Friday, October 6, 2023

CHRISTIANITY FOR DUMMIES: Wrap-up

Now for confession… We are all ‘dummies.’ You are a dummy, they are all dummies and I am a dummy! Jesus is polite but honest.

Some skeptics were discussing the tomb of Jesus; my guess is to laugh and scoff at the idea of a dead man rising. Them not realizing that they were speaking to the arisen Savior, Jesus said as they were walking, “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” [i]

They were not fools but merely blind to the truth. There they were, walking with a once dead man, and failed to recognize that He was the same man that had died shortly before. That was the ‘science,’ the forensic evidence that Jesus was who He said He was. Many still do not believe that! Those who do not are fools. A modern Jesus would have said, “You dummies!”

A bunch of dummies gathered and murdered the wrong man. The guilty one was Adam, but Jesus was a convenient “Last Adam’ [ii] that God planned to be there all along!

The Word of God came to the First Adam and said, “"O Adam, as to the fruit of the Tree of Life, for which you ask, I will not give it to you now, but when the 5500 years are fulfilled. Then will I give you of the fruit of the Tree of Life, and you shall eat, and live forever, you, and Eve, and your righteous seed.” (1 Adam and Eve 28:2).

The ‘Tree of Life’ is a symbolic representation of Jesus.

God had explained that 5-1/2 days to Him was 5500 years. Adam thought the latter was a longtime for justification, but to God, it would be a short time at midday on the sixth ‘day.’ Paul was quite aware of the short interval between the two Adams — the first and the last — when he wrote to Peter, “Be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” [iii]

If calculations are true, then world-time is measured, not from Genesis 1:1, but from the time Adam sinned when Adam and Eve were removed from Paradise to the world and began to wither.

If time began with sin and decadence, then perhaps we are in the sixth day. (It has been calculated that this year is Anno Mundi 5784. Given human error, the “fruit of the Tree of Life’ is about ripe!)

Think not that Adam himself was for the promise, but his kind. Adam was justified himself when Jesus was resurrected, based on scripture. Jesus died and three days later, Adam and Eve were perhaps released from their Cave of Treasures, “The graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” [iv]

That was the plan all along. Calvary, or Golgotha, is the place of Adam’s cranium. There on that hill, Adam was justified, and the blood of Jesus made available on the ground (Hebrew; adam) for the justification of all the living adama.

When God named both the man and the ground on which he was formed, ‘Adam,’ that was no accident because they were of the same composition. In a sense, Adam came back to where he was generated to be regenerated! Jesus died, not just for the justification of Adam, but all his kind… all who came after: the Jews, the Gentiles, you, me, and all the others who would come to Him.

Never think that God is a Royal Dummy. Jesus was not a mere ‘carpenter, as translators wrote. In the Greek, Jesus was called a ‘Tekton’ — an artisan/craftsman. He crafted the cosmos and even organisms. He was the Creator, as John noted. [v]

Jesus, as God, is all-knowing. Yes, we are the dummies like the Jews who were such dummies throughout history. Except for the prophets and patriarchs, the Jews were about all ‘dummies’ and still are! Not that they were stupid, for they were brilliant. They were full of knowledge, and many knew scripture by memory. The scribes and Pharisees were fools but they were not stupid; they taught even the ordinary Jews the things of God all the while they never understood God.

Indeed, Christians are inwardly Jews, just as Paul wrote. [vi] Consider about any Christian in modern times. What have they been taught? Believe the science. What does scripture teach? Believe in Jesus; trust God. What do even Christian do? They trust the science! We are indeed dummies!

How could it be that a man was raised from the dead? That is beyond science, is it not? No! Jesus revealed the science because He was the craftsman of life. He once made man from clay, so what would prevent Him from reviving a man from the dust? He is beyond the known science and men feared Jesus because in fact, He was a ‘know-it-all’ and could diminish them.

Naming this book what I did seems to insult those who read it. That is not the purpose, but to humble both the readers and me.

All my life, I have been a ‘dummy,’ even while making high marks in college. Why so? As an engineer, I questioned the timing of God because I trusted the science.

Consider Peter’s formula: 1 day = 1000 years. Rounding things off, using 5500 years, then there would be 2,007,500 day-years since the beginning of the world. Of course, that was never meant to be a formula but rhetoric. The point is that Christians have been dummies; that they question God and not science.

I resolved that contradiction in my mind. It is science that changes; God never changes! God said so, “I am the LORD; I change not.” [vii] It is science that is unstable and God who is stable. I trust the science, in a sense, because the Creation is scientific. The non-canonical Book of Enoch presents the science of it all. It is well worth reading. [1]

As many Christians have discovered, the truth offends even the intelligent. When Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh, all the brilliant minds of the day thought that could not be true. Jesus showed Himself as God, His three ‘Substances’ becoming undone to reveal the flesh of the man, the Spirit of God, and the Mind of the Father. The centurion who pierced the side of Jesus saw that and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” [viii]

The centurion was certainly not a dummy, neither was Pontius Pilate nor the repentant thief. They finally realized the truth; that this ‘man’ was who He said He is. They saw the science; they added 1+ 2 and got 3. Longinus, the centurion, knew mathematics and Jesus added up to the Godhead — Three in One — the Holy Trinity.

Scripture is indeed hard to understand, but salvation is not. All it took for the thief was to believe that Jesus was who He said He was and that, if God, then Jesus could save. Dismus, the thief, was not saved at that moment, but later that day, He was in Paradise — the place of salvation and the Holy Ghost of Jesus carried Him safely there.

In the movie Superman, Christopher Reeves flew down and scooped up Lois Lane (Margo Kidder), and said, “Don’t worry; I’ve got you,” to which she replied, “Yes, but who has you?” because they were both suspended in mid-air.

The repentant thief knew who had him! He could no longer see his idea of ‘Superman,’ but ‘Superman’ still had him in Spirit.

Like both the thief and Lois Lane, I always know who has me in His bosom and that is Holy Ghost of the man, Jesus who carries me over hurdle and hurdle! Jesus has me. I am in Christ, and you can be as well.

(picture credit; Warner Bros.)




[1] For your consideration, I have written the book of commentary about Enoch’s vision of the Creation entitled, Adoil Came Down: Arkhas Came Undone.



[i] Luke 24:25

[ii] 1 Cor 15:45

[iii] 2 Pet 3:8

[iv] Mat 27:52-53

[v] John 1:1-4

[vi] Rom 2:29

[vii] Mal 3:6

[viii] Mat 27:54

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