TWISTED

 Twisted is thought of as “deviant,” but twisting requires the input of energy to go from one state to another. For a pretzel, twisting transforms a straight portion of dough into a crooked shape, thus changing how it looks and what it is.

From a spiritual perspective, twisting transforms one substance into another, from wrong to right. For instance, material substance alone was not the finished product, and God transformed one “shape” unto another:

²⁷ So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ²⁸ And God blessed them… Gen 1:27-28)

 How did God ‘bless” them? He “adored” them ( (BLB 2021). Originally, they were not adorned, but after God made them, he did adorn them with something! The question is What was the thing with which they were adorned? Seed (Gen 1:28b) — to cause to be fruitful (ibid).

Adam was formed in an image then endowed with human seed to multiply to increase God’s kind. Implied therein is that Adam was made of the same stock as God, had the attributes of God, and was endowed with the seeds of God.

A seed “is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. A seed is a part of the process of reproduction” (Wikipedia 2001-2022). Seed is thought of as embryonic herbs, but it applies to the animal kingdom as well.

As scriptures implies, there are two gens of human seeds: male and female (verse 27 above). Inside the gametes (those seeds) are the human genome, consisting of the identities of the male and female respectively, that are encoded in their chromosomes in a compound of carbon called “DNA.”

Scientists, in the definition above, refer reproduction as a process. With that background, the generation of Adam was a process followed by a similar process for Eve, excepting that they were of different genders. They were two different but compatible gens who could reproduce.

In Rome, the gens were of the patrilineal germline, and in biology, “the gens are a distinguishable group of related organisms” (Merriam-Webster 2021). Therefore, Adam and Eve were the family group and were organically related as “one flesh” (Gen 2:24).

Since they were images of God; Adam, Eve, and God were one flesh. Thus, the organism was just as glorious as God. That implies that since God is glorious, then they were glorious as well, and they were not made “very good” (Gen 1:28b) but were literally made in splendor (Gen 1:31).

God created all things (Acts 17:24). Creators generate things from nothing. However, God is not a “Thing” but Existence itself! Crediting God as “Creator” is trusting that He genned all things in the beginning. That He did; He genned Adam with His own Identity and Adam passed along the Identity of God unto Eve.

God gave Adam a “twist” as he genned him, and Eve passed along the “twist” to Eve. Why “twists”? God provided light then divided the light from darkness (Gen 1:4). God twisted light from the darkness in the process of time and did so each time of each process. That repeated process was done six times until it all came to equilibrium when God finally rested when the systematic process was completed.

“God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night” (Gen 1:5). “Day” therein is “yom — to be hot” and “night” therein is “layil — “a twist” (BLB 2021), obviously away from the hot. Hence, the generation of mankind was a process in time and is validated by God Himself, “And 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).

What kind of fruit did Cain bring that was so disgusting to the LORD GOD? Cain perhaps planted his own seed in the ground! That may sound disgusting but that would be the “fruit” of the Tree of Knowledge. Eve did not necessarily eat of the tree but consumed its fruit. (Gen 3:6) Was that “fruit” the seed of the Wicked One? The apostle John thought so: We are to 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 3:12).

As it turned out, the fruit that Eve consumed was surely by carnal knowledge and Cain was the seed that the “Serpent” planted in Eve that would be sown into the ground outside the Garden; not that Cain was seeded in the ground but he grew in the Earth outside the protective shield of the Garden.

Something is often missed in scripture — for the Jews, it was blasphemous for any but the Jews to enter the inner parts of the Temple, and only a righteous priest could enter the Holy of Holies. Well, the Garden of Eden was God’s original “Temple” and the Tree of Life was the “Holy of Holies” and the canopy of trees were the “tabernacles” that God provided. As both trees were in the “midst of the Garden” (Gen 2:9), both trees were God’s, and both were holy!

The ”Serpent” defiled the “Temple” as it would be defiled so many times thereafter. Lucifer cast his serpentine seed on the ground, so to speak, and Cain was the product of miscegenation.

Cain brought his “fruit” to God. Apparently, because it was disrespectful, Cain must have sown his own seed to Lucifer, and onto the ground. On the other hand, Abel brought the firstfruits of his flock, indubitably lambs, and gave it directly to God (Gen 4:4).

It seems that Cain and Abel reproduced much differently and were not of the same gens (family). They were different than each other and each more like his parent — Cain of the Wicked One, and Abel of the Divine One, as scripture implies with the cognomen “Righteous Abel” (Mat 23:25).

The inheritance by primogeniture ended right there; no longer would the first-genned be the heir but the second, and in his absence, a subsequently genned male, as with Seth who replaced Abel (Gen 4:5). Seth was Abel’s replacement, and he was of the gens of Abel. Perhaps Seth, like Abel, was the son of God of which was written in the days of Noah (Gen 6:2): “’God,’ said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel” (Gen 4:25). In the Hebrew, the word is sit where it is translated “appointed” means “be set upon” (ibid). It appears that both Abel and Seth were generated in the same manner as Jesus would be when the LORD GOD came upon Mary in Spirit.

