfect, and neither are you, so to judge others is ignoring your own depravities.

Christianity is not complicated. The cessation of sins is genetic, so there is no way we can overcome the world — our genetics. However, Jesus did just that for He said, “Be of good cheer because I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). He did that with our depraved genetics because up until this decade nobody, but God, could reidentify us by gene-editing.

Now is the time to be humbled by who you are and allow God to lift you up just as James wrote.

"Lilith: Biblical Archeological Society

ON THE BRUTISHNESS OF MANKIND - part one

This will humble you as it has me! My own narcissistic attitude faded when I learned how decadent, even depraved, that I was before I was born again; albeit it was a very slow and painful rebirth.

Adam died just as God had warned; the male and female of God’s kind devolved. They were not what they once were. In the beginning they were glorious.

Focus on their states in the beginning. Within their bodies was a soul that was the vessel for the contents of God within. What did the soul look like? The invisible God; it was in His Image that it was made, as you should well know by now. That “Image” from the Hebrew was “Selem” — a “Shadow” or “Phantom” (Strong 2006),

That was the real man! He and she were the shadows of God. Because “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:15) that “shadow” was not darkness but less intense light. Mankind were not gods, but they too were the Light of God, just a dimmer version if it is thought of in that manner.

Shadows have substance. It may not be organic or metallic, but it is still a substance. Plato might have thought, The truth is that the shadow of mankind — his and her souls — is a fragment of the object.  The substance of their souls was Spirit for God breathed life unto them. The substance of the inner male and female would have been the Spirit of God in bodily shapes with the male and female of different forms.

Since life was breathed unto the material bodies of the Adam, then he breathed it unto the woman, the male came first and would be dominant.

Note that life became another life, not by sexual interaction, but spiritual dynamics. There was nobody created in the Garden that was created because of sexual union. That points to the male and female never having pudenda until sin changed them.

That may be ambiguous, but ancient writers of sacred literature share the same viewpoint.

Sin had changed the man and his woman, according to an unknown ancient writer: 

They felt great trouble from the food they had eaten, and to which they were not used, they went about in the cave saying to each other:-- "What has happened to us through eating, that this pain should have come upon us? Woe be to us, we shall die! Better for us to have died than to have eaten; and to have kept our bodies pure, than to have defiled them with food."

Then Adam said to Eve, "This pain did not come to us in the garden, neither did we eat such bad food there. Thinkest thou, O Eve, that God will plague us through the food that is in us, or that our inwards will come out; or that God means to kill us with this pain before He has fulfilled His promise to us?"

Then Adam besought the Lord and said, "O Lord, let us not perish through the food we have eaten. O Lord, smite us not; but deal with us according to Thy great mercy, and forsake us not until the day of the promise Thou hast made us."

Then God looked upon them, and at once fitted them for eating food; as unto this day; so that they should not perish.

Then Adam and Eve came back into the cave sorrowful and weeping because of the alteration in their nature. And they both knew from that hour that they were altered beings, that their hope of returning to the garden was now cut off; and that they could not enter it. For that now their bodies had strange functions; and all flesh that requires food and drink for its existence, cannot be in the garden. (Pseudipigrapha 1926) 

That passage was taken from The Book of Adam and Eve and Their Conflicts with Satan, chapter 45, 2-8). They had just eaten figs and God provided for them digestive organs after they had sinned.

Note their glorious appearance before sin: They had shapes that were male and female respectively, and God provided for them a covering (Gen 2:7). They were both naked (arom) and were not ashamed (Gen 2:25). Their nakedness was without possession as the word means in one context. It seems that their nakedness was transparency. Their soul could be seen through whatever the substances of their fleshes. God and any future passers-by could see the glory within them. The glory of God, much dimmer than the Light of God, would have showed through their organic flesh. I think of that covering as some substance that was similar to modern -day transparent polymers that were alive due to what was within.

God said that they would die. With sin, they died. As the sacred writing above reveals, they were no longer glorious beings, but their nature became brutish and of the same substance as the other kinds.

The man and the woman had changed. Among other things, they felt pain because they had eaten. Hence, they had to defecate but were unable to do so. God was graceful, He then equipped them with digestive tracts. They innards would have taken on gross things and with decay within them, they were no longer glorious but brutish.

The two inglorious beings drank water from just beyond the Garden. There were serious consequences, to wit: 

Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said unto him, "O Adam, thy body is become brutish, and requires water to drink. Take ye, and drink, thou and Eve; give thanks and praise." Adam and Eve then drew near, and drank of it, until their bodies felt refreshed. After having drunk, they praised God, and then returned to their cave, after their former custom. This happened at the end of eighty-three days. (Ibid; 1 Adam & Eve 46:3-4) 

They were then more like, “a lower animal as distinguished from a human being” (Merriam-Webster 2024). Not only were their form like the animals, but their function was as well. Their dominance was even challenged to “one who lacks intelligence, sensitivity, or compassion” (ibid).

