This will humble you as it has me! My own narcissistic attitude faded when I learned how decadent, even depraved, that I was before I was born again; albeit it was a very slow and painful rebirth.
Adam died just as God had warned;
the male and female of God’s kind devolved. They were not what they once
were. In the beginning they were glorious.
Focus on their states in the
beginning. Within their bodies was a soul that was the vessel for the contents
of God within. What did the soul look like? The invisible God; it was in His
Image that it was made, as you should well know by now. That “Image” from the
Hebrew was “Selem” — a “Shadow” or “Phantom”
That was the real man! He and she
were the shadows of God. Because “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at
all” (1 John 1:15) that “shadow” was not darkness but less intense light.
Mankind were not gods, but they too were the Light of God, just a dimmer
version if it is thought of in that manner.
Shadows have substance. It may
not be organic or metallic, but it is still a substance. Plato might have
thought, The truth is that the shadow of mankind — his and her souls — is a
fragment of the object. The
substance of their souls was Spirit for God breathed life unto them. The
substance of the inner male and female would have been the Spirit of God in
bodily shapes with the male and female of different forms.
Since life was breathed unto the
material bodies of the Adam, then he breathed it unto the woman, the male came
first and would be dominant.
Note that life became another
life, not by sexual interaction, but spiritual dynamics. There was nobody
created in the Garden that was created because of sexual union. That points to
the male and female never having pudenda until sin changed them.
That may be ambiguous, but
ancient writers of sacred literature share the same viewpoint.
Sin had changed the man and his woman, according to an unknown ancient writer:
They felt great trouble
from the food they had eaten, and to which they were not used, they went about
in the cave saying to each other:-- "What has happened to us through
eating, that this pain should have come upon us? Woe be to us, we shall die!
Better for us to have died than to have eaten; and to have kept our bodies
pure, than to have defiled them with food."
Then Adam said to Eve,
"This pain did not come to us in the garden, neither did we eat such bad
food there. Thinkest thou, O Eve, that God will plague us through the food that
is in us, or that our inwards will come out; or that God means to kill us with
this pain before He has fulfilled His promise to us?"
Then Adam besought the
Lord and said, "O Lord, let us not perish through the food we have eaten.
O Lord, smite us not; but deal with us according to Thy great mercy, and
forsake us not until the day of the promise Thou hast made us."
Then God looked upon
them, and at once fitted them for eating food; as unto this day; so that they
should not perish.
Then Adam and Eve came
back into the cave sorrowful and weeping because of the alteration in their
nature. And they both knew from that hour that they were altered beings, that
their hope of returning to the garden was now cut off; and that they could not
enter it. For that now their bodies had strange functions; and all flesh that
requires food and drink for its existence, cannot be in the garden.
That passage was taken from The
Book of Adam and Eve and Their Conflicts with Satan, chapter 45, 2-8). They
had just eaten figs and God provided for them digestive organs after
they had sinned.
Note their glorious appearance
before sin: They had shapes that were male and female respectively, and God
provided for them a covering (Gen 2:7). They were both naked (arom) and
were not ashamed (Gen 2:25). Their nakedness was without possession as
the word means in one context. It seems that their nakedness was transparency. Their
soul could be seen through whatever the substances of their fleshes. God and
any future passers-by could see the glory within them. The glory of God, much
dimmer than the Light of God, would have showed through their organic flesh. I
think of that covering as some substance that was similar to modern -day
transparent polymers that were alive due to what was within.
God said that they would die.
With sin, they died. As the sacred writing above reveals, they were no longer
glorious beings, but their nature became brutish and of the same substance as
the other kinds.
The man and the woman had
changed. Among other things, they felt pain because they had eaten. Hence, they
had to defecate but were unable to do so. God was graceful, He then equipped
them with digestive tracts. They innards would have taken on gross things and
with decay within them, they were no longer glorious but brutish.
The two inglorious beings drank water from just beyond the Garden. There were serious consequences, to wit:
Then the Word of God came to Adam, and said unto him, "O Adam, thy body is become brutish, and requires water to drink. Take ye, and drink, thou and Eve; give thanks and praise." Adam and Eve then drew near, and drank of it, until their bodies felt refreshed. After having drunk, they praised God, and then returned to their cave, after their former custom. This happened at the end of eighty-three days. (Ibid; 1 Adam & Eve 46:3-4)
They were then more like, “a
lower animal as distinguished from a human being”
Because of sin, God was gracious
because they were of God and like God in the beginning before sin when in the
realm of Paradise. It seems that Paradise was created in another realm with the
environment like the Earth but without decay of any sorts. In other words, the
Garden seemed to have been in another realm, and the two were cast out of it into
this realm (Gen 3;24). The place that God described for them (Gen 3) was a fair
description of our world here on planet Earth.
