This is an unedited chapter from my latest book about life. Please excuse the unedited errors.
The Bible is a book of life; and all things would
have been created to support life. Without life there would be no consciousness
because life is consciousness. There are many philosophical viewpoints about the
faculty of consciousness, but the theological viewpoint is awareness of God regardless
of His state of Being. For instance, the name Immanuel is “God with us.”
Scientifically, consciousness would be that our thoughts
would be the thoughts of God, The null hypothesis of that comes is
expressed in The Book of Isaiah from God and is about anybody who is not
God-conscious:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will
have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon for “My
thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways” said the
Lord; “for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than
your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
(Isa 55:7-9)
The “lost” — those whose thoughts are not God’s thoughts —
would not be conscious of God nor His works, attributing His works to self-made.
In other words, to the lost, the cosmos made itself and hence is the “god.”
How can God be known? Again, turn to scripture:
… that which may be known of God is
manifest in them; for God has showed it unto them for the invisible things of Him
from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without
excuse. (Rom 1:19-20)
The point that Paul was making with that is God is
manifested in the things that He has made. Because you exist in the world
should make you realize that God, albeit unseen, is reality. Understanding that
then your thoughts would be the thoughts of God because “In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1). If that is not your way of
thinking, then your thoughts do not parallel the thoughts of God, and you would
be “lost” in the sense that the truth escapes your mind; then you have
vicariously killed God. No, you did not pull the trigger but in your
thoughts, God would be dead to you.
You might be conscious to the things of the world, but you
would be unconscious to the things of heaven, and rest assured, Paradise is a
much grander, even glorious place than planet Earth.
There is no time in heaven whether Paradise or Hell. Nobody
understands how time could not exist, but any patient who has been sedated
knows, time does not exist in unconsciousness.
Many times, even for myself, when I think about God, time
does not exist. Even as I run three
miles, if my thoughts are on God, time does not exist for I am with God.
Likewise, if you are entertained by the things of the world,
time is compressed for you. Time is therefore an illusion. The evidence of time
is that humans age and grow weaker, but your mind never ages; it merely adjusts
to the world, unless of course, your mind is on things that you cannot change
such as the inevitability of death.
Think of death in terms of real experiences. Suppose you
wait in the lobby for your dentist to perform a root canal. You sit there
waiting with the dread of pain and drilling. With dread, time is expanded. The
clock does not slow down, but you might be overly conscious of the future which
by now, you can do nothing to change.
The same thing even applies to a watched clock that seems to
take forever to boil. You must admit that although time is measured by the things
of the cosmos, real time is measured by consciousness. With no life
during the formation of the cosmos, without life, real time would not exist. Time
would not exist without life to experience it, but only man has the thoughts of
God. So, in agreement with Michio Kaku, the world’s foremost astrophysicist, “In
the creation time did not exist,” and “time is a construct of man.”
Only Adam’s kind had life breathed unto him. While the other
kinds were living creatures, Adam had dominion over them (Gen 1:28).
The Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul. (Gen 2:7)
God made the other kinds living, but for Adam, God breathed
Himself unto Adam, making only Adam’s kind glorious in the manner of God. Adam
was created God-conscious. From the Hebrew (Gen 1:1), it is learned that God had
not created heaven and earth, but heaven/earth with Yeshua in it midst: Ha’Samayim
v’et Ha’eres wherein v’et would be the binding force (vav)
between the aleph and the tav. As is learned about Jesus — the “alpha
and omega; the beginning and the end” (Rev 1:8) — time would not exist
in the Garden of the Lord for it’s substance was both lofty and firm things.
Without human consciousness during creation, time would not
have existed. However, for lower states of men, they would exist with no
consciousness of time.
Adam would have been mindful only of God and His pleasant
things as “Eden” means. Eden is more than a place but a state of being — עֵדֶן, reading from right to left: ayin (observation) – dalet
entry into space/time and matter — nun, the uncertainty of life.
The name “Eden” implies within space/time and matter but an
unawareness of it. It would be pleasant because there would be no fear of it
ending.
To confirm that hypothesis, I tested it using AI Overview,
asking “Does the Hebrew
pictographs spelling ‘Eden’ imply unconscious of time?” The answer:
Yes, when interpreted through the lens of
ancient Paleo-Hebrew pictographs, the spelling of "Eden" (עֵדֶן) can be understood to
imply a state of existence outside of linear time, often interpreted as an
"unconscious of time" or a state of eternal presence… (then the
details followed by the summary.) While the literal definition is
"pleasure," the deeper paleo-pictographic analysis indicates that
Eden symbolizes a primordial state of being and direct communion with the
divine, free from the limitations of linear time. (AI
Overview)
Further evidence is the word, eastward (קֶדֶם qedem)
in “eastward of Eden.” The literal meaning of the pictographs is “before time” (ibid).
Time would not have existed in the Garden of Eden because Adam’s kind would not
be aware of the world outside the Garden.