Because of sin, God was gracious because they were of God and like God in the beginning before sin when in the realm of Paradise. It seems that Paradise was created in another realm with the environment like the Earth but without decay of any sorts. In other words, the Garden seemed to have been in another realm, and the two were cast out of it into this realm (Gen 3;24). The place that God described for them (Gen 3) was a fair description of our world here on planet Earth.

Mankind’s problem is ourselves. Note that Satan (The “Serpent”) did not mandate man and the woman to do anything; it was by their own volition that they disobeyed God and defied His one and only command!

Satan does not make you do anything. The male and the female were left alone to do as they pleased. The aforementioned book is about them doing as they pleased and the consequences that they suffered. Satan was always there with his cunningness, but not one time did Satan make them eat or drink water. They were free agents to do whatever pleased them, and for them, there was no king in the Kingdom of God, not even Satan.

How did the two become brutish? They defied the Deity, and they created a new deity. Right now, you are probably thinking that the two made Satan lord of their lives. Not so, they became masters of their own domain. The world was theirs now to either dress and keep or to let perish. Satan neither helped not hindered them from their animal husbandry. Before, Yahweh God, the Creator Father, was the Husbandman (John 15:1), afterward they, just like Noah, became the husbandmen (Gen 9:20).

What is “husbandry”?

“The cultivation or production of plants or animals” (Merriam-Webster 2024).

Before sin, Adam was to dress and keep the Garden wherein God performed the husbandry. God cultivated and produced all things that turned out “very good” (Gen 1:31). That is an understatement; they were created glorious; and how was that? It was meod tob — abundantly the best, and not diminished at all. God’s creatures were all glorious, bit only mankind was de-glorified in the Garden in heaven. The beasts that were there then may still be there now, but the brutes were made soulless. Life, then, is not the ability to articulate and grow, but the kinds that have souls with the Spirit of God in them.

Demons are not in the souls of men at their birth. Demons are real but get unto people for significant reasons. Of great significance is those who have been born again; they are the ones that need to remain sober and vigilant (1 Pet 5:8).

Satan via the “Serpent” never got into the souls of the man and the woman. However, they died, died, died. God got out of their bodies, their souls, and their lives. The man and the woman were emancipated entirely from God and became free-range beasts that must fend for themselves.

Who would get to them? Not Satan for he is too cunning. The world would get them; that is revealed in Genesis chapter three. They thought of themselves as the gods, and they would perish themselves!

What happened with sin that Satan did not get into their souls? “He” figuratively speaking, got into the flesh of male and the female. Their souls were empty of God but their fleshes became like Satan’s that was very different than the other existences. Again, The Books of Adam and Eve reveals that Lucifer and “its” demons can morph into various shapes and genders, even into beautiful, seductive women! (That itself is a great argument against transsexualism; it is of the Devil.) To morph, or transition, into any other existence is a abominable sin, or even to behave as the Kenites behaved in the days of Noah — male to male pedophilia, according to The Book of Jasher.

After sin, both the man and the woman were ashamed of their non-transparency (Gen 2:25). No longer could the Image of God be seen within them. They had new flesh in the manner of the older creature, Satan (aka Lucifer, the Serpent, the Devil, the Beast, etc.)

Lucifer was not a beast like you may imagine, but more like a beast in the movie Predator. Lucifer was an invisible but extant being that could only be revealed by its effect on things around it in the same manner as the movie. However, Lucifer could take on flesh and appear to be just another beast, thus “The Beast” in scripture. Now I am going somewhere. Scripture says:

For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that Wicked One, and slew his brother, and wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. (1 John 3:11-12)

It started in the beginning. What started? That us glorious creatures should love each other — to have goodwill for each other.

Cain had neither goodwill for Abel who was right with God nor even for God Himself. If you remember what a brute is, there you have it. Cain lacked intelligence, sensitivity, or compassion just as Merriam-Webster indicated. He lacked wisdom to use intelligence rightly and showed no compassion. He was indeed like a viper within his flesh, or nature. The brute hated his own flesh enough to kill the other who was a reflection of himself; however the ”mirror” was better than the object, so Cain broke the “mirror” because Abel reflected God and he reflected the wicked serpentine creature.

Cain lost his birthright that would be assumed by Seth upon the death of Abel, so she “bare a son, and called his name ‘Seth’ for God, said she, ‘had appointed Me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew’” (Gen 4:25). Hence, both Abel and Seth were “sons of God” because they were like their father, the male man, Adam. Cain was like Satan, his “father” — the Devil.

Cain was much unlike Adam? It was as if he had a different father or mother; or perhaps both!

