Certain extremely significant
biblical truths
are just not talked about
in most Christian groups;
they are kept hidden,
and only whispered about
in the inner circles.
Truths that
when discovered
by the common laity
cause splits in churches,
and denominations to fall apart.
There is no getting around
these truths.
They are biblical,
and either are true,
or the Bible contains
novel conjecture and mythological
precepts.
Christian doctrine holds
that a lie was told
in Eden;
but what is that lie?
As it is written in Genesis,
there were
at least two trees
in the midst
of the garden:
the tree of life,
and
the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
Adam was told
by the One
who created Eden:
“Of every tree of the garden
you may freely eat:
But of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil,
you shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that you eat thereof
you shalt surely die.”
The story continues a few verses later:
Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made.
And he said unto the woman,
“Yea, hath God said,
Ye shall not eat
of every tree of the garden?”
And the woman said
unto the serpent,
“We may eat
of the fruit of the trees
of the garden:
But
of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden,
God hath said,
‘Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die.’”
And the serpent said unto the woman,
“Ye shall not surely die,
For God knows
that in the day you eat thereof,
your eyes shall be opened,
and you shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.”
The lie is obvious.
“Ye shall not surely die:”
That is the lie!!
But what liar ever succeeds
by delivering a lie
with other lies?
A true deceiver
packages lies
with truth.
A deceiver comes
as an angel of light.
Consider the possibility
That the rest
of what the serpent said to Eve
is true,
and you will not find it to be
inconsistent with the rest of scripture!
And the Lord God said,
“behold the man
is become as one of us
to know good and evil . . .”
Consider Psalms 82.5-7
They know not,
neither will they understand;
they walk on in darkness:
all the foundations of the earth
are out of course.
I have said,
“Ye are gods;
and all of you
are children of the most High.”
But ye shall die like men,
and fall like one of the princes.
For most of my adult life
I shelved the possibility
that the scripture
actually means what it says
about the children of Israel,
being children of the Most High
and literally divine beings,
or gods.
I can shelve it no longer.
The Psalms writer
did not write
metaphorically
in this instance,
and is perfectly clear:
the children of Israel,
to whom he was writing,
are gods,
children of the most High.
When scripture is read
through any lens
other than this
it takes on a shallow dimension,
and collapses
on a corrupted meaning.
The political puppets of Israel
had yoked themselves
to Rome
under their corrupted perspective
of scripture
and as a result,
perceived Yashua as evil,
the devil,
rather than their King.
Jesus answered them,
“Many good works have I shown you
from my Father;
for which of those works do ye stone me?
The Jews answered him, saying,
“For a good work we stone thee not;
but for blasphemy;
and because that thou,
being a man, makes thyself God.”
Jesus answered them,
“Is it not written in your law,
‘I have said, ye are Gods?’
If he called them gods,
unto whom the word of God came,
and the scripture cannot be broken;
Say ye of him,
whom the Father hath sanctified,
and sent into the world,
Thou blasphemest; because I said,
I am the Son of God?”
Within a proper scope of
understanding
this passage
makes perfect sense:
“If ye have faith
as a grain of mustard seed,
ye shall say unto this mountain,
‘Remove hence to yonder place;
and it shall remove’;
and nothing
shall be impossible unto you.”
No wonder
Peter could walk on water,
Walk through the walls of a jail,
Heal the sick
and raise the dead.
No wonder we can too!
“He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also;
and greater works than these shall he do”
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