THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE

 Theology is the study of both God and the things of God whereas science is the study of things and their origins — “ontology”. The word, “science” stems from the Latin, “scientia” meaning “knowledge” in general in the English.

The study of existence is “metaphysics”, having two parts ontology and cosmology. Metaphysics asks, "What is reality?", while cosmology asks the question, "How did the universe begin and develop?"

The Bible provides answers to those questions; The Book of Genesis is both the cosmology and ontology of the universe. As an ancient book, scientific processes would have been explained using metaphors.

When reading the Bible, especially The Old Testament (Tanakh, an acronym that represents the Hebrew writings); look for metaphors… examples explaining in simple terms complex ideas.  The Hebrew “Torah” is the book of the Law in the manner that physics is a book of natural law.

The original Hebrew letters, or pictographs, would be metaphors for complex ideas. Those strange look symbols in Hebrew dictionaries each have very scientific meanings.

The Torah is a fine example, spelled תורה reading from right to left. There is meaning in those strange looking characters. [1]

Using scientific meanings, תורה which is spelled tav – nun – resh – hey provides answers.

The letter tav presents “scientific information”, or in theology and philosophy “truth”.  The Torah, in the manner of a science book, endeavors to present information.

“Information” is literally factual knowledge… however science is merely theoretical with truth never quite discovered, but only a body of evidence.  

Science is the study of observable or measurable things. In science, truth is supposed, then tested. So is theological truth: “Test all things and hold onto what is good” (1 Thes 5:1). So, there is much commonality between science and theology; even their intent — in search of knowledge.

Ancient men had a much different vocabulary as words like science, processes, quantum, and such did not yet exist. In fact, “The Word” would have been presented in picture graphics (pictographs) — objective images of mental ideas. Truth was represented by the letter tav, so the Torah (תורה) began with the idea of the presentation of truth.

The second letter in Torah is vav; in science, quantum entanglement is represented by a tent peg, the vav. In theology the vav represents the same thing — binding forces, ostensibly binding the letter tav to the letter resh, coming next. The letter resh scientifically represents the emergence of order from an origin point — the “beginning” in both science and theology. Hence, truth and the beginning are entangled as one thought.

The last letter is the Hebrew hey — the picture of a man with hands raised, indicating “beheld” Beholding what? Observing reality, or truth.

Hence, “Torah” is an ancient scientific term that explains the creation. It is not mythology, but the Torah is a way to present observable reality, or the “truth”.

In the beginning would have been, in scientific terms, the zero point energy field. In theology, the point “El” in “Elohim” is where El is God and Elohim his quantum probability function.

God is omnipresent (present everywhere in theology). How can that be? Quantum mechanics is beyond time as the prefix “omni” represents.

Quantum theory is that some particle seems to be right there when it is stopped wherever it is. So, it might be with God (El). In other words, the dynamics of God is very well explained by a quantum probability field, or in theology, either a cloud by day or a fire by night (Exod 33:22); then at rest on the Ark of the Covenant, God appeared as El. His presence follows quantum physics exactly.

That is not to say that God is science, but scientific terms are stated in different ways. Since God is real, then He should be observable scientifically. Quantum physics is a very good lens to observe God in any of His three states: Father (El), the Son (Bet), and the Holy Ghost (Gimmel).

Since science means “knowledge”, is there knowledge in scripture? About everyone has heard of both the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil:

 

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  (Gen 2:9)

 

“Out of the ground” may have some intrinsic meaning.

“Ground” therein is adama. From the man, Adam, God grew things. Hence, Adam was like God, both an individual and a kind as the letter mem implies. Adam would have been scientific and capable of consuming knowledge, requiring intelligence.

Knowledge from God “grew” (tsamach; צָמַח) things: tsade — mem — chet: a quantum path, fluid dynamics, and limits (different states of existence), respectively. In theology, God made things right (righteousness), by “living water” (Elohim), in two different realms, respectively.

“Tree that was pleasant” comes next. Was the author writing about trees or using “trees” as metaphors? Let’s examine that.

“Tree” in that passage is the Hebrew word, ‘es (עֵץ), translated “tree” but more generally it was a firm thing (Strong 2006). Of course, a tree is a firm thing, but so are all things in the Creation.

The first letter in ‘es is ayin, a pictograph of an eye, which means observable. The second letter shin implies fusion by some power. An observable quantumly fused thing is the construction of all firm things.

Hence, in this case, a tree was not only a “tree” but any firm thing, even men as trees, according to the blind man seeing the firm thing of God, Jesus, approaching (Mark 8:24).

Therefore, among moving firm things were mankind “after our likeness” (Elohim), the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. (Gen 1:26); with man having dominion — of a higher state — than any of the other moving firm things. Mankind had dominion — the body of knowledge of God — righteousness, or truth.

The other kinds were lacking dominion and would all have been base creatures without righteousness, or the truth non-cognitive. The lower states of animals would have been base creatures that only had the instinct for self-survival. Only Adamic man was like God with a “particle” of Elohim in him.

Scripture was defining the states of firm things and foremost among them was Adam whose spiritual state was God, , within a firm thing, his body, or “Jesus”.

The Tree of Life as it turns out seems to be Yeshua (Jesus; Rev 22:2). Adam would have had the knowledge of God within his mind, hence innocence from doing evil.

Without critically analyzing every word in Genesis 2:9, let’s skip on to “knowledge”.

If you recall scientia in the Latin is “knowledge”, so the alternate tree whose fruit was not to be partaken was the “Tree of Science.”

Both good and evil imply extended knowledge, not just the good body of knowledge but evil as well. Obtaining the full body of knowledge, Adam’s kind lost their innocence and would have become responsible for wrong choices. Hence, the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge would not have been apples nor figs, but “free will” to choose as enumerated in Galatians chapter five.

The two people of Adam’s kind had something the lower states of animals did not — the freedom to choose right from wrong. Now instinctive, Adam’s kind would generally take the path of least resistance; they became instinctual, doing the things that the lower states of existence would do. Sin lowered their state of existence from glorious man to beasts; hence, the term, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).

Only mankind has three states: thoughts, spirit, and flesh. The other beasts have lower cognition, no spirit, and beastly flesh. By now, as can be seen on the streets of big cities, men are more “beasts” than godly. They are double-minded, holding opposing thoughts at the same time; they are truly deranged and beside themselves.

