Paul Thomas
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Why does a man have to know? Why is bread not enough? And what is important in the arena of knowing? Some clues are given in the Story of Eden, or the making of the man God purposed in the Creation Story of Seven Days. The man was obligated to one duty he was to perform. He was to care for and nurture his garden, the environment of his habitation.
What was that environment? It was a garden called Eden and it had unique boundaries. There were two lands and four water sources in Eden. Eden is understood to be the man's delight, his happiness.
Eden means delight. Proper names supply specific meaning in the context of the story. A long time ago, when these ancient stories were first orally communicated (by the time they were written down much of their meanings had fallen into obscurity. They became "myths" and were mysterious and therefore not believable. Myth is a bad word today, means lie.), the audience would know what was being transmitted. Like when the first man gave names to all the animals, God understood what the man felt when he heard the name come out of his mouth. The man didn't know because he didn't have a feeling body yet; he didn't have helpmate. As all languages evolve, the word is given to the tongue so that the listener can hear it and understand. The right word arouses the felt feeling, or the felt feeling names the right word, the feeling that is familiar, is family, to the living body. The familiarity is the word. The feeling is the living body's reaction to the objective world. The word enlightened the man because it came from the light, and brought understanding. That's Eden, and in Eden was a unique kind of pleasure, the pleasure of knowing. Knowing good and evil is nobody's delight.
In Eden the "man" is informed by his maker, a deity named Yahweh God, that life is "not good" if he remains alone and they promise to find him a helpmate. They bring all the animals to the man to see if a helpmate can be found for him, but the animals are not suitable. The animals were just like the man, all dirt bags, made from the soil of the earth and in most all ways, without substance. That is why the man needed a helpmate, he needed something WITH substance. The promise of a helpmate implies that the man will need "help" in his job of caring for and nurturing his delight, i.e. understanding. His happiness is in delight, it comes from the light of understanding, from the gift given on the first day of creation. Knowing is seeing with the eyes of the living body. He can't do his duty alone, he can't do his duty without seeing for himself.
God loves you! Turns out, his helpmate is his flesh and blood body, that he names "woman." Although it is NOT his; his body, along with everyone else's, belongs to God. This is true knowledge, something that without understanding and accepting, a man will not be able to live. You know, the body is the mother of all those who live; the wife of that body the man named Eve. Your flesh body is like God, according to the account; it is one of the images of God. For this reason it stands without question that anyone who has eyes to see, sees God REALLY in every body moving on this earth. The body is "one" of the images of God. And whoever might believe that God doesn't suffer must have his or her head deeply buried in the sand. Other people might be more explicit and say a lost individual has its head up its rectum; but that would be wrong since that implies connection to the living body and there would be suffering for that individual.
When Yahweh God fashioned man from the dust of the soil, and breathed life into his nose, the man didn't know that he had a living body of flesh and that blood was its life force. For him to know that, really, he had first to leave his mom and dad and be on his own and join himself with his wife, who would be the spokesperson for their mutually one living/breathing body. (The prophet Malachi affirms what I am saying. 1:14-16.) The living body of each and every one of us is the home and habitat of wife, or spirit spokesperson for the flesh body. The story says there was no shame with its design or function, it was perfect, even when it isn't hidden behind clothes. Aren't we taught that "clothes" make the individual, that fashion is the living image? When religion later takes hold and is put into practice, this idea of our perfect bodies is again reiterated, in the "perfect" animals that were required for the expiation of sin and transgression when someone had trespassed on another's perfect body.
The man in the garden was an adolescent, not much different than teenagers today. The basics of life are hardly known today, by most all of us. We are learning and today more of us are willing to continue learning than every before. We are willing to take chances and open our hearts to new understandings, THANK GOD. What other "new" understandings were in the garden of that first man so many thousands of years ago?