(To be continued; why men are brutish)

 picture credit: PENGEE "A naked man"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

APOLOGETIC FOR THE SHROUD OF JESUS - Addendum

 I am now in the process of making this series into a book. In my research of the details, I thought of Josephus' appraisal of the Christ. I believe the Shroud of Turin is extant evidence of what Josephus believed. Herein is an addendum:

Jews honor their dead. It is not a celebration of life but a celebration of death. 

In Jewish literature and law, the human being is compared with the scroll of the Torah. The death of a man, for example, is equivalent to the burning of a Torah, and, in both cases, the onlooker is required to rend his garments. As the Torah, used for holy purposes, retains its holiness even when it becomes religiously disqualified, so man, having lived for noble purpose, retains dignity even in death. (Lamm 1966) 

Since the dead’s body is an Image of God, the dead are treated as if he or she is God; not that they are gods, but it is recognized that some spark of God was in them.

Perhaps the reason that the genitals of Jesus were covered for the burial was to prevent fornication. Fornication is not an act but an idea, porno in the Greek. Porno is exposing the body because to do so is disrespectful. No wonder, “those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man” (Mat 15:18).

The nakedness of Jesus was not His shame but our shame. Viewing the private parts of Jesus would have defiled us and disrespected Him. Jews do not display their dead like they were alive. The burial of Jesus defied Judaism. He was put on display, not in the tomb, but on cloth, if my hypothesis is true.

I find no place where Jews cover the genitalia in their funeral arrangements, so the man on the cloth must be a special type of Jew; perhaps a Christian Jew or Christ Himself. Ironically, Jesus was the first “man of the cloth” (a priest) if the shroud is His.

Note that it was written therein, “The death of a man, for example, is equivalent to the burning of a Torah.” The Torah is “The Word” in scripture. Death is like burning the Word, Jesus. So, the burial cloth of Jesus is like the Torah (first five books of the Old Testament). How does that apply to the death of Jesus? The Word was burned on linen. The holy Shroud of Jesus would be like the printed Word of God.

Indeed, Josephus referred to the death of Jesus as a “holocaust,” meaning that He was burned in death. The Shroud is the only evidence that we have that the death of Jesus was a holocaust, or a burnt offering.

Although writers are not in accord, Josephus wrote this about Jesus in the Testimonium Flavianum: 

About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared. (Josephus, Antiquity of the Jews n.d.) 

Note that Josephus wrote, “He was the Christ.” That Jewish general believed Jesus was the Jewish Messiah in the flesh!  Josephus also wrote, “He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life.” Josephus believed in the Resurrection of Jesus. Belief that Jesus is the Messiah and that He was raised from the dead is the criteria for the making of a Christian, according to Paul (Acts 17:18).

Of course many disbelieve the Testimonium Flavianum , so the words of Josephus have been edited by posterity. However, the picture remains — the picture of Him spending a third day as He was restored to life. The Shroud is a picture of that restoration process… the glorification of Jesus.

Josephus pointed toward the Shroud, whether he knew it or not. Not only have Christians not disappeared to his writing but even until this day.

It makes sense that the picture of Christ on the linen has faded. It even disappeared for hundreds of years. Could it be that when the cloth fades of its image, the end comes? Or could it be when the cloth is not held in esteem because neither is the Christ that the end comes?

Scroll on Fire; credit StockCake

APOLOGETIC FOR THE SHROUD OF JESUS - Epilogue

After finishing my treatise, I realized that it was not finished, so this epilogue adds to the story.

The man, Adam, is a moving picture in our minds. We think of him like we think of ourselves. So many people have a false idea; that “We are all God’s children.” No, we are not! “You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do” (John 8:44).

John knew God! He knew that Jesus is Yahweh and had been since the beginning (John 1:1-14). He was saying, You are not of God; your father is the Devil.

Adam was a picture of God; “God created man in His own Image, in the Image of God created He him; male and female created He them” (Gen 1:27).

First off, “Adam” was not the male’s name. Adam was our kind in the beginning. Hence, all of us were made in the Image of God, not our flesh, but our countenance within; what we now call our “souls.” Right then, God created an Image off His likeness. Since our souls pre-existed us (Ephes 1:4), we were all at that time, a “picture” of Yahweh. We call that picture the “soul” because it is what was inside our ancestor and his woman.

The female was of the male. She was a picture of the male, so the original picture had a copy made from it. Everyone thereafter should have been a copy from the woman as the mother of all the living (Gen 3:20), but with time and repetition, the image faded until it degenerated in nine generations (Gen 5), so much that God could not longer be seen in Adam’s kind (Gen 6). No longer could God tolerate the devolution, so He dissolved the evil pictures of Adam that were not much like him. Mankind had become fornicators, porno in the Greek.