Now consider, Hebrew daʿaṯ. (It looks like this may have been the Hebrew idea of the English word, “data”.)

Daʿaṯ (spelled דַּעַת) consists of dalet (door) – ayin (eye) – tav (a cross).

Theologically, the letter dalet is the “Way” of Jesus who John described as the “Word” in the beginning (John 1:1-14).

Scientifically, the dalet means a quantum gateway.

As the “Almighty God” the virtue (Greek, dynamos) of Jesus provides the gateway to heaven; and strait is the gate or as Jesus said it, “Strait is the Gate, and narrow is the Way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it” (Mat 7:14). Hence the quantum gateway very adequately describes the “Way” of Jesus.

Through the door (dalet) leads to ayin, in science “quantum observation” — the ability to see things beyond the naked eye. Adam’s kind were naked while in the Garden. They would have seen things beyond the naked eye. (Sacred literature provides the evidence that that is true.) [2]

In theology, ayin presents divine vision and consciousness. Knowledge made the two salient — aware of themselves as independent consciences from God. They had become the “gods” (Gen 3:5) with a higher state of awareness than God intended. They would have become aware of their flesh and put on aprons of fig leaves (Gen 3:7). They would have been dutiful only to God, but soon, they would have been aware of their flesh and the pleasures it senses.

Lastly, in the word da’at comes the letter tav; in science “completion”, and in philosophy and theology, “truth”.

Literally, then knowledge (da’at) is the “gateway to observe truth”. Therefore, da’at is both science and the Way of Christ Jesus.

Because of sin, you are salient men and women conscious of your existence apart from God but seemingly blind to what small amount of Elohim that remains in you. Born again (John 3:7) is perhaps scientific as well. The Greek word for it means “engendered from above”.  

“Engendered” is both scientific and theological. It is God breathing El into a person, or Elohim in persons. In science, el is Power and elohim the distribution of power (virtue), or perhaps the quantum action of Almighty God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] I have developed two charts to reveal all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and both their theological and scientific meanings. They are shown at the end of this commentary.

[2] The “Books of Adam and Eve” (pseudepigraphal works).

THE GRACE OF GOD: JUST WHAT IS IT?

  

A key concept in the Bible is the concept of grace. Covenant theology divides existence into covenants rather than time.

The covenant in the beginning, for instance, was one of innocence — the knowledge of good alone.

Evil was an unknown concept for sin had not yet altered the states of Adamic man.  Gone unnoticed by most covenant theologians is that Adam was still the son of God and protected by the grace of God, to wit: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them” (Gen 3:21). They were covered, or fixed, by grace.

A covenant is what? In the Hebrew beriyth — a “cutting”. Hence a covenant is (in the English) “creating”. Hence, the first act of God was a covenant, “In the beginning God created, or “cut” (bara') the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1). For what reason? Grace. Without revealing the reason, God “cut” (bara) His Kingdom into two: “heaven” and “earth”.

God is Existence Himself as “I AM” indicates (Exod 3:14). In a manner of speaking, God crucified Himself into two; He cut Himself for a purpose — for mankind to exist. If that was a covenant, it would have been one of generosity as the word “genesis” indicates.

The word “crucify” comes from Latin language and means to “fix” or to “fasten”.

Jesus said, “It is finished” at the crucifixion. What was finished? His coming apart; in the beginning God had been cut, and in the ending fixed, “raised (Greek, egeiro) from the dead.” Egeiro means that God was assembled (Strong 2006).

Within the first verse of the Bible is the word “et” in the Hebrew. It appears twice in that same passage and in the Hebrew is has no meaning, The Jews are blind to the letters aleph- tav (אֵת) in the Word, et.

אֵת stands between the heaven/the earth. אֵת refers to God/Jesus. אֵת is the beginning and the end (Rev 1:8), signified by the Greeks words, alpha and omega — the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Then Jesus would be the aleph - tav in the Hebrew. He, as “ET”, would be the beginning and the end.

In the beginning was only the Aleph, or El (God) and in the end on the cross, tav, where it was finished.

El is the Existence of God in Power, Elohim the generation of all things, and the letter tav completion. In the beginning the Power of God would have been cut for He made all things from Himself (El) from His Power (Elohim), and covenanted (cut) Himself into two things, heaven and earth. The sharing of God’s (El’s) power would be the grace of God and Jesus as both the heaven – earth, Spirit and Body, made Him whole again.

Since God was cut apart in the beginning, therefore when He gave up the Ghost in the ending, He was cut apart again as His Spirit separated from His divine Body.

In the beginning “ET” would have been Aleph, or El, and the letter tav — the knife of cross that cuts; hence the letter tav would have been the crucifix where God was fixed and cut apart a second time, again by grace.

It seems that the only covenant ever was by grace, or favor. In the beginning God favored Adam’s kind by grace. He looked at all the creatures and cut them into portions just as He would have the Israelites do at the annual sacrifice for sin.

The other kinds were there, but God cut the living creatures into parts — Adam’s kind from all the kinds. Adam was favored; hence a second act of grace comes from the beginning as well:

 

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” (Gen 1:26)

 

“Let us make” in that passage is simply the Hebrew word, “asa” (עָשָׂה).  The word “us” is not even in there. Literally, asa is ayin – shin – hey: ayin observation, shin biting, and hey the breath of God. God had again divided the waters from the waters — the seed from the seed — and Adam, of all the kinds, was favored by God. “Dominion” indicates that Adam was favored above all the other kinds. That too was an act of grace.

Then after God’s favored kind, Adam, failed, “Noah found grace” (Gen 6:8). Grace pre-existed Noah but he was not hunting for it, albeit was freely given to him from God. Noah would have been the antitype of Adam born again. The sacred Book of Jasher indicates that Noah was born a favored kind even in the womb.

Grace seems to be when the “Seed” of God enters the flesh of a mere man. Hence, “born again” is just that. However, the seed of God is not semen, but “Living Waters” from His “Belly” (John 7:38). Hence living waters would be the Elohim from God’s sole existence, El and perhaps the “belly” in that metaphor. Grace would be the distribution of the Elohim from El.

