Why are we how we are? That is a question for humankind. Note that the species of Adam, “adamah,” in the Hebrew, is a humane kind of animal!
The origin (etymology) of “human”
is of late derivation and means “"of or belonging to man" (12c.),
from Latin humanus "of man, human," also "humane,
philanthropic, kind, gentle, polite; learned, refined, civilized"
As it turns out, to be human,
means to have lovingkindness toward others and animals; the first of which is
the “Golden Rule” of the Bible (Mat 7:12) and the other, caring for animals —
having “dominion” over them (Gen 1:26).
Dominion is not being the
dominant species, but “rada” — but to “rule” or “reign” over them. How
so? As a king would rule over a subject — with loving kindness — how God rules
over His Creation as valuable property not to be used only for their work but
for friendship in that Adam was the lone one of his species. Before Eve was
created, the animals were Adam’s only friends.
Therefore, the nature of
mankind was to be docile and empathetic! He was to be for others what the other animals
would be to him. Wikipedia says
about human nature; it “is a concept that denotes the fundamental
dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and
acting—that humans are said to have naturally. The term is often used to denote
the essence of humankind, or what it 'means' to be human. This usage has proven
to be controversial in that there is dispute as to whether or not such an
essence actually exists”
In other words, the species of homo
sapiens (“wise men”) is not so wise! We (me included) are to be thinking,
feeling, and acting, not by command but instinctively. We are to have consideration,
emotions, and behaviors that are different than wild animals that are feral,
who once were tame but become feral like a wild beast.
Note that some doubt the human
nature is humane at all — it is an “essence” that may not exist… a permanence
that has devolved if it ever existed. Science, therefore, even question whether
human nature ever existed.
Scripture explains human nature
very well. After finishing His good work, “God saw every thing that He had
made, and, behold, it was very good” (Gen 1:31). Everything (koi) is the
whole of creation, but it was not just “very good” but “forcefully excellent,”
even abundantly kind — “Glorious!”
Mankind and the animals were made
naturally inclined to kindness.
With sin, mankind is no longer
kind; now in the image of the “Beast,” mankind is by nature feral, as
they once were instinctively kind but are now instinctively feral, and so are
the beasts who followed Adam and Eve from the Garden sanctuary. The other
animals became feral as well because they followed the examples of their masters.
Scripture validates that some animals
surely remained in Paradise and would have never died. Are there animals in
Paradise? Isaiah saw into Paradise, and therein, just as in the past, “The wolf
also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child
shall lead them” (Isa 11:6).
Do animals repent? They need not
because they were never homo sapiens but mere animals that followed their
masters. Some were not so dumb after all; for many seem to have stayed in
Paradise and remain there to this day. They never went feral, and because they
never sinned, they never became feral, unlike those that followed Adam from the
Garden.
As such, Adam was more like the beasts
than the docile animals. He once heeded the Word, but just like Lucifer, he was
cast out of the Garden Paradise. Man followed Lucifer from the sanctuary of God
and when man became like the “Beast,” Lucifer, most of the animals became
beasts like their masters.
Something got into the genes of
mankind but not the animals. Whereas the animals merely followed their dominant
master, man’s nature was changed with sin to the point that by now, “all have
sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).
Man was created in the Image of
God, and with sin, their nature was edited and it became the in the image of
Lucifer, called the “Serpent” and the “Beast.”
The Serpent was not a viper at
all but the cunning nature of Lucifer (Gen 3:1). Adam and Eve were much
the same on the outside, with a very different kind of flesh (corruptible from before,
the glorious), but inwardly they were more like their new “father” the Devil, “You
are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do” (John
8:44).
What are the lusts of the Devil,
Lucifer? “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of
the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” (1
John 2:16), as John explained it.
Focus on the lust of the flesh
for a moment; Peter wrote to “abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the
soul” (1 Pet 2:11).