We think of mankind’s outside, but the degeneration was within. The soul of mankind no longer resembled God but looked more like the so-called “Serpent” who was not literally a “serpent” but cunning in that manner.

“Son” and “father” in those passages is genetics. The Devil, for instance, never sired us but is in our genetics because of the original sin. However remote it might be, Jesus said that we must be born again (John 3:7), literally “engendered from above” (Strong 2006). The picture of God within us can be restored. The resurrection process is how Jesus restores what little remains within us (we are not totally depraved but nearly so).

The Shroud of Turin showed how mankind (Adam) can be redeemed. The first step in the process is a through regenning, a time related process beginning with rebirth.

We too must spend time with God for development wherein the “babe in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1) must be set apart (sanctified) until the picture of God within us develops.

When the time of death nears, it does not matter what the picture looked like all the time, but how it looks at the moment of death.

The Shroud shows how Jesus looked at His death but atop that picture is the “negative” — how he looked then at the moment of the Resurrection. The Shroud is both the death mask and a mask of His “quickening Spirit” overlaid onto the same picture (1 Cor 15:45).

The picture on the burial shroud of Christ caught that “quickening Spirit” mentioned in that passage; “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”

The Shroud was therefore a picture of the “Last Adam,” not a second Adam for each generation to us is a false picture of Adam. The Shroud shows the Image of God that was in the first Adam. The picture on the Shroud is in the negative. It is essentially the shadow of the Divine Adam.

In review, what was the Image of God in Adam? A “Selem” in the Hebrew; literally a “Shadow” but interpolated to be a “Phantom” (ibid). The dark features contrasted on the Shroud is what our soul should have looked like in 3:D. What you see on the Shroud is not a two-dimensional picture of Jesus since it was wrapped around the body, it revealed all the dimensions of the Body and Ghost of Christ at the same time.

Digressing for a moment, the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke each present one viewpoint of Jesus. For now, the viewpoints of each will not be discussed, but together they three gospels, each by one person, reveals a three-dimensional picture of Jesus. To see the real Jesus, each gospel must be read and assembled.

On the other hand, multiple people are believed to have provided information about Jesus for the book written by John. John starts out by giving a view of Jesus that the others did not; that the Image of God in the Old Testament was as real as the walking, talking, articulating Jesus that he saw. Therefore, John chapter one is a verbal picture that correlates with the picture on the burial cloth of Jesus!

John wrote in 3-D because he knew the real Jesus. He did not forget; the picture that he saw of the Living God is related in the Revelation wherein God showed John the picture of Himself fully developed, sometime after He returned to His Father: 

I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks One like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. (Rev 12:15) 

John saw a Shroud that we could not see. It was a garment that went down to His feet. Now examine the burial covering of Jesus. John saw Jesus without His clothes, so to speak. He was dressed in a garment that was more like the burial covering — like the Shroud of Turin.

 

Figure 2; Shroud of Turn

Note that John saw into another realm. He saw Jesus with white hair, and He was alive for His eyes were “as a flame of fire.” Those eyes would have provided the Divine Light that put the picture on the Shroud. The Angel of God seems to have projected His Image onto the burial cloth and in 3-D by hovering around the Body of Christ as He had done with Mary to conceive the original 3-D Living Picture of Yahweh!

The real Image of Jesus — the objectified Image of Him — would look like this if the covering was wrapped which it has been by use of computer technology.

 

Figure 3: YouTube

This could be an actual photo of the last Adam. If so, the first Adam would have resembled Jesus before he sinned and deteriorated the Image.

John saw something in his vision that pointed toward “The Word” which was the very Image of Jesus before He put on flesh; the one that Nebuchadnezzar saw in the fiery furnace.

The king had three men put into the furnace, but he saw a fourth: “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” Jesus was walking in the fire. His Divine feet would have been singed by fire. John saw that in the risen Christ! What John saw validated the story of Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego.

However, not only that, but John saw evidence of  intense Light that had altered the feet of the glorified Jesus. His feet had signs of penetration by intense Light, “His feet (was) like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace.” Not only His feet, John, but His entire Body was burnt in the tomb by the Shekinah of God! That was why His death was a “holocaust.” I submit that the Image of Jesus that John saw was very much the same Image that we see on the Shroud!

Now for a moment, consider the first Adam again. He was naked before sin and was not ashamed (Gen 2:25); not that he was literally naked but that his soul could be seen through whatever his glorified flesh was. After sin, he was naked, both of them, and they were ashamed. Their souls had changed, so for that reason, they attempted to cover their genitalia — their genetics — for it would degenerate mankind, and that has been the case. I believe the flesh that we have to this day, since sin, is flesh mutated by the genome of Lucifer — the cunning serpentine-like creature.