It is critical to understand that there were not many gods but one God (El) who came apart (Elohim) to enter other things, among them mankind.

El would be the bearer of grace and Elohim His dynamic grace of virtue, or goodness. Adam would have had Elohim from El put into his body. The word, “dominion” from the Hebrew means “crumble”. A particle of Elohim would have entered Adam, and not the other creatures.

Metaphorically, Adam crumbled from Almighty God (El Shaday). The mightiness of God would be ample grace to do all things. Scientifically, grace is akin to God distributing the quantum Power from Himself and giving power to those of His kind — Adam.

The Hebrew word hen (or chen) is translated as “grace”. Its letters are חֵן — chet – nun.

The letter nun represents seed or sperm. It would have come from something — chet. Chet purveys the idea of new beginnings, or a new creation, as in, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17).

For grace, the chet would indicate newness and the nun a creature. Hence, grace is a transformation from an old creature to a new creature. God did that and so does the Spirit of God in Jesus — the El in Yeshua (Jesus).

Jesus sits at the right hand in the Power (Elohim) (Mat 26:24) of God (El). Elohim flows from the Person of God Jesus as “dynamos” (virtue). Therefore, the virtue leaving Jesus to make whole would have been the Elohim from El within the Person of God, Jesus. Again the “substance” of grace would be the Power of God, unseen but as real as any infinite horsepower engine.

Grace was sufficient enough in the beginning to make all things from God, El, Himself, and so it will be at the regeneration of all things: Speaking of the Tree of Life when the Garden Paradise is restored, John saw “the leaves of the Tree (of Life) were for the healing of the nations” (Rev 22:2) — therapeia ho ethnos, a “rendering of a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus” (Strong 2006). Simply put, us old creatures will be rendered new creatures by the might of God (Elohim).

Coming from the Revelation, grace is the last act of God to render some of the old creatures, new creatures, not literally from the leaves of a tree, but the Elohim of the firm Thing of God, Jesus.

Grace always emanates from God in whatever form or state that He appears. Grace is as real as God. To understand the reality of God, God manifested Himself as the divine man, Jesus. John also saw the El in Jesus transforming (Elohim) others by grace: “(Jesus) manifested forth His glory; and his disciples believed on Him” (John 2:11).

The Body of God — Jesus — emanated the glory of God to transform His disciples. Grace would be the emanation of the Glory, or Light (Elohim), of God (El). Of course, Light is ‘or in the Hebrew, but Elohim would be the Light of God shining forth. The substance of that dynamic would be the distribution of grace from God.

Light is also called truth (1 John 1:5). Truth is reality, is it not? About God the psalmist sang, “O send out Your light and Your truth” (Psalm 43:3). God is the Light and its emanation is the truth. Jesus is the reality of God (El) and Elohim His truth.

Like Plato and Pilate, ask yourselves, “What is truth?” Jesus revealed the truth at the crucifixion; that He was El, Elohim, and the Person of God in one — Father, Holy Ghost, and Son, respectively.

Grace therefore comes from God without charge, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8).

Can you emanate God? No! Do you trust that God emanates Elohim to cut a new person from the old creature? Can you do that? If not, then you are not Jesus.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb 11:1)

Faith is the substance of grace, and it is the hope of reality. Hope is cognitive. So, you have faith; it is not of yourselves but from God. Faith according to Paul is that Jesus is the evidence of the unseen God, so trusting Jesus is the Way; to what? Life (the Hebrew letter chet).

Life (chet) comes from the Light of God, or truth. The repentant thief on the cross alongside Jesus encountered truth; that Jesus was (and remains so) God in the flesh. He encountered grace with that realization, so the substance of truth and grace is not works (ergo) but thoughts (katergazomai); to work out salvation how so? By cognition, considering Jesus and seeing the invisible God. Nothing else saves but coming to that realization, the same as when the thief encountered God in the flesh of a common man and realize that He could save him from Hell.

The substance of grace was that realization. Jesus showed the man His three states — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and all the man had to do was nothing, but consider the truth and conform to it. Hence, the Substance of grace is surely the Thoughts of God.

 Scientifically, that is called quantum entanglement. The thief was not physically entangled, but his thoughts were from Jesus. Jesus persuaded the man that He was God in the flesh by His actions. Grace is therefore divine illumination — truth from the Mind of God. You cannot illuminate yourself, but God can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION

 The dictionary definition of the word “election” might provide some insight; the most general which is “the right, power, or privilege of making a choice” (Merriam-Webster 2025). Only God is sovereign, so He has the privilege of granting anything. Because of the influence of Calvinism in the western world, there is also a religious meaning, “predestination to eternal life” (ibid).

In search of the truth, therefore the concept of predestination must be explored.

Predestining is essentially predetermining before-hand an end result as Paul wrote:

 

(God) has chosen us (the favored) in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will… (Ephes 1:4-5)

 

Ask yourselves questions like, Who are the “us”? Paul revealed them in the first verse of that letter: “…the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus” (Ephes 1:1). God favored those who were faithful, so election depends of faith.

Now for the word “saints” we will turn to the Hebrew; “O love the Lord, all you His saints for the Lord preserves the faithful and plentifully rewards the proud doer” (Psalm 31:22).

A “His saints” the Hebrew word is “hasid”. The letter “hey” is the “His” in Engish, and the meaning of hasid is “His kind” that are faithful to Him.

The key word for saint is “faithful” — a “proud doer” from Psalm 31, not a proud lazy person Hence, the saints can be recognized by their deeds. It is not that deeds make them saints, but that saints must do good deeds or works.

Paul was extremely informative, patiently defining many religious terms: He wrote, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). Thus a “saint” has faith evidenced by the things that he does.

God is a “kind” whose main attribute is loving-kindness. Hence, His kind are to love both Him and the all the other creatures like us that God has made — “The Greatest Commandment”. Saints are manifested, therefore, by loving-kindness. Faith operationalized would be revealed in love and kindness. Angry, hateful people are not saints regardless of their claims.

The next question is What is faith? Paul said that “faith is the substance of things hoped for.” “Substance” means both real faith and that the things hoped for are believed to be real.  What is the hope of Christians? Heaven, eternal life, the Presence of God, harmonious existence, perfect health, the lack of stress, without animosity, and so forth.

