Again, I have taken the opportunity to write what might be, but it is not to be taken as factual. It is to motivate you to think about just who you are — whether you esteem yourself beyond reason and so forth. It is humbling to realize that we might not be children of God but a hybrid of Adam and some other being whose thoughts could chill the hottest fire.
We are not the humane people that
we think we are. Just look at the brutish battle ongoing in the Holy Land. How
could children of God, whether Allah or Yahweh, perish one
another so inhumanely?
Just as in all times, the victor
in war reveals who has the stronger God. The hope of Christians should be that
our God — the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — is the real God that is
Almightier than Allah or any other ‘god.’
Now for time.
Time measures decay and death. Without
life, time would not be measured and of no significance. Without animation —
life — time would be stagnant. There would still be fire, wind, the seasons,
and such; but none of it would be recorded except by the movement of the stars
and the erosion of the Earth.
Even stars burn out as they decay
in their own radioactive manner. Life exists because many ancient stars died to
make carbon, not from nothing, as evolution proposes, but as the basic
ingredient for making life. Indeed, fossil fuels are not from fossils but from
dead stars!
The progeny of Abraham and the other patriarchs are likened to the stars in heaven. No wonder, carbon is essentially stardust and organisms are carbon-based. As such the stars were the ingredients for all the kinds whether vegetation or animals. The stars were before the foundation of the world or even our Sun of Moon. The apostle Paul addressed the significance of mankind:
Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He has chosen us 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, to the
praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the
beloved. (Ephes 1:3-6)
Those spiritual blessings were in
heavenly places. That seems to be Paradise in heaven before time began. Of all
the kinds, God chose us before the foundation of the world.
Everything that God has done for
mankind, as scripture reveals, is measured by time except for the Creation. That
points toward time ask the dynamic for mankind and pinpoints God as the ‘Dynamis’
that makes all things happen. That dynamis, in the Hebrew, is translated
as ‘Virtue’ or “Goodness.’
Life is dynamic because human
beings were made in the Dynamic Image of God. Without life, the world would be kinetic
— have motion — but motion without a purpose. Life made the world dynamic and
with purpose.
God’s purpose for the world was
us… all of Adam’s kind. In a modern translation, God said, “For I know the
plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give
you hope and a future” (Jer 29:11; NIV).
Before the foundation of the
world, long before time began, God planned mankind. Even after sin, God never
dropped His plans for us; He still has a Plan! That Plan includes everyone,
like it or not. As you read this, His Plan for you is developing, but God, because
of His foreknowledge, although He did not dictate your own plan, knows the
outcome.
Just as when you learned to ride
a bicycle, your father knew beforehand whether you would ride or fall because
he knew you; your Father in Heaven provides the motion, knowing in advance your
character and whether you will ride with Him or fall.
Just as your own dad loves you
either way, Father God does as well, “For God so loved the world that he gave
his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life” (John 3:16). God does not love the world in the sense of material
things but the people of the world — His creatures that He planned before time.
His love does not extend only to those who love Him but to everyone just because
he blessed them before time.
Jesus pre-existed the world and
time as well. (John 17:24). He planned us; not the Jesus of the first century
A.D., but the “Jesus’ — the Word (John 1:14) that poured the foundation for the
world just for us long before time ever began.
There were two components of Creation
— the heavens first before the foundation of the world, then the world, from chapters
one and two of Genesis, respectively. Heaven, or the unseen, was the
beginning, or the first rank in making things. It was the basis for all
material things which were of a second rank. Hence, chapter one may have been
rank one and chapter two, rank two.
God did not judge mankind as more
deserving than the other kinds. He Created us more fitting for eternal
life.
God had 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). “Us” is
not in the Hebrew. God made all things, so if Jesus was only a helpmate for
God, then there would be two gods. Neither did the angels help God; in fact, some
of them hindered God. That was the proof that John provided that the Word, ‘Jesus’
is the One God (John 1).
If man was made from clay, he was
molded as man. “Dominion” comes from the root word meaning to tread down.