With that said, after Jesus was glorified, He assumed new flesh; flesh that could not be touched nor torched. It seems to have been a very different incorruptible flesh that Jesus wore that could overcome the world (1 Pet 1:23).

The picture on the Shroud reveals the wounds that Jesus received, but wounds that failed to kill Him. It is a picture of His incorruptibility as well. In a sense, the burial cloth reveals His nakedness, and He was not ashamed. Note that a closeup view of the Shroud shows the genitalia of Jesus covered by his folded hands. In glorification, Jesus was not ashamed for He was indeed the last Adam.

Morticians generally bury people with their hands folded on their abdomens. Perhaps that is because of the folded hands of glorified Jesus; who knows? However, it makes more theological sense for Christians to be buried with our hands over our genitalia for throughout the course of history our genitals have been our shame.

So is it true; did John see the gloried Jesus as we see Him on the Shroud? I believe so! I trust that the Image on the Shroud is our Savior demonstrating the resurrection is possible for Him and us!

There is no shroud of it, but the first Adam may have been one of the saints on Calvary that were resurrected with Jesus that “came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many” (Mat 27:53). [1]

In regard to Adam, he was made in the Image of God. He was a negative picture of God, not in the sense that he was created wicked, but that although God could not be seen, Adam could. Whatever the substance of that Image, it could be seen because it was a picture of God. How did God make Adam. He took a 3-D picture of Himself and put it into the man, and then made it a living, articulating anthropoid (anthropos is “man” in the Greek) that stood upright.

Adam was then covered with a flesh that revealed his inward image.

Only with sin came human skin like the beasts. As the last Adam, the photograph on the Shroud may very well be what we should look like when we too are resurrected, hopefully minus the wounds and such. The burial Shroud of Jesus might very well be a picture of the dead when they arise, not in the sense of elevation from the grave, but when our bodies are assembled again with our souls and made incorruptible. It is a picture of us in Christ if we are born again.

There is much speculation in the contents of this treatise, but I do present plausible evidence that the burial shroud is the Image on cloth of Jesus at the very moment that He was glorified! That should not only excite you but comfort you, as well. Not only is it a picture of the Man of God but the “Comforter” as well, meaning the Holy Ghost (John 14:6). The Shroud is more than a cloth but a comforter for those in Christ. I am not Jewish, but the sign is plain to me!

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[1] For more on that refer to my book, The Skull of Adam.

APOLOGETIC FOR THE SHROUD OF JESUS - final part

The purpose of this treatise is to determine if it is plausible that the Shroud of Turn is indeed the burial cloth of Jesus, the Christ. If it is, then that holy cloth would reveal the glorification of Jesus just as He said in the following passage. 

He that believes on Me, as the scripture has said, “out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water.” But this spoke He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:38-39)

 Some “fluid” flows from Christ to believers. For this passage to be understood, I had to punctuate it because there was a quote within the quote. The Living Water is from the belly of Jesus, not another, and Jesus defined it as the Spirit of God. It goes onto say that the day would come soon after He was glorified. It did not come until after Jesus was resurrected and ascended (Acts 2). Hence, only Jesus had the Holy Spirit in Him and that is confirmed by His baptism. John the Baptist said, “Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizes with the Holy Ghost” (John 1:33).

Therein we have the “photographic fluid” to develop the picture of Jesus on His burial cloth. When Jesus was glorified, the Image of God came onto Him after leaving Him at the crucifixion.

As I wrote in my book, The Awesome Quantum God, the godhead consists of Jesus, the Holy Ghost, and the Dynamics, or Power. The Living Water is the movement, or transmission, of the Holy Spirit. “Glorification,” in my lexicon, would be the transmission of the Holy Spirit, which in effect “assembles” the Holy Trinity.

Jesus figuratively was “raised (egerio) from the dead” (Acts 3:15); the idea of which is “to collect one’s faculties” (Strong 2006), or to assemble them. As Jesus was raised, His faculties were re-assembled after they had left Him at the crucifixion (Mark 15:37).

“Glorification” is the re-assembly of the Image of the Father into the Son. The third “Divine Substance” would be the Power of God — the Creator aspect of Him.

Why a Quantum God? Because the Dynamics of God which was, according to King David, acted in the following manner, “In the daytime also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire” (Psalm 78:14). However, when God rested, His Image was a bright “Shadow,” not that His Image was dark, for there is no darkness in Him according to John, “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

Thus the “cloud” was not dark but a bright cloud. Likewise, the “Shadow” (Selem) of God was not dark but a phantom that radiated brightness. When God rested a second time during the  New Testament era, the Shadow of God appeared as the Man, Jesus. The bright Cloud, the bright Phantom, and the radiant Jesus are each as much God as the next in Power.