Eden is the environment of the four generations of man. What is a generation? A generation is a lifetime, a specific time of growth and maturation confined by specific parameters. Let's say you are an adult, older than 21 (Daniel stated that to reach fatherhood, i.e. maturity, you would need two and a half times the given time to get there). According to the Book of Genesis, you (at the age of 22) are in your last generation, the fourth one. You have passed through three lifetimes getting to adulthood. A generation, as conceived and expressed in the Genesis Book, was seven years duration. There were two lands in Eden, each with their own water sources. The first generation was a land called Havilah and was the time of the mother/child and the second land was called Cush and it was the time of the father/son. (These two "lands" show up as "sons" in Noah's genealogy. Makes sense, since the soil of the earth was the "man's" body.) The third generation just had a water source, called the Tigress, and was the man/woman generation, or adolescence. The man in the garden didn't know that this was "his" generation, the time of joining up. He thought this was LIFE! What he might have known was that it was called the "man" generation and that the waters were "wild;" but probably not. He just experienced it, like all of us who have gone through and maybe still not gotten out of the "man" generation. The last generation was unknown, except that the waters that fed that generation were called "Good" or the Euphrates, the good waters. This last water source in Eden is retold or reintroduced in John's Book of Revelations. It is the waters that flow from beneath the throne of the Lamb in the New Jerusalem, on whose banks grow the trees that bear fruit year round that heal the living bodies of all who partake of their truths, their fruits.
A big problem at the beginning of the Bible is the fourth generation. It was non-existent. There were no fathers. God was a man, he was not a "loving" father, and he was divided between the good God, God, and the bad God, Yahweh. The father generation first appeared in the person of Joseph at the end of Genesis but would not gain appreciation or comprehension in our species until the time of the New Testament where Jesus first introduces the idea of a relationship between father and son and the part it plays in the maturation of a whole and vivant living individual. The man in the garden didn't have a "father," he was "made" by an adolescent, transcendent God/man. Remember, man is the image and likeness of God! It was for that reason that the man lost his delight, after quote/unquote living in the middle of it for some duration without any comprehension. That is not a blight against teenagers, especially teenagers who have never known who their father was/is. Very common still among ALL men kind, the exceptions are what are rare. The man didn't have any understanding to begin with and consequently he never got around to practicing any care or nurturing because he failed at "joining up" with his living body and was expelled, prohibited from, doing his duty and finding a fulfilled and happy life.
What is the deepest, most fundamental, meaning of our Bible. It is regeneration, or the raising of the dead of an earlier generation, a past lifetime, back to life. The meaning is the resurrection of the dead! (It is only the devout who hope, everybody else could care less; but the devout are told their hope has to be put on hold until they are dead!) How did the Apostle Paul put it in one of his letters? Where is the bite of death, where the fear of dying! Paul had been born again, after he died, and he had forgot all about death. This happens in our living bodies, or as Job promises: "This I know: that my Avenger lives, and he, the Last, will take his stand on earth. After my awakening, he will set me close to him, and from my flesh I shall look on God." 19:25,26. Job's words came true in his lifetime, just as they can come true in anyone's. The avenger is the spirit of God, the spirit of all flesh bodies, and he is after the "Man", because from the very beginning the Man has a ban on him. The Man is the "being" one, not the Adam man, and when he dies the ban on his body will be lifted.
Tues. Dec. 23, 2008
What was that environment? It was a garden called Eden and it had unique boundaries. There were two lands and four water sources in Eden. Eden is understood to be the man's delight, his happiness.
Eden means delight. Proper names supply specific meaning in the context of the story. A long time ago, when these ancient stories were first orally communicated (by the time they were written down much of their meanings had fallen into obscurity. They became "myths" and were mysterious and therefore not believable. Myth is a bad word today, means lie.), the audience would know what was being transmitted. Like when the first man gave names to all the animals, God understood what the man felt when he heard the name come out of his mouth. The man didn't know because he didn't have a feeling body yet; he didn't have helpmate. As all languages evolve, the word is given to the tongue so that the listener can hear it and understand. The right word arouses the felt feeling, or the felt feeling names the right word, the feeling that is familiar, is family, to the living body. The familiarity is the word. The feeling is the living body's reaction to the objective world. The word enlightened the man because it came from the light, and brought understanding. That's Eden, and in Eden was a unique kind of pleasure, the pleasure of knowing. Knowing good and evil is nobody's delight.