God did not make many men and judge which was of the higher quality to be His
Images, but made the prototype man, by treading down and compressing the clay
into the mold. As such, Adam was the Image that God worked on to be glorious, not
the other kinds. As such, neither angels nor animals were chosen or elected in
some sort of lottery, but all Adam’s kind was intended to be made suitable
enough to love, and as it turned out, even with flaws that were acquired by
sin.
We often forget the ‘likeness’
when we focus on the ‘Image.’ Likeness is similitude, like God in outward
appearance. Thus, the Image was like God in Spirit and Likness was with
glorious flesh, like God’s.
Jesus put on the flesh of man, as
the Son of Man (Gens of Adam), but before Jesus, the Word had divine ‘flesh’
as well. The Son of God (the flesh of God) appeared to Nebuchadnezzar in the
fiery furnace and to Jacob as he wrestled with God. His flesh was somewhat
different with the ability to be in the world and in heaven at the same time.
Perhaps, the original flesh of
Adam who was able to see unto the heavens according to the Books of
Adam and Eve, God told Adam after his nature changed, “"When you were
under subjection to Me, you had a bright nature within you, and for that reason,
could you see things afar off” (1 Adam and Eve VIII:2). That seems to be the supra-natural
ability of Jesus before He came in our type of flesh.
“Afar off,” was movement between the
world and heaven without any impedance. That is because in Paradise there would
be nothing to impede… no great gulf nor abys between the two worlds.
Enoch, in his tour of the cosmos,
implied that there was no barrier between the third heaven of Paradise in
Heaven and Paradise on Earth (Enoch VIII). Adam and Eve, in their glorious
state, could have traversed heaven and earth as they pleased. Perhaps they
preferred Heaven but were cast out into ‘earth,’ or into the physical world.
If time began with sin, then before
sin was before time. Perhaps when we (humans) were “blessed” before the
foundation of the world, that blessing was the carbon sprinkled from the dying
stars that became the foundation of us all… the carbon in organisms that are distinctively
different between man and woman and the other kinds.
Apes were never part of the
Glorious Plan of God, but the plan of Lucifer to diminish mankind to nothing
more than a stooped animal. Gorillas are not human beings nor human beings,
gorillas, and it has always been that way. There are no missing links; God made
them each their kind!
As for Neanderthal ‘man’ he would
not be a man because God did not mold it in the same fashion. That creature was
somewhat less than man just as man is a little less than angels. As such, when that
is written (Psalm 8:5), it pointed out the differences between the first two
kinds, and projected forward’ each of the kinds not in the Image and Likeness
of God were even more remote. In other words, God was not an ape.
Each species originated before
the foundation of the world. God used carbon for them all, formed them into distinctly
different chains, bound them together into cords, and put the cords in each nuclear
cell of the body. Each of the species have their own distinct chain and each
chain identifies each cell with all the characteristics of God, at least when
mankind was glorious.
Note that apes and other animals
are not so glorious. It is upright man that God marked as glorious.
Cain was the first mutation, or
hybrid, and God marked him another way. Cain, as it turned out, looked like a
man but behaved as a beast because the genome of Lucifer got into him via
his mother, Eve.
Adam and his mate were made from
blessings before time began, it seems, but Cain in the process of time (Gen
4:3), implying that time took its toll. Whether Eve was aged or not and had a
deformed child, or whether the Wicked One actually fathered him is debatable,
but Cain was marked with life so that he would not die (Gen 4:15). It could be
the mark of God, but consider if it was the mark of the Beast.
That mark is unknown for sure,
but because Cain was of the Wicked One, the mark would most certainly be in his
DNA. Cain was somewhat different than Adam or his brother, Abel. He was neither
the Image or Likness of God, Adam, nor Abel!
If the mark of Cain was the mark
of the beast, that mark would be ‘666’ (Rev 13:18). The carbon in all organisms has six electrons,
six protons, and six neutrons. The mark might be in the DNA of Cain and his
kind. Only the blood of Jesus with its DNA can overwrite the mark of the beast
for the past sins of mankind — original sin (Rom 3:25).[1]
Cain was after time began and the
‘daughters of men’ that engaged the ‘sons of God’ made the ‘giantism’ of Cain
part of the identity of the ‘sons of God’ who were Seth’s progeny. Not that
giants means huge, but genetically different in some manner, and as
found out centuries later the residual genes of giants still remained in some
so-called ‘humans’ the Anakim (Deut 1:28).