Man’s first encounter with the world would have been with
the penalty for sin; “So God drove out the man; and He placed at the east (qedem)
of the Garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the Tree of Life” (Gen 3:24).
The word “drove” there is literally thrust and the “Way”
(דֶּרֶךְ derek; the “Way” is a change in states
from glorious to common and mortal man.
Adam and the woman would have been thrust out from the Tree
of Life into the world with all its tribulations (Gen 3). “The eyes of them
both were opened, and they knew that they were naked” (Gen 3:7). They would
have gained consciousness of things to come, and with that, the concept of time
would have come with a change in states of mind, once being unaware of the
things of their world (Gen 2:25) , they became aware (Gen 3:7). Hence time
began with the consciousness of sinful man. Thereafter time was measured in
years for Adam withered in 930 years (Gen 5:30).
If time did not exist in the Garden provides evidence that
unconscious man-like creatures existed before time ever began. The beasts of
the field (Gen 2:19) would have existed without consciousness of God from the
beginning when all things were made that were made (John 1:1-3). Time would not
have existed for them because they were in “Salem” — a place of peace. Time would
not have existed for Adam and his mate because they were content and at peace
until they sinned.
Now consider the concept of guilt and the dread of being
exposed. With awareness that God saw unto their souls, they felt naked and
ashamed. If you have sinned and feared being revealed, you understand the
feeling of that. Your conscience bothers you because the conscious is the judge
of moral standards. Imagine the dread that arose from being found out and the punishment that might ensue! It is
assumed that immediately upon sin being confessed that their state of existence
went from unconscious of evil to be fully aware of it.
Indeed, Adam and Eve were cast out, not into the world, but
unto consciousness of the evil things of the world.
It is difficult to understand that beasts could reproduce
animals from the wombs of animals and feces in Paradise, but their existence
would have been in the world alone. Because they had not God in them, for them,
there would have not been any disgusting things. It was perhaps that they lived
alongside Adam in the world, but they would have lived in a state of unconsciousness
of the morality of God exemplified by the “conscious.”
Adam and Eve would remain in the Garden of the Lord (later
to be called Israel; Gen 3:10), but they lost consciousness to the Tree of
Life, or Yeshua. They would have been thrust out from a state of
innocence to a state of guiltiness and always aware of their conscience, or
rules of behavior set by God.
Most Christians follow their conscience because for them,
their conscience is the consciousness of God; they care about what God.
What was different about mankind than the other beasts of
the field? The life in them was the consciousness of God within them. No wonder
the Image of God in them is in b’tsalmenu (בְּצַלְמֵנוּ ;
Gen 1:26). That word means “in the shadow of the Creator.” Since God is Light,
then Adam was a lesser light in the shape of a man.
There would have been lower states of men than Adam without Tselem
in them. [1] (That refers to the “creeping
things” of Genesis 1:28).
With time non-existent before consciousness provides how manlike
upright anthropoids might have roamed the Garden of the Lord simultaneously
with Adam. Albeit they were made by God, Adam alone had God Elohim in
his person. It is not that the creeping thing was evil but had no conscience
nor even consciousness of time.
Both Adam and the lower state of man could have lived in the
world as the celestial bodies went their ways, but none of them would have worried
about time. For none of the beasts of the field, or innocent Adam, would time
have been a construct.
The world existed from the beginning and what we call “time”
had past, but intelligent creatures would have known no time for like the movie,
Ground Hog Day, one day was like the other and full of pleasure. Only
with consciousness of evil in the world would the conscience of man be aroused.
Hence, the Garden of the Lord would have been the world and the realm of God in
one. With sin, mankind would have lost consciousness of the other realm where
time does not exist. In their minds, heaven and earth would have been separated
and they would no longer be conscious of either God or His realm. A blurb from pseudepigrapha
agrees with that assessment:
Then Adam wept and said, "O’ God,
when we dwelt in the garden, and our hearts were lifted up, we saw the angels
that sang praises in heaven, but now we do not see as we were used to do; nay,
when we entered the cave, all creation became hidden from us."
Then God the Lord said unto Adam,
"When thou wast under subjection [to Me], thou hadst a bright nature
within thee, and for that reason couldst thou see things afar off. But after
thy transgression thy bright nature was withdrawn from thee; and it was not
left to thee to see things afar off, but only near at hand; after the ability
of the flesh; for it is brutish."
When Adam and Eve had heard these words
from God, they went their way; praising and worshipping Him with a sorrowful
heart. And God ceased to commune with them. (Adam
& Eve: VIII)
Adam and Eve did not go anywhere; their nature had changed
from all-seeing like God to a dim nature whose vision of godly things were no
longer available to them. Two had lost the Elohim (thoughts of God) that
they once had and now their thoughts were on visible things alone. They could
no longer see God but knew He was still there by the things that God did for
them (in that same book.)
Because you still live means that God still lives. He would not
have died on the cross but gave up all His virtue to heal the nations (Rev
22:2). God cannot die but can be diminished. Adam did not die to God, but God would
have been diminished in his sight.
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