After the Resurrection and Glorification of Jesus, “(Th)ereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the Power of God” (Luke 22:69). Jesus did not literally sit alongside the Father but was re-assembled to the Father by Divine Power. That Process is Glorification.

Again, I believe that the Shroud captured the glorification of Jesus, and as such it is the ultimate evidence that Jesus is in fact God and that God left forensic evidence for posterity because we are all inwardly Jews (Rom 2:29) that need a sign.

What happened in the “dark room” of the tomb is that the picture of the glorification of Jesus was captured and developed and sent around the world like a negative image on a film. The “film” was the burial cloth, if that is correct.

Within the tomb in the darkness thereof it seems that the Light of God came onto the Man and exposed Him as God. It was a re-assembly because the Holy Ghost would have come in Power and re-entered Jesus just as at the baptism of Jesus when “the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him” (Luke 3:22).

Now imagine this: Jesus lies completely still in the tomb just like in an old still picture like the one shown below.

 

Figure 1: Victorian Photo Showing girl as if alive

 

Now imagine the Holy Spirit in bodily shape coming onto His body again. The Holy Ghost would have passed through the burial cloth and sinched the material. The dark image would not be made by blood or a dye, but the Phantom Image of God burned onto cloth by the Power of God.

Before I write about the source of the Image of God in verse, there is one loophole to be closed; it was not just the affusion of oil on His head, but on His body: “She has done what she could; she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying” (Mark 14:8). His whole body was covered with anointment; no wondered some were indignant toward Mary; it was not just the money wasted but Christ exposed (probably down to his pants) as He would be when they stripped Him naked on the cross.

Mary did that for a specific reason, for some purpose during his burial. Jewish burials traditionally had two steps: (1) internment in a tomb or cave until the flesh decayed, and (2) the placing of bones in a ossuary made of stone where they were kept. Jesus lost His flesh but apparently not His basis.

The other women took care of step one when they came to preserve Jesus with oils when He was entombed. So, Mary’s purpose was for something else: She was preparing Jesus, I would bet, for His photograph! Indeed, that picture has now been seen throughout the world so that Jesus even accomplished the “Great Commission” after His death. The picture is not of just a man; but the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In a sense, it too is the picture of the baptism of Jesus in blood and Living Water in the manner of the baptism of John, but the “water” was this time, the Waters of the Holy Spirit that came from the belly of God to re-assembly the “Last Adam” and a “quickening spirit” (1 Cor 15:45).

That takes care of the loose ends. It was not just the “head” of Jesus that had nard applied to it, but the entire body. Matthew was just being polite in the company of his peers if that is true.

Lacking as of now is the source of the light that burned the picture of the Godhead into the covering. The source can be found in scripture as well. At dawn the darkness still hovered over the tomb of Jesus; and there came Mary Magdalene. She saw the Tekton at His work! 

Behold, there was a great earthquake: for the Angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. (Mat 28:2-3) 

There came a flash of Light from the Angel of God as if a picture was being taken in the contrast of the darkness. His countenance, or appearance, was like lightening. I believe the Holy Ghost — the Phantom of God — flashed His Image onto the covering of Jesus dead body, and re-Spirited it. In other words, the Holy Ghost came onto Jesus like Light.

Throughout scripture, “The Angel of God” is always the Presence of God in phantom form. Jocob wrestled with the Angel of God who was of a different “substance” but was in the shape of a man (Gen 32). It was not a literal wrestling match, but the Hebrew word for that meant “vapor.” Living Water would have come onto Jacob and He somehow won. I believe that God endowed Jacob with His Image — the Spirit of God in bodily shape.

In a sense, the Angel of God “wrestled” with the still body of Jesus and Jesus won! In modern terms, Jesus got His groove back; His Holy Ghost returned to Him, and there remains a picture to prove it.  The “Vapor” of the Holy Spirit would have passed through the covering as if it was not even there, as God overcame the world again.

Now for some science… neutrinos pass through hard things as if stone is not even there. Neutrinos are sub-atomic particles that are impervious to matter. The substance of the Holy Ghost is not a neutrino, but the Power of God behaves in much the same way.

First off, the tomb was empty when it was opened. Envision this now; there remained only the so-called “Shroud” and a folded face cloth. The Shroud would have been exactly where Jesus had been laid to rest. Perhaps. Mary Magdalene saw the picture on the burial cloth and saw exactly where Jesus had been placed the day before. It does appear that the “napkin” had gone unused so that the face of Jesus would not be erased to reveal that this was a picture of a real man.

That Angel of God was the same quickening Spirit of God that endowed Adam with His Image. The Angel was the “Shadow” of Light, or Phantom, that is the Holy Spirit in bodily shape.