That environment is “Paradise”, not in this realm, but the realm of heaven. Since God is the Sovereign there, the citizens in His realm must be like their King, the “Big Guy” who sits on the throne in another realm.

Faith is dependent on you; what you think. Both God and the things of God must be real to you, and the paramount degree of faith is that Jesus is the Person of the invisible God.

The things hoped for must be real to you — substantive.

Paradise must be for real to you, God be for real as Jesus, and that your own soul has the real Substance of God to be His son and worthy of His Estate there. You cannot be just a pretender to God but an actual adopted son of God with Him in you.

Hence, election is not from yourself, but since God is sovereign, only God can elect. God has a plan and a future for you, according to Jeremiah (Jer 29:11). That pre-existed the creation of the world. Scripture is quite correct in predestination, but just whom did God predestine? John seemed to have known the plans of God quite well, according to John 1; and he revealed the elect that God favored even before time ever began:

…Whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life for God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life; for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:15-17)

Who are “us”, as asked before? “Whosoever” that believes in Him. God, as the true Sovereign reserves the right to establish an orderly process for fairness.

The metric for “election” is belief. That word requires examination; pisteuo in the original Greek — trust in God with confidence that Jesus is God, and that as God, He can save. Belief alone is not enough but trust and confidence are the real metrics. Therefore, election is God’s plan from the beginning and is based on who does, and who does not, have confidence in Him

The first sin was essentially trusting the word of some Beast more so than the Word of God who said, “Do not eat.”  

Adam had been favored for He had dominion over the other beasts of the field (Gen 1:26). God favored Adam and his kind (as the mem in adam represents) by putting Himself in the body of the first man. Adam was just a thing until God breathed life unto him. Adam and his kind were the original elect, and as it appears, the Elohim of God (El) filled the inner man of Adam.

(Whereas God is one (El) His Spirit is Elohim, not many, but omnipresent.)

Although God predestined Adam by putting a fragment of Himself in proto-man, sin blotted out the Elohim in him and his woman. Why so? They had more confidence in a talking Beast than in God Himself, and the Beast persuaded the woman that it was God and that she could be as well (Gen 4:1).

Albeit Adam and his kind were elected and were the original “whosoever”, they lacked confidence and lost favor of God who they once favored. They did not deny God but favored real things more so.

Apostasy (apostasia in the Greek; Heb 6:6) means “defection”. Adam’s kind, once having affection for God in whom they knew and trusted, defected from God in favor of the Beast.

Since original sin, mankind has favored the Beast to God, as John wrote, for God seemed to reveal the beginning to him as He did the ending:

 

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. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)

 

Now, ask yourself who is “you”? in that passage. Those who believed in God but failed to trust Him (i.e., the seed of Abraham; John 8:41).

You can believe, but still be of the Wicked One, for even demons believe (Jas 2:19). Neither did God elect all the angelic kingdom, but selected only Adam’s kind, for God loved him so much that He put Himself (Elohim) into that one man to pass down to Adam’s kind.

According to John 3:16, Adam’s kind should not have perished, but they have due to their own volition. God elected all of Adam’s kind to be His people, and Him be their God, but they favored the Beast more so, and since all of Adam’s kind are more like the Beast than God, according to John, it was genetic from the original sin.

“Born again” (John 3:7) is literally “engendered from above” (Strong 2006). In the beginning the Most High (sovereign) God engendered Adam with Elohim — love from His own Existence (El Saday). Even now, God from above can do the same at regeneration as He did at the generation. As it turns out, God can engender anyone, anytime according to His will. God sees potential in some faithful people and others He created faithful.

Once Adam sinned, God passed the baton to Abel, not Cain, and with Abel dead, the election “baton” went to Seth (Gen 4).

When Seth’s kind (“sons of God”) failed (Gen 6:4), then God passed the baton to Noah who found grace (Gen 6:8) that was of God for free and underserved, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8).

From whom does faith derive? From a remnant of Elohim in us because we too are Adam’s kind. We are not totally depraved, but have the seed of God in us that must be sparked by the Light of God to create a fire in us whose flame we must keep ablaze as scripture reveals. By grace, God lights the fire, but faith is keeping the fire burning. God’s command was, “The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out” (Lev 6:13). Only we can make the working sacrifice, and albeit God is the Pillar of Fire that ignites us, we are told to never let the fire go out. That takes great diligence and confidence.

Believing one time will not keep the fire burning but vigilance will… “Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Prov 4:23).

Faith begins with persuasion. God provides the evidence, then we test it and hold onto what is good (1 Thes 5:1).

Indeed, God is sovereign and rules, but it is us who are the household of God that must obey His divine Will.

Faith is variable all the way from: the lack of faith, to a little faith, to faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, to great faith, to the faith of Abraham, to the faith of God.

That you know that you are saved “without a shadow of doubt” implies it is you that is the sovereign with the right to judge yourselves. Admittedly, I am humbled and have the hope that God saves me by grace.

What is a “shadow of a doubt”? Because we are not God, everybody at times have doubt, and if you think not, you even lie to yourselves. If there is no doubt, then why are you not moving mountains and such, or even simple things like trusting healing by faith? That is crazy talk even to most evangelicals.

However, so many today are so arrogant — God pre-ordained me, they think. They did not you, they continue. I have God in me, and you do not!

Why would God elect only those who enter the doors of a reformed church and whose doctrine is Calvin’s. That makes Calvin the pontificus maximus  — “The Lord of lords”.

I follow Christ Jesus despite Calvin’s decoherence.

It is true, Adam’s kind was predestined and elected, but that waned, not due to God, but due to them. They lost their first love, El, and fornicated with another “god” (Lucifer). Once loving God, they gradually defected from Him to the Devil, and now they have the Devil in their genetics and in dire need of rebirth, according to Jesus, who said “You must be” (John 3:7).

That is your choice, and your election belongs to you because the Sovereign God delegated it to you. A gracious God does not force anyone to do anything. His grace is not irresistible except for very few incidences.

Adam found grace when not seeking it, and so did Abel. Then Noah found grace and soon lost it like Adam before him. God did not remove grace, but people gave it up without even resisting.

