All sins are not of equal seriousness;
albeit even the tiniest sin without repentance results in eternal death; “For
all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).
One might ask, “How have I sinned?”
especially an innocent child or the purest do-gooder.
Sin is inborn. Because of
ancestral sin by repetition, sin is engrained within the nature of mankind;
thusly the theological term, “original sin.” Because you are of the humankind makes
you a sinner.
That does not seem fair, nor does
it seem fair that the most faithful creatures — canines — have no hope of
eternal life. Mankind was chosen before the foundation of the world, to wit:
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. (Ephes 1:3-5)
Now ask yourselves some questions:
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Who did God choose? Answer: He chose “us” —
mankind. He could have chosen one of the other kinds or all the kinds. God made
mankind alone in His Image (Gen 1:27), and mankind, both the male and the female,
had dominion over the other kinds. (Gen 1:26). Mankind, not the other kinds,
were supreme; only we were “children” of God in the beginning. Children
in the sense that only mankind had the identity, or genome of God. We were
chosen to be like God.
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What was the “blessing”? Answer: He gave us a
spiritual nature. The Image that God blessed mankind with was spiritual. His “Image”
with which He blessed man was a “Shadow’ (Hebrew; Selem) of Himself.
That “Shadow” was a phantom being (Strong 2006) which is called the “soul”
within the body of our progenitors (Gen 2:7).
The
soul is a living spirit of God with flesh (ibid). Ancients called the souls
of man identical to the body of man down to the fingers. Hence, the soul of man
with which we were blessed is just like us only of a very different substance. We
are three beings in one just like God: body, soul, and life. Like God, mankind
is not just an image, but an animated being which can move of its own accord in
any direction that it desires. Mankind moved away from God with original sin
and their souls went with the bodies.
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Where did the blessing occur? Answer: “In
heavenly places.” Note that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.” The first verses of Genesis 2 indicate that part one was done; the
heaven was created and within the heaven, the souls of male and female Adam,
respectively were created; “God created man in His own image, in the Image of
God created He him; male and female created He them” (Gen 2:7). God did that
before He put onto them bodies made of material (Gen 2:7 and Gen 2:22).
Chapter one was the creation of the souls of the
two Adams and chapter two was about the creation of the flesh of the two. If
chapter one was about the creation of the heaven, indeed any animals that were
in heaven would still be in heaven to this day because they did not sin. It is
expected that they are living creatures without souls like man. In fact, there
will be creatures in Paradise that were there from the beginning, but they too
will be of a different substance. Since, we were the ones chosen (“the elect;”
Mat 24:22), only mankind has souls like God’s; and the animals in Paradise would
just be of a different substance than they are here.
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When were we blessed? Answer: “Before the
foundation of the world.” Genesis chapter one is about the creation of
heaven, if my premise is right, and chapter two is about the creation of the
earth, or firm things. Heaven is the non-firm things (lofty).
The “election” was not an election. Nobody
voted. It was a “divine selection” (ibid), not natural selection. The
heavenly creatures were just made (Gen 1:25), but man was made in His Image
(Gen 1:26). Man was made much different than the beasts and before the
foundation of the world, or the firm things in Genesis chapter two when God
created the earth; not the planet, but firm things.
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When did that blessing occur in time? Answer:
Before time even began. Like much of the Hebrew, the first mention of time is “in
the process of time” (Gen 4:3). Literally, that is “the end of hotness” (ibid).
It is a twisting from the cooling, in other words, a “process” just as translated.
In
like manner, the “days” of the creation use the same word, “yom” — a
hotness. Darkness or night, God called “layil” — a twisting, obviously
from the day. “Evening” is “’ereb” the dusk wherein cooling occurs. Hence, time
did not exist during the creation at least in the same increments. Hence, the
creation was a “cyclic process” made up not of increments of time but different
thermodynamic processes.
A process requires energy, activity, and cooling
to reach equilibrium. The “days’ of creation are not time oriented, but process
oriented just as Genesis 4:3 implies.
They
could have occurred consecutively or simultaneously with each cyclic process
becoming part of the whole. In other words, all seven of the processes could
have been at once. Indeed, the theory now in vogue since the James Watt Space
Telescope reported back, in the creation “time did not exist.” Appended to
that, according to Michio Kaku is that “time is a construct of man.” The Bible
somewhat confirms that if the Hebrew is taken literally.
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Who is God in scripture? Answer: He and him
are not in scripture. They were added to indicate that God is paternal, albeit “He”
is neither male nor female, but was a source of our genetics in both males and
females. God would have supplied the nuclear genetics that makes humans, human.