Sacred literature, for instance
the Books of Adam and Eve, indicate that the flesh of the two went from
glorious with a “bright nature” to inglorious. Their flesh had been of a
different substance, perhaps with the very DNA of God! [1]
The chromosomes of the species
surely changed… the “kroma soma,” or color of their bodies, or flesh,
became different. Adam and Eve went from
glorious to non-glorious, and lost the Glory of God and became feral along with
the beasts.
God tamed them for their
excursion in the wild. He put coats of skins, some say, “lambs skin,” on them,
but more so, surely the “flesh” of the “Lamb of God,” Jesus. Not that they wore
coats, but that the Word — Jesus — regenned them from above, literally,
they were, “born again” as the English translation calls it (John 3:7).
But upon leaving the Garden,
perhaps in another realm, they were cast out, not only the Garden Paradise, but
perhaps their world. The Books of Adam and Eve were about the
experiences in the world with Satan whose nature they still followed despite
the Flesh of God on them!
The world is therefore the enemy
of the soul and makes the flesh weak to its environment, as Jesus indicated (Mark
14:38).
Because sin is genetic, all have
sinned, and they were brought into the world “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5).
Iniquity is the presence of sin in the flesh. Iniquity is the DNA in everyone,
even the unborn.
We are all born with a feral
nature because it is in the flesh. It is genetic that only the blood that Jesus
propitiated for “sins that are past” (genetic sins from Adam and Eve), as Paul
wrote (Rom 3:25).
The first of the new kind was
Cain, “who was of the Wicked One” (1 John 3:12) and was like his “father” the
Devil. Since Cain was marked with an obvious feature, perhaps his germline, “there
were giants in the earth in those days” (Gen 6:4); that the mark of Cain was
giantism, so that he would not be killed.
As it turns out, from the Book
of Enoch, there were Grigori giants in the Earth in those days, and they
were angelic beings with very different “flesh” and “natures,” being supra-natural.
Because blind Lamech could not
see that Cain was a giant, and was his own progenitor, Lamech killed Cain, according
to Enoch.
Cain, the murderer of Abel, had
passed down his murderous genome to his germline and his own “seed” killed him.
Lamech had the nature of Cain whose name even means “Wonderer.” Cain’s nature
was a free-range beast who would kill with impunity for his horrid flesh just
like the animals who they soon could kill for meat.
Man, in his glory, was not a meat
eater, but herbivorous, but God gave up on the “beasts,” knowing full-well that
they craved flesh by nature any way they could get it.
By now, the very nature of man
has the craving of flesh in it. For millennia, they satisfied God by sacrificing
the first and best of their animal flesh, representing their own carnal
natures, but that would not do as they continued to sin despite all the sacrifices:
8 Above when He said, “Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;” 9 Then said He, “Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” (Heb 10:8-10)
So, we are too prideful; we are
not human beings in any sense! We are feral beings, who like the
animals, turned from forcefully excellent — glorious — to non-glorious
creatures.
“Beast” (“hay” in the
Hebrew) is “living creature,” a lower form of animal. The “Wicked One” of which
Cain was the progeny (Gen 4:1) is the “Beast” of scripture, to wit: “And they
worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast: and they worshipped the Beast,
saying, ‘Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make war with him?’” (Rev
13:3-4)
The “Beast” is surely the Nature
of the “Dragon,” meaning “to look” in the Greek, and being a visible “fabulous
kind of Serpent”
Since sinful men and women still
retain the nature of the Wicked One that is inherited from Eve, as the “mother
of all living” (Gen 3:20), then the nature of everyone is like a devouring
lion. As sons are like the father, sinful mankind is like their father the “Devil”
who is the adversary of both God and mankind!
What does royalty do? They lead
their subjects and to please their master, they do as the master does. That
Lucifer is the “Prince of the Power of the Air… the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience” (Ephes 2:2) that makes him the “Beast” whose will
sinners do. Genetically, therefore, because of original sin, mankind is no
longer human beings but bastard children of the Beast himself. So much for
self-esteem, eh?
(To be continued)
[1]
In my book, On the Origin of Man and the Universe, I concluded that the “Glory
of God” in whose Image they had been made, was pure YY-chromosomal.
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