Then Abraham found grace because he chose God over the idols that his father Terah had made for King Nimrod. The god/king Nimrod would never be his sovereign for he retained confidence in God withstanding the fire of Ur. Abram faced great tribulation,  and his faith saved him. Soom his faith (birthright) was passed down to Isaac, then Jacob so that the Hebrews became the elect.

The Hebrew lost trust in God while in Egypt in sin. They wandered until they died and never fully had faith in God. Moses was elected to lead them out of sin into the Holy Land. Their destination was not really the Land of Canaan but Paradise in heaven. They failed to understand God but followed Moses wherever he led them. Their faith in God was given to Moses, and again, God’s elect slid down the rabbit hole into Hell. The Jews remain the elect as well but in God’s time, no theirs.

Then after Moses, the baton of grace was passed to Joshua, and he became the “Jesus” in whom they had faith.

Soon, King David and “sons of David”, the Israelites, got the baton and Israel split in two because of the sins of King Ahab and his wife Jezebel who both lost affection for God and favored the Wicked One.

By the time of Jesus, only the Jews remained of all the elect of Adam’s kind. The God came to this world in the Person of Jesus so that all mankind could see Jesus and have faith in God, but the Jews rejected God in favor of Moses and his priests.

Then God grabbed the baton of grace back for Himself to hand off, and then those who followed Christ Jesus became the elect, “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should shew forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Pet 2:9).

Hence, over the course of human events, the elect of God changed with the onset of rejection by those who were the elect before them. With that said, God abandoned endless genealogies (Tit 3:9) and “whosoever” inherited the grace of God, despite their credentials as supposed sons of God. It was a faith thing and who God thought could endure for the long haul as James wrote:

 

Blessed is the man that endures temptation (without sinning) for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love Him. (Jas 1:12)

 

Blessedness is inheriting the Kingdom of God, to wit:

 

Every one that has forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Name's sake (Jesus), shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. (Mat 19:29)

 

Hence, inheritance, or divine election, is an individual thing (everyone) based on whosoever abandons the things of the world for Jesus. That rings true for working faith is not cheap grace!

“Cheap grace” is essentially accepting the goodness of God without becoming His servant. It’s like the lazy servant of a king who hates the things and ways of the king but prefers a sloven life to that of royal living.

Despots make things irresistible. Despots sentence people without good cause. Despots make servants, willing or not, to endure his rule to the end. Despots limit their grace. Despots call people “totally depraved”. Despots refer to common people as “a basket of deplorables”. God, however, sees the potential in everyone. God is no Despot!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall… (2 Pet 1:9-10)

 

These “ things” in the above are godly characteristics listed in the previous verses such as “godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity (2 Pet 1:7)

 

WHAT IS MAN?

 

What is man, that You should magnify him? and that You should set Your heart upon him? (Job 7:17)

 

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (Job 15:14)

 

What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the Son of Man, that You visit Him? (Psalm 8:4)

 

Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him! or the Son of Man, that You make account of Him! (Psalm 144:3)

 

So, just what is “man”? Hidden within the English, but exposed in the Hebrew, are two kinds of man. First consider the eighth psalm above.

The word “what” is “ma” in the Hebrew: mem – hey, meaning “What kind (or beheld from the letter hey)? David was asking two questions; (1) what is common, mortal man (enos), and (2) what is the glorious man (adam) — the son (ben).

Ben in the Hebrew is the “builder”. The builder of what? Nun: the seed, waters. or genetics of the Builder. Of course, according to John (John 1), God is the Builder and Jesus (Yeshua) His seed.

Jesus is a special man — the very Elohim of El seeded in one man (adam). In royal terms, therefore the “Son of Man” is of “The House of Adamic man”, and Adam from the “House of God”.

El owns the glorious Estate of the world — both the visible and the invisible. As Jesus was of the “House of God”, He would be the sovereign king of all things in existence.

The silly politicians that crucified Jesus didn’t care about the real Estate of God but the lower estate of Judea with Jesus as the “son of David” and rightful heir to that one throne. Jesus saying, “They know not what they do” (Luke 23:34) was an understatement for they killed the King of kings and Lord of lords of all creation (Rev 19:6).

Hence, the “Son of Man” means that Jesus had within His Adamic kind of flesh the very seed of God. Adamic flesh is a glorified covering of some sort, as the letter bet indicates.

Now consider what is man: “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” (1 Cor 15:45). From the Greek, the first man Adam is protos anthropos adam with adam retaining the Hebrew for “man”.

Man (“Adam”, also retained in English) was the original Adam signified by protos. The first man, Adam, was the proto man whose form was anthropoidal (anthropoidea — a suborder of higher primates). Hence, Adam “man” was a higher state than the common, mortal man, called “enos” in the Hebrew.

Adam was made “a living soul” with uprightness, or the highest state of all the primates. He was a higher state of man because Adam’s person contained elohim life within, not just any life but the very essence of God that was breathed unto him.

Sin surely degenerated Adam’s kind — the male and female — for soon after sin they noticed a change in their bodies. They would have acquired flesh like the other beasts of the field, implied by the aprons that they made to cover their sexual organs (Gen 3:7).

What is man (enos)? A lower state than Adam’s kind. Enos man was a lower state than before sin. Of what substance was original Adam remains unknown, but it was inorganic as his Name implies, “clay”, of course as a metaphor for incorruptibility.

Proto Adam’s kind would have been inorganic, but with sin became organic and mortal since carbon in all organisms will decay. Hence, before sin, Adam man was immortal and after sin, common man Enos mortal with short lifespans.

What is common man? Decadent just like feces for what they ate they would become.

What is man? Common men are organic and mortal with a short “shelf life”. What was man before the advent of mortal flesh? Immortal and of a glorious incorruptible substance — Sons of God with some elohim in him.

Returning now to Psalm 8:4, “What is man (enos), that You are mindful of him? and the Son (Ben) of Man (Adam), that You visit Him?”

Now consider mortal man, Enos (אֱנוֹשׁ; pronounce en-oshe). Like words, letters mean things in Hebrew.

David wrote only of two sub-kinds of men: adam and enos. However, Cain’s “man” was an“is” (pronounced eesh) from his “wife” mother, issa (Gen 4:1, sounds like eesha).

 Is came from issa alone for she said that she created a “man” for her “lord” instead of the Lord God.