God generated both Abel and Seth in His Image and from the side of Eve just as he had Eve from the side of Adam. That process seems to be how reproduction was meant to be. If man was right, then God would generate, and display His own genetic identity in His sons and daughters.

Cain may have copulated to bear his fruit, and that is why it was so disgusting to God! Worse yet, is if he planted it in the ground without even knowing a woman.

Now back to the process of generation: The “twisting” that God did in the process of time was conversion of darkness to light. He twisted the “light of life” (‘or) from darkness (death; hosek). God twisted mankind from obscurity (‘or) to a “living soul” (Gen 2:7).

Ironically, the generation of mankind comes from the same process as regeneration of mankind: Jesus said, “Verily I say unto you, ‘Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven’” (Mat 18:3).

Conversion is a process in time, and not instantaneous. Conversion in that passage comes from the Greek word, strepho— “to twist” (ibid). Sinners must be twisted from darkness unto Light. Speaking of Himself, Jesus said, “…the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give Light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death” (Luke 1:78-79).

Conversion is much like the creation (the “generation”) in that it too is a process of twisting from darkness to Light. In the end of the overall process, Adam was generated along with the world. Likewise, conversion is the long process from the planting of the “seed” in sinners, enduring the world to the end (Mat 10:22), and the “harvest” of living souls at the rapture as Jesus comes to thresh out the fruit from the “good grain” from the “chaff.”

That Matthew 18:3 is so much like Genesis 1:4 is not coincidental! Why would regeneration be any different than generation? Why would “born again (John 3:7) — “engendering from above” (ibid) — be any different that God engendering Adam from above?

With that explained, “born again” is not technically accurate and neither is “saved.” Since the former means engendered from God, and the latter after enduring the world, “conversion” is so much a better a word to initiate the process of becoming a living soul!

Only Calvinists would be “saved” because of the “preservation of the saints” doctrine. Indeed, God does preserve the saints but as any co-packer knows, the seal can be broken easily from the inside if it is preserved without eliminating all the impurities within. As all have sinned, all our preserved with some degree of iniquity, and a life of sin can disturb the seal and abort the spiritual “child.”

When Jesus comes, what is it He does? He gens again by taking the dust from the ground, forming it in His Image, then again breathes life unto that waiting soul, just as in the beginning.

The problem with bad doctrine is that they “recreate” the creation, just as the “Serpent” replicated it in the beginning. Just as Lucifer endowed mankind with new genes, so do Calvinist theologians. We are to let the processes in time endure the time; and there are no shortcuts to salvation for all must endure the world to the end!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GENES AND THE COLOR PURPLE

 This commentary is a blurb from my new book in process about the genes of God's different creatures, and what they have to do with the color purple:

Purple is not so important from a biological aspect but is in symbolism. It represents the mysterious and supernatural and is also usually associated with royalty and religion. The color purple is associated with transformation in psychology; hence, purple is mysterious and esoteric in nature. That aligns well with the aspirations of Lucifer, who said:

¹³ “…I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isa 14:13:14)

 Lucifer aspired to be supreme to God and reign from another realm. His “color” was purple, and his aspirations were esoteric, or beyond nature. The “north” (sapon) in that verse is not directional but “hidden” in the “dark.” (ibid).

As such, Lucifer is hidden inside his people. Since Lucifer and phosphorus have the same meaning, perhaps Lucifer was speaking of the phosphorus compounded in phosphates that make up the boney components of the human body.

Adam referred to Eve as, “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gen 2:23). Lucifer was not! Was Adam referring to the phosphorus that God had endowed him with in his bones?

The proper amount of phosphorus is necessary to regulate the vital organs. God would optimize them to exist forever. Perhaps Lucifer’s genes from his realm had more or less of the optimal phosphate to make the organs die rather than live forever!

Bones do live much longer than tissue, and that is due to the phosphorus in them. That name is from the Greek phos (light) and phorus (bringing) and is essentially the name of Satan as much as Lucifer.

What happened to the Serpent for punishment? “On his belly he would go!” That may indicate either a loss of limbs or a soft, rather than boney structure. Either way, that “Image” could not stand erect before God, and perhaps God removed the phosphorus from his bones. That it was a “Serpent” is assumed but it was certainly an image that God cut down as He did Dagon years later (1 Sam 5:3).

If the Serpent was of a different composition, then his DNA and genetic identity would differ from man’s. He was indeed of another kind and that was a species from the dark realm in the heavens.

When anyone thinks of heaven, think not of a place but an invisible realm that is divided into compartments. Lucifer is a heavenly creature but not of Paradise in the heavens, but from Hell therein. Paradise and Hell are separated by a great gulf (Luke 16:26) that cannot be crossed by human beings but certainly can by angels and demons because they are different kinds of creatures.

It is a great “interval” (ibid), not of distance or time, but merely a fixed boundary that humans can never cross, even in death. Think of Paradise as existence and Hell as horrible non-existence in isolation from God and love, along with torments as well.

The point to that explanation is that things of heaven are different than things on Earth. “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth” (Gen 1:1), but made them much different spatially, massively, and in volume. Furthermore, the “waters from the waters” that He separated were genetic — literally the semen from the semen (ibid).