Imagine now this scenario: The Angel of God — an Image of Light — passed right through the burial cloth into the body of Jesus, leaving behind the exact Image of the “Object” Jesus in the form of a negative Image, or a “Shadow.” In a sense, if my conjecture is true, then the Shroud of Turn reveals the Image of God in the bodily shape of a man. It is a picture of Yahweh — the “Angel” that “wrestled” with Adam and with Jacob.

Yes, Yahweh, the Angel of God, “wrestled” with Adam as well: “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). When the Angel of God breathed life onto Jesus, He too became the “Last Adam” — a living soul. God took a picture of the glorification of Jesus, and ironically, Eve was the “picture” of Adam. The Phantom that was God seemed to have just passed through Adam unto her. The Image of God was perhaps the bodily shape of Jesus like at His baptism.

That the Angel of God passed through walls, and such, is miraculous, it seems, but it is now known that things can pass through other things undetected. Right now, as you read this, neutrinos, it is said, pass right through you as if you are not there, even undetected. If neutrinos can do that, certainly the Holy Spirit of God can pass through the thin flesh of your chromosomes that is in every nuclear cell of your body. Or even through the fibrous covering over the Body of Jesus.

Now, about Jesus who was walking with some men that failed to recognize Him after His glorification, “Their eyes were opened, and they knew Him; and He vanished out of their sight” (Luke 24:31). “Vanished” (aphantos) in that passage as deeper meaning. He immediately became unseen. He disappeared as if a phantom! They saw Jesus in a different light and He seemed not there!

Jesus did not disappear, he translated to another realm and soon appeared in a locked room where the remaining eleven apostles were discussing Him.

Those on the road to Emmaus soon returned to Jerusalem and joined the eleven. Something miraculous occurred: 

And as they thus spoke, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said unto them, “Peace be unto you, but they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. (Luke 24:36-37) 

They thought that Jesus was just Spirit because He reappeared from “nowhere” to them. However, Jesus challenged them to touch Him because He said that He was of flesh and bones. Hower it was not mortal flesh and bones but glorious. He looked like Himself, even with the wounds, but something happened to His old flesh that made Him new.

Nobody thereafter touched Jesus, even Thomas who doubted. His doubt subsided without ever touching Jesus.

Earlier Jesus had said to Mary, after He arose, “Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to My brethren, and say unto them, “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God’” (John 20:17). The Greek root translated “ascend” is “origin” — in English, it is His basis. What is the basis, or genesis, of Jesus? Yahweh. Jesus would neither arise to His origin nor walk to it but gain the Power of Yahweh just as Jesus had said, “Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God” (Luke 22:69).

Something had happened to Jesus; He had lost virtue (dynamos) to save mankind from the sins of the world at His crucifixion, and when He was glorified, his “Shadow,” Yahweh had lost Power to do that! In other words, Jesus had to regain the Power of God for Him to return to His basis — the godhead.

We think of light as illumination, but the basis of light is power. That God is the “Light of the World” does not mean that He is the Sun but that He is the Power that powered the world into existence and keeps it together. In a sense, even gravity is the “Light of God” because even gravity bends to Him!

For instance, a solar eclipse reveals both the omniscience and omnipotence of God. During that interval when the Moon passes between us and the Sun, the Moon and Sun appear to be the same size. What are you seeing? God’s Power. They cast a shadow on the Earth and the observer knows by the shadow what is happening with the objects above even without looking at them. That too acknowledges the Existence of God. Paul said to the Romans, “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead” (Rom 1:20).

That the sizes, densities, and distances of those two bodies are perfect during an eclipse proves the Existence of God. So, does the Shroud of Jesus: it is the picture of the Shadow of both bodies just as is an eclipse. God places and holds the Sun and Moon together to form a shadow, so why could He not do the same with the two “Bodies” of God?

In a Platonian manner the shadow of the Moon is cast onto the Earth by the light of the Sun. Hence, the shadow, like Plato indicates, is a “fragment” of the real thing. In like manner, the Holy Ghost — the “Shadow” of Jesus — is as real as the objective man, Jesus. The shadow of Jesus goes where He goes, and that Shadow, or Phantom Image, is Yahweh. That invisible Being from the foundation of the world is understood by the created Thing — the body of Jesus.

In a similar manner, the burial covering of Jesus, if that is true, bears the “Shadow” of the man, Jesus. The Image in the fabric is in the negative just like a picture negative. It is indeed difficult to see the Image. However, when reversed, the Image is clearly of the man, Jesus, and not just His “Shadow.”

I submit that the “picture” that we call, the “Shroud of Turin” is both a photograph of the Man and His Shadow, the Holy Ghost, depending on the filter in which it is viewed. If that garment does anything, it reveals that Jesus is God in the flesh, and the process for that was done in the tomb by the Power of God.