The Beast had warned that they would become as gods, and the woman (issa) implied that she was the god (Gen 4:1). Since “is” is from the woman/wife, issa, and not the male adam (who only watched), then “is” would have been another extant being as the word means. Cain was some other form of life, and with time, Cain would die. Hence, is kind led to mortal men (enos) as well.

Eve made a name for her new kind of male — “Is” (אִישׁ).

Enos comes from the root Hebrew word, meaning weak, or sick (Strong 2006). Therefore, sin weakened original man (the “adam” from the woman) to a lower state.  Mankind was not improved but would have been degenerated. Enos would designate “degenerate” mankind in dire need of mankind improvement. Hence, born again (Gen 3:7) is animal husbandry to make mankind survive.

Now lets take a close look at “Adam” man: the root אָדָם from הָאָדָם. The first letter (on the right) is hey, meaning “breathed” or “revealed”.

The root word is el – dahlet – mem. First off the mem indicates “kind” not just one. The letter dahlet indicates the door, or way and the el the generating Power of God “El” Himself. The name “Adam” fairly well describes the ontology of God’s kind. Adam was not the man’s name but his kind and the woman was of the same kind. With that said, issa (the woman) was the vessel of elohim, the Power of God, as well and she would produce more elohim — God’s glorious kind.

Could it be that God breathed life, not just into one man, but many of Adam’s kind as the mem implies, or was the mem just the living waters of God? After all, God has almighty Power (El shaday). As it may be, intercourse between different states of anthropoids was inevitable.

How did Enos come from Is? Is would pertain to only one man, Cain, but Enos to numbers of men or “mankind.” David was questioning, what is mankind? Then he questioned what is God’s kind? referring to Jesus.

What is man, is? He was from issa, the wife of whom? Note that she was of Adam’s kind as the woman, issa. The woman (issa) was the wife (issa) of the man (adam), but she created is-man herself for her lord.

It appears that Adam was deceived as well as ignorant of procreation. Like an innocent child, he would not have understood that he was watching God’s kind die to be replaced by a new kind of existence (is). Adam’s kind did die as the penalty for eating of the forbidden tree, but another kind arose from his ashes. Some other lower state of man — a beast perhaps — would be required to supply the seed, the letter nun in enos (אֱנוֹשׁ).

Now let’s critique the meaning of the letters in enos.

Aleph is characterized by the ox, one of the many beasts of the field. The ox may represent flesh, hence common, mortal “man” would have the flesh of a beast, and that we do.

The letter nun would imply seed-bearing and that we are. The letter vav, by its shape, could imply upright man as it often does.

Finally, the letter shin with a dot to the right branch makes it pronounceable as the “sh” sound. One of the meanings of the letter shin is fire, and its use “fusion”. Hence, enos sort of spells out that a fusion of two kinds by the fiery darts of the Wicked One. The one lucky sperm that penetrates the egg of a woman issues a zinc flash for just an moment as it breaks through. Perhaps that “flash” is one dart from many fiery darts.

Hence, adam was planned and came about but Cain was generated by chance, or probability with it not planned by God.

What is mortal man? Sperm-bearing upright creatures with flesh of the beasts.

What is man? Somewhat upright, godly man and half beast/man lower in state — the “creeping thing” (remes) of Genesis 1:26.

Perhaps now you might want to examine all the evidence for the conclusion in my latest book, The Creeping Things of the Bible, which explains what is man that God should care for us. Perhaps we are not totally depraved as Calvinism proposes but with just enough “el” in us to make us worth improving and glorifying again. For us to be improved, “for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23), a fragment of God (el) must penetrate our minds for elohim to fill or souls.

“What is man that You should magnify him?” (Job 7:17). Not make him larger, but to make common man glorious as God intended; to change man from a lower state (enos) to a higher state (adam).

Jesus was the “quickening Spirit” that made proto man alive and remains the Way from a lower (enos) to a higher state (adam) of Existence (Elohim) — in Christ, the Messianic God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOW DISTANT IS HELL AND PARADISE?

 

 

THE JOURNEY TO ETERNAL LIFE, OR  NOT

 

As Jesus journeyed, He spoke of esoteric things. After speaking of mending garments, Jesus spoke of wine-making, apparently to get across the idea of something with deeper meaning when by “coincidence” (sic), He was told that the daughter of Jairius was dead. However, Jesus went about His business for quite some time before He acted.

Later, after doing several other miracles, Jesus calmly came to the girl that had suffered death, and challenged those around her:

 

Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole, and when he came into the house, He suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden, and all wept, and bewailed her: but He said, “Weep not; she is not dead, but sleeps.”

And they laughed Him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

And He put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, “Maid, arise”, and her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and He commanded to give her meat. (Luke 8:50-55)

 

Fore your interests, there were three accounts of that miracle: Mat 9 (shortened version), Luke 8 (above) and Mark 5 (below). There were three writers that witnessed her life restored to her.

 

And (Jesus) came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly, and when He was come in, He said unto them, “Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleeps.”

And they laughed Him to scorn, but when He had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entered in where the damsel was lying; and He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, “Talitha cumi”; which is, being interpreted, “Damsel, I say unto you, arise.”

And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. (Mark 5:38-42)

 

She had been dead quite some time. In as little as two hours rigor mortis begins. If he had tarried that long, and perhaps Jesus had, the girl would have been quite dead as all life would have been gone.

What is “life”? Metabolism. Metabolism is how the body of a person sustains itself and reproduces cells. The girl was no longer alive and no longer metabolic. Only one thing could save her and that was the life sustaining force from some other life-giver. As such, Jesus gave some of His life to the girl for her to again sustain herself.

Within the same journey was the situation of the woman with the issue of the blood, wherein the life force emanating from Jesus was “virtue” (dynamos in the Greek).

Now recall the story of Adam; “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).

Adam had been a lifeless image of clay. He was firstly formed dead, then God breathed life unto him. (Where did you think the story of Pinocchio originated?)

Adam had been rigid, literally a “firm thing” that God made metabolic. The man, Adam, had the Essence of God breathed unto Him, and Adam became a living soul. Adam was a newly formed vessel that God had made. He was the “bottle” of the story of the new wine.