“God” is the theos and is the “father” (pater) of the Lord Jesus.
Theos is the “Godhead” — the Holy Trinity — Yahweh, the Progenitor,
His Image, and His Progeny.” Yahweh is the Creator God, the “Dynamis”
aspect of the Godhead. His Dynamic is Virtue, according to the Greek. Hence, “God
is Good” (Psalm 73:1). God in all three aspects, or substances.
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What is “adoption”? Answer: It is necessary
because of sin wherein children of God emancipated themselves. Time began for
mankind with sin because sin was the advent of death. The two Adams could have
lived for eons before sin in an economy wherein time did not exist. The plant
and animal kingdom could have come and gone, or even existed all along with
mankind.
The
animals of chapter one of Genesis would not have been subject to decay
until mankind sinned. Perhaps they went extinct when mankind sinned, and that
God carried so many of them through the advent of sin and many were driven out
of the Garden of Eden with man (Gen 3:24).
They
would have been expatriated from one economy to another. In other words, they
were renounced by God because they were then of the Wicked One like Cain (1
John 3:12). In expatriated, the “ex” means “out of” and “patria”
comes from the Latin meaning “father” (Douglas Harper 2001-2023). Hence, God removed
His own genetics from the man and the woman. They were not necessarily cast out
of anyplace but were emancipated from the good Genes of Father God. Of course,
without the Genome of God in them, they would indeed be aliens to Paradise, and
God had made a place for them in this world wherein tribulation exists.
Because they
were emancipated from the paternity of God, then to be “born again” (John 3:7)
means that God would engender them (Strong
2006)
from above. Lost sinners would then be adopted sons of God, not biologically,
but by regenning. It would be interesting to test whether the genetics of a
Christian is any different than before he or she was born again.
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How did God “predestine” us? Answer: He
determined beforehand. He decreed from eternity. Well, that goes back to before
time again. When was eternity? Before time began. What happened before time
began with the advent of sin? Adam’s kind was selected as the favored kind, having
dominion over the other kinds. It was everyone, the “whosoever” in John
3:16, that was predestined; at least everyone who trusted in Him to regenerate;
that God had the power, mercy, and genetics as the “Father” to do so. Jesus was
the only Person with the Genome of God in Him. Hence, Jesus is the Way. God
predestined anyone who would trust Him. Anyone else He would not. He wanted
everyone to trust Him, knowing full-well that many would not. The
predestination was that all would sin. The choice was that some preferred not
to sin. That independence comes from good kings. Their allegiance is not forced
but goodwill comes from their own will.
The commentary is about
exhausted, but the point is made that every word in “The Word” must be analyzed.
Take nothing for granted. The English versions are not literal, but the Greek
and Hebrew are more so. When Jesus spoke, He spoke in the Greek. Some words are
not exact between languages, so context and the ingenuity of the translators is
important.
If you are alive, you have sinned.
That is the answer to the original question in the first paragraph. You have
sinned because you are human. It is in your genetics and has been since the
original sin. It is not your fault that you are a sinner, but it is your fault
if you remain so!
Death commenced with sin, did it
not? We all shall die because we “all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God” (Rom 3:23).
How do babies sin? There are
types of sin: inbred, accidental, by omission, and by commission. They are not
equal sins, but anyone of them is coming short of God’s Will — His “Glory,” or
nature.
Accidental sins are those we do
without understanding that they are sins. An example may be working on the
Sabbath or the Lord’s Day when the exact time may not be known, or another;
tripping because we think that we can carry our own load. It is with good
intentions but bad performances. Accidental sins are endeavoring to do every Law
of God, albeit it is impossible.
Sins of commission are knowingly
usurping God. We might know His Will but proceed anyway with things against His
Will.
Sins of omission are knowing His Will
but having apathy for His Will, or just being too lazy to perform as expected.
The most common sin of omission is the failure to commune with God, especially the
failure to pray, or to pray with vanity, as if it has no effect.
Which is the greater category of
sin? Accidental ones? No. Sins of commission; things we do knowing they are
wrong.
Now examine the crucifixion? The accidental
sin was, believe it or not, the ones who nailed and the one who pierced the
side of Jesus. To them, He was just another malefactor, and they were only
doing their job. They had no hatred for Jesus; They were only doing mechanical
things like hammering and piercing. Jesus said, “They know not what they do”
(Luke 23:34).