Mankind’s problem is ourselves.
Note that Satan (The “Serpent”) did not mandate man and the woman to do
anything; it was by their own volition that they disobeyed God and defied His
one and only command!
Satan does not make you do
anything. The male and the female were left alone to do as they pleased. The
aforementioned book is about them doing as they pleased and the consequences
that they suffered. Satan was always there with his cunningness, but not one time
did Satan make them eat or drink water. They were free agents to do whatever
pleased them, and for them, there was no king in the Kingdom of God, not even
Satan.
How did the two become brutish? They
defied the Deity, and they created a new deity. Right now, you are probably
thinking that the two made Satan lord of their lives. Not so, they became
masters of their own domain. The world was theirs now to either dress and keep
or to let perish. Satan neither helped not hindered them from their animal
husbandry. Before, Yahweh God, the Creator Father, was the Husbandman
(John 15:1), afterward they, just like Noah, became the husbandmen (Gen 9:20).
What is “husbandry”?
“The cultivation or production of
plants or animals”
Before sin, Adam was to dress and
keep the Garden wherein God performed the husbandry. God cultivated and
produced all things that turned out “very good” (Gen 1:31). That is an
understatement; they were created glorious; and how was that? It was meod tob
— abundantly the best, and not diminished at all. God’s creatures were all
glorious, bit only mankind was de-glorified in the Garden in heaven. The beasts
that were there then may still be there now, but the brutes were
made soulless. Life, then, is not the ability to articulate and grow, but the
kinds that have souls with the Spirit of God in them.
Demons are not in the souls of
men at their birth. Demons are real but get unto people for significant
reasons. Of great significance is those who have been born again; they are the
ones that need to remain sober and vigilant (1 Pet 5:8).
Satan via the “Serpent”
never got into the souls of the man and the woman. However, they died, died,
died. God got out of their bodies, their souls, and their lives. The man and
the woman were emancipated entirely from God and became free-range beasts that
must fend for themselves.
Who would get to them? Not Satan
for he is too cunning. The world would get them; that is revealed in Genesis
chapter three. They thought of themselves as the gods, and they would perish
themselves!
What happened with sin that Satan
did not get into their souls? “He” figuratively speaking, got into the flesh of
male and the female. Their souls were empty of God but their fleshes became
like Satan’s that was very different than the other existences. Again, The
Books of Adam and Eve reveals that Lucifer and “its” demons can morph into
various shapes and genders, even into beautiful, seductive women! (That itself
is a great argument against transsexualism; it is of the Devil.) To morph, or
transition, into any other existence is a abominable sin, or even to behave as
the Kenites behaved in the days of Noah — male to male pedophilia, according to
The Book of Jasher.
After sin, both the man and the
woman were ashamed of their non-transparency (Gen 2:25). No longer could the
Image of God be seen within them. They had new flesh in the manner of the older
creature, Satan (aka Lucifer, the Serpent, the Devil, the Beast, etc.)
Lucifer was not a beast like you
may imagine, but more like a beast in the movie Predator. Lucifer was an
invisible but extant being that could only be revealed by its effect on things
around it in the same manner as the movie. However, Lucifer could take on flesh
and appear to be just another beast, thus “The Beast” in scripture. Now I am
going somewhere. Scripture says:
For this is the message that you
heard from the beginning, that we should 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 3:11-12)
It started in the beginning. What
started? That us glorious creatures should love each other — to have goodwill
for each other.
Cain had neither goodwill for
Abel who was right with God nor even for God Himself. If you remember what a brute
is, there you have it. Cain lacked intelligence, sensitivity, or compassion
just as Merriam-Webster indicated. He lacked wisdom to use intelligence
rightly and showed no compassion. He was indeed like a viper within his flesh,
or nature. The brute hated his own flesh enough to kill the other who was a
reflection of himself; however the ”mirror” was better than the object, so Cain
broke the “mirror” because Abel reflected God and he reflected the wicked serpentine
creature.
Cain lost his birthright that
would be assumed by Seth upon the death of Abel, so she “bare a son, and called
his name ‘Seth’ for God, said she, ‘had appointed Me another seed instead of
Abel, whom Cain slew’” (Gen 4:25). Hence, both Abel and Seth were “sons of God”
because they were like their father, the male man, Adam. Cain was like Satan,
his “father” — the Devil.
Cain was much unlike Adam? It was
as if he had a different father or mother; or perhaps both!
(To be continued; why men are brutish)
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