“God planted a garden eastward in
Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed” (Gen 2:8). Hence man, Adam,
was a plant in the Garden of God, and He planted Adam “eastward in Eden.
That seems to be directional, and it is, but again, it is not!
“Eastward” in the Hebrew refers
to before time because the Sun rises in the east. God planted the Garden,
not to the east of Eden, but before time. He took the soul that He had
made of Adam (chapter one), added material, and then planted Adam as he did the
trees of the Garden.
The trees, as well as the animals,
would have been glorious as well — “very good” or perhaps the ‘trees’ were metaphors
for other living souls. (As it turns out throughout scripture trees are metaphors
for people, and the most notable is that Jesus is symbolized as the ‘Tree of
Life.’)
The world is not just planet
Earth but all material things. God must have planted the Image that He had
molded of Adam in Heaven, alongside other living souls in that realm.
There may have been more little
Adam’s planted before time began with only Abel, Cain, and Seth acknowledge as
coming after time began. The Book of Jubilees, as well as the Books
of Adam and Eve acknowledge twin girls of Cain and Abel but were there
more? Yes, there were, after the others… in the process of time, “And the days
of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons
and daughters” (Gen 5:4).
Therefore, there were other sons
and daughters of Adam, and maybe they were the originators of the various races.
Do not the races have different DNA and even look different than each other? It
is unknown what race Adam was, but it was certainly the human race, not
angels and not beasts. Whatever was the glorious race, none of us are of the
Race of God! We all come short of His Glory — His Image, or His Genome.
Albeit there were sons and daughters
after sin and in the process of time, did Adam and Eve multiply in the manner
of God before time?
God made Adam by replicating
Himself, and woman was made of Adam with his ingredients, ostensibly the DNA of
Adam. It was not by planting a seed but grafting a ‘shoot’ from Adam that God
also planted in the ground.
There was creation in the Garden
after Adam was formed, and each ‘plant’ was before the foundation of the world,
and before time began.
It might be there were many more
glorious creatures that Adam and Eve multiplied from the souls that God
supplied. In other words, there may have been, or maybe not, other ‘Adam’s’
before time began… his kind anyway. If so, was it just one man, Adam, that fell
or all his kind? That leads to another question: If so, did they all look
different than the prototypical Adam?
So, it appears that much happened
before time began. If, the time of man
began with the sin of man, then perhaps many things were happening in nature
before mankind sinned. That would mean that the world is not relatively new but
fallen man is. Cain wandered the Earth, as his name means, and he was much
different than glorious Adam.
Even his DNA might be different
as explained. Could it be so different that early man-apes are just mutant
human beings? If so, then man did not evolve from apes but apes from men. (I
submit that prehistoric features do reveal themselves in some people.)
Everyone has DNA and each race of
people has different identities that are encoded in their DNA.
They all had the same Adam, so why
are they so different? Because of sin, time has made them less glorious until
today, we all come short of the glory of God. Some seem to come shorter than
others, but that is for God to sort out! In the beginning, we all were His kind
— Adam’s kind before the foundation of the world.
If the ancient organisms are tested,
would they be from before time or after time began? There was much going on
before time, so carbon-dating could provide false proof, and inadvertently be
just another cunning way that the ‘Serpent’ has devised to delude us.
[1] I believe the unpardonable
sin is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, or that phantom Image of Jesus in
whose likeness the soul of Adam and us were made. Cain blasphemed the Invisible
God, and he was marked outwardly. In some manner, his flesh was different, so
different that only a blind man would kill him. In the end, according to sacred
literature, blind Lamech killed Cain. Cain’s flesh would have been different
than the other beings because he was not fully human but of another kind —
another existence with different flesh. Hence, gene editing may be the unpardonable
sin and ‘total depravity,’ as Calvinists call it.
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