Others knew what they were doing.
Pilate understood that Jesus was who He said He was and washed his own hands of
the activity. He was not a religious man, but seemed to be a student of philosophism
with his question, “What is truth?” However, he knew that he was doing wrong because
he was a sensitive man. He committed the act by his orders. His was an act of
commission. However, Jesus understood his situation and expressed it: “You
could have no power at all against Me, except it were given thee from above:
therefore, he that delivered me unto you has the greater sin” (John 9:11).
Of whom was Jesus speaking? At
first glance, it seems to be the chief priest Caiaphas. Caiphas did in fact
deliver Jesus to His death, and indeed, Caiphas did not have good will for the
Person of God. However, Caiaphas did not know that Jesus is God! He thought
Jesus was only a pretender to the throne of Judea which was empty. He may have
wanted the regime of Annas to continue with himself as king in the manner of
John Hyrcanus who was priest and king before. If Caiphas had known that Jesus
was God, then would he have killed God? It was incumbent on himself to learn
the truth. He failed that. Neither did he know what he was doing! His was a sin
of omission.
Who killed Jesus, then if not Pilate,
the executioners, nor the chief priests? The Jews did not kill Jesus, either. The
Jewish leaders were not the guiltiest just as Jesus said.
Well, the One who killed Jesus
was Father God. Jesus implied that when he answered Pilate. It was God who sacrificed
His only Son. Of course, Jesus was no more the literal “Son of God” than He was
the literal “son of David,” although He was
called both.
Peter had said, “You are the
Christ, the Son (huios) of the living God” (Mat 16:16). Jesus was not
born of God; He always existed (John 1:1-14). Jesus was the posterity of God.
He was God in the flesh. He was not a born Being, but God borne there
from above, as in “transported” or “translated.” In a sense, Mary was just the “Ark”
wherein Yahweh was transported from another realm to this one and given
flesh so that He could be seen.
The best guess is that the Spirit
in Jesus was the very Image of God. As the “Son” that would have been the
genetics of Yahweh and the “Glory of God” would have been the Genome of
God. When we are glorified, then we are engendered somehow with the genetics of
God to become in Christ, or actually, Yahweh in us.
I have written before that the Yahweh
in Jesus is the very Genome of God within Him — that the genetics of Jesus was
God’s, possibly the YY-chromosome.
The greater sin was that God took
on the sins of mankind, as Paul wrote, “For He has made Him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor
5:21). For the first time ever, God sinned. He had to know our sin to comprehend
sin.
To be blunt, Yahweh suicided
Himself just as Satan did himself with Judas. Judas endeavored to propitiate
his own blood to rid himself of Satan. He became “god” for a few moments. He
was the Antichrist of that day who had Satan in himself. He tried to sacrifice
himself for his own sin, but that was not efficacious. Judas was under control
of Satan. Satan was guilty of killing Judas.
On the other hand, God (Yahweh)
killed Jesus as He sacrificed His only “Son;” not His offspring, but His own
Identity for the Ghost within the man, Jesus, was God Himself. God was in every
nuclear cell of the flesh of the man, Jesus. His Genome might very well be the
Holy Ghost that left the Body of God upon dying.
The greatest sin was God’s
suicide of Himself. It was a sin of commission that He did, but for right
reasons; Jesus had to die so that we could live forever. He did what any good
king would do!
What about the apostles? They too
killed Jesus. What was their sins? They stood silently by while Jesus was
dying. They could have picked up their own crosses and die instead of Him, but they
did not. Their sins were sins of omission. When we stand idly by while God is
diminished, we too are silent killers.
Sins of commission kill God even
more effectively. Each sin is as if hammering a nail into the appendages of
God.
It is easy for us to sacrifice
ourselves for Jesus. Picking up our own crosses and following Him is just a matter
of dying to the will of our fleshes. It is not even painful; we need not even
sacrifice our foreskins but only the hardness of our hearts. The greatest sin for
us is that so many fail to sacrifice our flesh, even Christians, who still
continually subject themselves to the ways of the world. Maybe it is doing
things contrary to God, but worse yet, it is omitting God from our lives. Do
that often enough and we have again emancipated ourselves from God. That is
apostasy — once having affection for God, some Christians defecting.
You may not be as secure as you
think, or it would not be written, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour”
(1 Pet 5:8).
So, who killed Jesus? We all did!
Even His disciples who stood idly by. Yahweh God did the “bloody deed,”
as Moses wife would say, but He did it because us all, for all have sinned.