In the same three accounts, Jesus spoke of wine-making, saying in one version:

 

No man puts new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. (Mark 2:22)

 

No man does such a thing, but God did! Jesus took the “old bottle” Jairus’ daughter and put new wine into her used vessel. Jesus would have been making the point that He was not just any man but God Himself, who put new wine into a “new bottle” (Adam). Jesus overcame the world, doing things that any other person could not do!

However, rather than focus on the impossible miracle, do so with the action surrounding that event.

They scoffed when Jesus said the girl was not dead but “asleep”. Obviously, they had closely examined her for vitality. She would have been dead, dead with the advent of rigor mortis. No wonder they laughed because she was indeed like a tree.

“Tree” in the Hebrew is ‘es (עֵץ): ayin – samekh. Ayin, characterized by the eye, means observation, or consciousness. The letter samekh, characterized by a support of some sort, represents stability. In other words, ‘es are indeed trees but other “firm” things as well. Adam was a “tree” of the Garden that God planted therein: “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed” (Gen 2:8). Hence, the Garden of the Lord was not just the taxonomy “tree”, but all firm things as opposed to phantom-like unseen things.

Adam was formed as a firm thing, and Jesus saw the young girl just as another firm thing in His Garden to make alive. To Him, the girl was just another vessel like a clay pot or a bottle that He could fill with some of Himself. Jesus took the twelve-year old “bottle” and breathed life unto her. That “life” was symbolized by the new wine.

What does new wine in it that old wine does not? Fermentation. Remember the girl was no longer metabolic? Well, fermentation is anaerobic metabolism.

Anaerobic is the absence of oxygen. Rather than breathing oxygen in her to awaken her stiff, lifeless body, the “new wine” with which Jesus replaced the lack of oxygen was His own “Breath” (nesama; נְשָׁמָה), or literally a blast of life.  

It was not air with which Jesus shocked her heart, but His Power. Like Adam, long before, Jesus shared a part of His Dynamics to her; He have her a portion of the Elohim (virtue) within Himself. Of course, the Power of Elohim is like a spirit, or wind, that would have overshadowed the girl to make her whole again.

She was not dead, dead… even as stiff as a board. She had only come apart. Jesus said, “’Maid, arise’, and her spirit came again, and she arose straightway.”

“Arise” in the Greek is egeiro, meaning “to collect ones’ faculties” (Strong 2006). She had given up her inner being as her soul had gone from her body. Jesus was commanding her soul to return to her. That would have been the “new wine” into the “old bottle” of which He spoke.

New wine has life in it, and Jesus returned her soul still a brewing back into her “bottle.” She was only twelve, and that was the age of accountability in Jewish tradition. Her collecting her faculties would have been her bat mitsva — the age of twelve for a girl’s spiritual maturity. In Jewish tradition, Jesus, as the Rabii, was merely performing a bat mitzvah, bringing her new wine into the old bottle for completion to become good wine, so to speak.

The young girl’s soul had gone somewhere outside her body, had it not? Souls go to heaven. Her soul, not yet fully grown (as with Adam), had gone to Paradise in heaven, but not fully matured, it was not God’s time.

When the young girl gathered her faculties, it was Jesus who did the gathering. Jesus stood above her with the Power of God, merely overshadowed her, and she was made whole as her invisible soul returned to be finished by the cross. The young girl had been born twelve years before, and then when Jesus came to her, she was “born again” from God above her as the Greek words indicate (John 3:7).

The soul of the girl had gone to heaven in a moment and in a moment had returned. God had “blasted” her into heaven and then back in just a moment (atom in the Greek).

Just as Adam had literally been thrust out of heaven (Gen 3:24), so the girl would have been. Heaven is not a distant place, albeit it is not even in this realm.

Death is the door to heaven whenever and wherever it is anyone dies. Her body was indeed just asleep (katheudo) — at rest, awaiting the return of her other faculty. She had not die but was resurrected in an old, used vessel to await the general resurrection when she would have a new incorruptible vessel (1 Cor 15:52).

Heaven seems far, far away but it is as near as death. Unfortunately, heaven has two abodes: Hell and Paradise.

How far away is Hell? As near as death. Whenever the body is dead, dead, the soul will be thrust as if from a rocket’s engine, suddenly to be in either Hell or Paradise in an instant. There is no Purgatory to await the trip and no reprieve during the journey. Once you are dead the trip is over and there is no turning back except for possibly some of the souls that have not yet fully matured, as the story of the girl reveals.

 

 

 

 

 

ON THE CONCEPT OF TIME - Part 2 of 2

 

SENTIENCE:

 

The last commentary about time ended with the concept of Almighty God, El Saday. The English word “God” is translated from two Hebrew words: El and Elohim. Think of El as God at rest (stationary) and Elohim as God in motion; creating, or the dynamic God as the ending letter mem indicates.  

In the beginning, there was God, Elohim, creating and when the creation was accomplished and the Mighty One rested: Elohim when at rest was El. It seems that El represents the potentiality of the Mighty One and Elohim the acts of the Almighty God — the dynamics.

“On the seventh day God rested” (Gen 2:2) when everything was finished (Gen 2:1). The quoted phrase in that sentence is literally yom sebi’i yom.  Sebi’i is “seventh” in the English.

Sebi’i comes the root word, sheva meaning “complete.” Everything was completed, not on the seventh “day”, but after the seven ordinal steps, from yom to yom in the Hebrew.

The Hebrew letter yom is not necessarily either “day” or “time” but steps until completion. In the beginning, there was nothing, but in the end, there were all things. In the beginning, even before time, all things came into existence (Gen 1:1), and time (as yom or anything else) was not in that verse.

There was one divine Thing before creation — El — and during the Creation El revealed Himself as Elohim because He was no longer at rest as the letter mem implies dynamics of some sort: water, blood, genetics, particle dynamics, sound, and any other type of activity.

Hopefully you can see that El is the potential Power of God and Elohim that same Power released. They are two states of God, one at rest (static), and one dynamic.

The Hebrew word yom is generally accepted as one twenty-four day, however it is used before the Sun was ever mentioned in the Bible. The first use of the word is in the following: “God called the light ‘Day,’ and the darkness He called ‘Night’ and the evening and the morning were the first day” (Gen 1:5).