There you have what I call “The Quantum God” who appears from His Dynamics, when stopped, as either a Man or a Ghost. The Dynamic of God was the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. Luke revealed that those Images are indeed the Power that was revealed as the Holy Ghost on that occasion (Acts 2).

We often forget that the “Creator” God was His Power, and only when at rest does He reveal Himself as either Yahweh or Jesus and the Holy Ghost is the substance of Yahweh.

Don’t gloss over the Godhead. We often forget the cloud and the pillar of fire that contain the Power of God in action. The third part of the Holy Trinity is the Virtue that heals, saves, and takes photos of miracles. The Power of God entered the tomb of Jesus, as if it was a photographic dark room, and burnt an Image of both the Ghost of Jesus and the Object Jesus on cloth for posterity.

Now imagine the process of glorification; Jesus lies still within the cubby of the tomb. What did people do in early photography? Nothing; they remained still as if dead! Jesus was “asleep” as He would say… that His Dynamic was robbed of Him because of the loss of Virtue when He
“healed the nations” (Rev 22:2); where He is symbolized as “The Tree of Life.”

Jesus did suffer death and was weakened, even pierced. Surely His heart no longer beat! In a sense, Jesus had fallen asleep (koimao). The root word in the Greek is “keimai.” meaning “of things that quietly cover some spot” (Strong 2006).

Remember God giving life? He breathed life unto Adam. When the Holy Ghost had gone out from Jesus, life had left Him. He was not dead but stilled as if to take a photograph! That does not diminish Jesus because he still suffered the agony of death.

So there lies Jesus immobile. He is prepared for what was to come and indeed this glorious event was planned. Nobody but God was responsible for it was Him that sacrificed His “Son.” It was not His offspring but His Own Image; think of “Son” as the “Genome” that would be the invisible (chromosomal) substance of Yahweh.

Father God, seeing the loss of Virtue from His invisible Image would have engendered Jesus again by the filling of the Holy Spirit to reveal the Holy Ghost.

Now remember that Spirit is pneuma in the Greek: the wind, cloud, tongue of fire, and so forth. Only when stopped was the Holy Spirit the Holy Ghost. They are not interchangeable but different forms of the same Divine Dynamic.

While still in the tomb, Yahweh would have imbued Himself into the lifeless Body of the Christ. The Shroud captured that event, if I have it right. The Image on the Shroud is of both the Body and Ghost of God, depending how it is viewed. What we can’t see but know that it is there is the Creator God; His Divine Power that burned the Images of both the Body and Ghost of Jesus onto cloth. Again, I say, that burial cloth is a picture of the Godhead!

So, from where did the Power of God come? The Angel of the Lord God who had been in the tomb both snapping the picture and processing it in a sense. He had that capacity for “His countenance was like lightning, and His raiment white as snow” (Mat 28:3).

Now imagine this: That “Angel” was invisible Image, or Phantom, of God that was made visible to Mary. Jesus saw the Image as she would a man. That makes sense, because the Holy Ghost was visible to some even at the crucifixion. They even wrote about seeing Jesus give up the Ghost. Mary saw the gloried Jesus who surely passed through the walls of the tomb and rolled the stone away, not for Him to get out but to let others see in.

Now consider the burial cloth. The Light of the Angel of God in bodily shape passed through the organic material that basically burnt the carbon from it where the skin touched it. The carbon, if that is true, would have discolored the cloth because of the intense light. The photo-chemicals within the spikenard provided the right atmosphere to promote the process just as the chemicals used in the dark room.

As the Image of the Angel passed though, the Shekinah Light of God would have burned the Image of the Angel onto the cloth, and as Jesus was raised from His sleep, His glorified Body then had the Power to Pass through; hence both the Images of the Body and Ghost of Jesus was emblazoned on the cloth, thus burning a picture of the glorification process. That Shroud caught the very instant in time when God revealed all three of His Substances on cloth. The picture is perhaps one of the Godhead — “The Holy Trinity.”

Mary first saw the Angel of Jesus and as soon as she left, then she saw Jesus somewhat later. Jesus could overcome the world and as later scripture reveals, can appear objectively and vanish unto His unseen Image.

Why not touch the gloried Body of Jesus? Perhaps because it was still developing; perhaps if Thomas had touched Jesus, his hand would have just passed through the flesh as if it was not even there.

What did you see at the crucifixion of Jesus. Some that were around Him saw the body of a man. Others saw the Holy Ghost of Jesus leaving. Some saw the Power of God leaving the Body of God. I believe that Dismus, the repentant thief, saw the Man, His Ghost, and the Power to save mankind. Dismus saw the Godhead, and now we have a fairly clear picture of the Holy Trinity on cloth that reveals the mysterious Power of God.

 

THE END…  or is it?