God put two very different kinds of semen in the heaven and the Earth. Semen has two components: sperm in seminal fluid. God made two very different genetic beings; the first in the second process and the second, in the sixth process.

Angels and men, based on the Hebrew language, would have much different chromosomes carrying their DNA. They are of a different kind and a different species, and they have two gens: good and evil — the righteous and the unrighteous… those made right and those not!

From old creature to new is “regeneration” that was finished when Adam was resurrected alongside Jesus. Perhaps his DNA changed since Jesus finished him! Perhaps Jesus passed His “cup” of DNA along to Adam and many of the other saints who had died and were sprinkled with the blood of Jesus!

I surmised that Calvary (the cranium) means Adam’s cranium and wrote the book, The Skull of Adam. I learned much later that Golgotha is “the place of the skull” but more precisely, the place of Adam’s cranium.

Sacred literature states that the bones of Adam were buried under the calvariae locus, “the place of the cranium.” If that is true, then the blood of Jesus with its white blood cells, containing chromosomes and His genes, changed Adam from a dead man to one made alive! If it can do that for Adam, it can for all who have sinned!

Over the centuries, not only was Canaan’s chromosomes the color purple, but because of miscegenation — inbreeding of different peoples — all mankind has clear chromosomes when colored with sin, turn purple; as all have sinned and come short of God’s chromosomes in whose image we were made.

If you think of that as racist, then blame God! He warned the Israelites to keep their blood pure and they were instructed not to inbreed with the Canaanites, specifically not Isaac, as God commanded Abraham:

³ I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: ⁴ But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. (Gen 24:3-4)

 “Why Isaac?” you ask. To keep Abraham’s bloodline pure through Isaac and Israel (Jacob). As was previously concluded in my thesis, Isaac was “adopted” by Abraham because he was sterile and Sarah barren. Isaac was an image of God Himself planted in the belly of Sarah, just as Jesus in Mary. No, Isaac was not Jesus but was made in the same manner as Adam. He was a new “Adam” and a regeneration of Adam’s kind.

God did that for a reason and that was to produce the purest Kind ever — He would “clone” Himself in Mary and save the DNA of all mankind. To do that, he commanded that the progeny of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob remain genetically pure. Like it or not, the entire Bible is about “clean genes” just as your mother told you!

Isaiah was speaking of chromosomes, perhaps, rather than colors or insects. He may have been speaking of the genes that Lucifer passed along to mankind, and the clean genes of Jesus that would correct the degeneration over all the millennia.

Not only is the Bible the “Last Will and Testament” of God wherein he leaves His “Estate” to His heirs, but it is also a book defining the heirs! The heirs of God have the genes of God, and are in Christ, as Jesus is the only native Son of God.

Think of a true vaccine: Either a dead or living sample of a virus is introduced into the flesh of an otherwise healthy person to activate the natural immune system to ward off viral infection that may later be encountered.

The Blood of Jesus contains an antiviral agent of some sort. The Holy Ghost of Jesus imbues the antidote for the genetic iniquity (depravity) in all who are natural born, and with that divine “vaccination,” the virus of sin is attacked by the divine “antibodies” from the blood of Jesus and the sinner is made whole.

Born again, in that comparison, is the “vaccine.” It takes the perfect genetics of God, and the sick person is engendered from above with healthy genes, not ones that can be seen microscopically, but invisible genes from the realm above.

Just as it is fair and reasonable that anyone should be persuaded, and never cursed, to take a vaccine, the same goes for the divine intervention.

Paul was reasoning with King Agrippa II about the efficacy of the divine “vaccination,” and “then Agrippa said unto Paul, ‘Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian’” (Acts 26:28).

Persuading is cognitive. Evidence must first be presented, and Paul did that. Then Agrippa considered the evidence, evaluated it and either had a choice to accept or reject. He used his free will, without any coercion at all, and rejected Paul’s case.

Almost persuaded is not enough; Agrippa had to be fully persuaded, or as Paul said to the Romans, “Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind” (Rom 14:5).

Calvary is so important because it is the place of the cranium — the “shield” that protects the mind. Agrippa required persuasion of that what Jesus did on the Cross of Calvary was efficacious for eternal life. What had Jesus done there? He had shed the genes in His Blood to cover the genetic sin of all mankind; He corrected the iniquity in the flesh by replacing carnal genes with heavenly genes!

The result was that for that moment, Agrippa rejected the argument. Agrippa was a spoiled and proud man, being the great-grandson of Herod the Great, Herod was not king, but he would be king thereafter. He aspired, not to be a Christian, but to be king, and if he was a Christian, Claudius likely would not have made him king.

The key phrase in Acts 26:28 is “to be” (a Christian). In the Greek, to be is “ginomai” — “to cause to be (“gen” -erate) (ibid).” It is becoming the family of God and having the gens of Jesus, the Christ. Gens are a group of people who are related through their male ancestor,” according to Roman nomen-clature  (Oxford University Press 2022).

 

Color of chromosomes in the liver when exposed to a typical dye (credit: Quiora)