Hence light equals day. and the Hebrew word or equals yom. Since or is illumination, therefore yom is the activity of illuminating, as the ending letter mem implies.

The word “light” is spelled in the Hebrew el – waw- resh wherein the letter waw (or vav) connects the Power of God (El) to the first cause as the letter resh represents.

What is the source of El, or potential Power? The Hebrew letter yod — the first letter of yom. Yod whose sound is ya… say it, represents silent speech that John called the “Word”. It is not audible but a silent wave (i.e, Yahweh is not a sound at all, but an invisible inaudible wave since none of the letters are audible.).

The second letter of yom is waw as well to connect the work of God (Yod) to the distribution (mem) of the work.

In Newtonian physics, work is associated with time but in quantum mechanics, it is not. Called “Almighty God” is as if saying “Quantum Power”.

El Saday would be the Almighty, or the quantum, Power of God, and Elohim the distribution of that Power, as a wave of some sort.

If so, there would have been a ‘Big Bang” and a flow of the Power (Elohim) of God (Yod), but it would not be related to time; it would have been a quantum, or timeless, bang.

Quantum speed is some amount greater than the speed of light, but whatever it is, it is atomic, or as Paul wrote about a “moment” as “atom” — beyond the distribution of time, or not according to time.

Moment as an “atom” in the Greek means that there is no division of time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, centuries, millennia, or even eons. A moment would be an “aeon”.

The “a” in the Greek word “aeon” means without aging. Hence a “moment” is without any time expended. The transfiguration from earth to heaven, for instance, would be without any increment of time whatever, and it is supposed that from heaven to earth (Gen 3:24) would be the same lack of time.

God’s “moment” would be faster than a light and it is! Light has metrics whereas moments do not. Moment (atom) implies quantum physics, and the mechanics of quantum action is not associated with time. Hence, quantum computers are faster than the speed of light, even instantaneous.

Light is expressed as yom translated as “day”. However, that is not to say that the speed of light is a day at all. Light exists unseen in a dark vacuum — a flash of light that takes no time to either reveal or extinguish itself. “God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

Light, according to science, is always present, even in darkness, and John knew that! Even in darkness God pre-existed all things.

How much time does it take for God to do things? “Atom” in the Greek — “indivisible cutting” (Douglas Harper 2001-2026).

In the beginning, everything was made without the expenditure of time, and now the scientist, Michio Kaku, wrote that “In the Creation, time did not exist,” and that “Time is a construct of man.”

That time is for man, was recorded by the wisest man who ever existed — King Solomon:

 

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up. (Ecc 3:1-3)

 

Therefore time (yom), is defined by activities of mankind, not the activity of God. Solomon was implying that Time is a construct of man.

Since God did all things in the Creation, therefore the Creation was all done in one moment — an aeon — as the first verse in the Bible indicates.

Time is therefore for the world: to define seasons, every purpose on Earth, birth, death, planting, harvesting, perishing, healing, to tear down, and to build up. Time is a metric for doing things on Earth. Nothing therein pertains to heaven. There is no expenditure of time either in heaven to come nor in heaven before there was earth.

All the while science and theologians are arguing about the time of creation is wasting our precious time. God just spoke; and it was! His saying was the sound “ya” and all things came about, both the visible and the invisible, even faster than anything that can be observed as “the twinkling of the eye” suggests.

Time like mass, weight, work, and such is just a metric for measuring things that are observed whether invisible power or visible work. Time is nothing more than a way to define activity, or life on earth in general.

My theory is that time began with the advent of sin when Adamic man and woman began to age. Their residence in the Garden of the Lord (East) was before time just as the ancients believed.

“East” in Genesis 3:24 is qedem (קֶדֶם). The letter qof points to before time. The second letter dalet means into space, time and matter; and the mem into the motion of life in that realm.

Qedem (East) implies that Adam (both of them) would have been thrust out into the world wherein time is measured by the Sun. How long would that have taken? A moment — an aeon — without time.

That time began with the advent of sin makes sense. As soon as they were cast out, it is written, “In process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord” (Gen 4:3). Work became associated with time for the first time and that was after sin got into the blood of Adam’s kind who were born on planet Earth. Hence, time was for man to do things; it is the measure of life here on planet Earth.

Eternity is in heaven — either in Hell or in Paradise.

Eternity is netzah (נֵצַח) in the Hebrew, wherein the letter nun is uncertainty, ayin observation, and chet the separation of realms (CoPilot). Uncertainty applies to mankind as the letter nun represents. God is certain whereas we cannot be (Sorry, fundamentalist preachers). We cannot judge ourselves because only God foreknows our life in timelessness.

Now look at both Paradise and Hell, both in the realm of heaven (Luke 16).

“Torments” is repetition; that is Hell. It would be like the movie “Groundhogs Day” wherein the same awful things occur each time, implying that time does not exist in Hell.

On the other hand, apply the same reasoning to pleasure (Eden or Paradise in heaven). Suppose that a Christian experiences pleasure in Paradise continually. Just as pain in the dentist’s chair seems to never end, endless pleasure may be the same. Time is only a measure of toil (work) on Earth; and without work in Paradise, no time would pass.

Hence, time is not real but a fragment of the mind. Go into a coma and for you, time stops. Get into your mind, and all your conscious time flashes in a moment. Hence, time is in the mind of sinful men but never was on Adam’s mind because original man was without sin.

When God dished out His penalty, he told Adam, “In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread till you return unto the ground for out of it was you taken for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return” (Gen 3:19). Sweat implies work and work in the visible realm involves time as Newton’s laws reveal. In heaven, God did all the work in no time, but on Earth, Adam would do all the work to expend time.

The penalty for Adam and his kind was work and in Newtonian Physics work is measured by forces over some amount of time.

However, in “Pleasure before time”, as “East of Eden” means, pleasure was ordinary and endless; and there was no need for time.

Time came about for Adam and his kind to measure things that were not pleasurable. As most people know, even coitus is beyond time as pleasure seems to be only for a moment, unlike pain which is endless.

Time is therefore a mental faculty (“sentience” — consciousness) to measure the things of the world.

I know that I went deeply into the concept of time, but time is of the essence for “now is the time of salvation” at any moment in your life it can begin (Rom 13:11).