In Eden the "man" is informed by his maker, a deity named Yahweh God, that life is "not good" if he remains alone and they promise to find him a helpmate. They bring all the animals to the man to see if a helpmate can be found for him, but the animals are not suitable. The animals were just like the man, all dirt bags, made from the soil of the earth and in most all ways, without substance. That is why the man needed a helpmate, he needed something WITH substance. The promise of a helpmate implies that the man will need "help" in his job of caring for and nurturing his delight, i.e. understanding. His happiness is in delight, it comes from the light of understanding, from the gift given on the first day of creation. Knowing is seeing with the eyes of the living body. He can't do his duty alone, he can't do his duty without seeing for himself.
God loves you! Turns out, his helpmate is his flesh and blood body, that he names "woman." Although it is NOT his; his body, along with everyone else's, belongs to God. This is true knowledge, something that without understanding and accepting, a man will not be able to live. You know, the body is the mother of all those who live; the wife of that body the man named Eve. Your flesh body is like God, according to the account; it is one of the images of God. For this reason it stands without question that anyone who has eyes to see, sees God REALLY in every body moving on this earth. The body is "one" of the images of God. And whoever might believe that God doesn't suffer must have his or her head deeply buried in the sand. Other people might be more explicit and say a lost individual has its head up its rectum; but that would be wrong since that implies connection to the living body and there would be suffering for that individual.
When Yahweh God fashioned man from the dust of the soil, and breathed life into his nose, the man didn't know that he had a living body of flesh and that blood was its life force. For him to know that, really, he had first to leave his mom and dad and be on his own and join himself with his wife, who would be the spokesperson for their mutually one living/breathing body. (The prophet Malachi affirms what I am saying. 1:14-16.) The living body of each and every one of us is the home and habitat of wife, or spirit spokesperson for the flesh body. The story says there was no shame with its design or function, it was perfect, even when it isn't hidden behind clothes. Aren't we taught that "clothes" make the individual, that fashion is the living image? When religion later takes hold and is put into practice, this idea of our perfect bodies is again reiterated, in the "perfect" animals that were required for the expiation of sin and transgression when someone had trespassed on another's perfect body.
The man in the garden was an adolescent, not much different than teenagers today. The basics of life are hardly known today, by most all of us. We are learning and today more of us are willing to continue learning than every before. We are willing to take chances and open our hearts to new understandings, THANK GOD. What other "new" understandings were in the garden of that first man so many thousands of years ago?
Eden is the environment of the four generations of man. What is a generation? A generation is a lifetime, a specific time of growth and maturation confined by specific parameters. Let's say you are an adult, older than 21 (Daniel stated that to reach fatherhood, i.e. maturity, you would need two and a half times the given time to get there). According to the Book of Genesis, you (at the age of 22) are in your last generation, the fourth one. You have passed through three lifetimes getting to adulthood. A generation, as conceived and expressed in the Genesis Book, was seven years duration. There were two lands in Eden, each with their own water sources. The first generation was a land called Havilah and was the time of the mother/child and the second land was called Cush and it was the time of the father/son. (These two "lands" show up as "sons" in Noah's genealogy. Makes sense, since the soil of the earth was the "man's" body.) The third generation just had a water source, called the Tigress, and was the man/woman generation, or adolescence. The man in the garden didn't know that this was "his" generation, the time of joining up. He thought this was LIFE! What he might have known was that it was called the "man" generation and that the waters were "wild;" but probably not. He just experienced it, like all of us who have gone through and maybe still not gotten out of the "man" generation. The last generation was unknown, except that the waters that fed that generation were called "Good" or the Euphrates, the good waters. This last water source in Eden is retold or reintroduced in John's Book of Revelations. It is the waters that flow from beneath the throne of the Lamb in the New Jerusalem, on whose banks grow the trees that bear fruit year round that heal the living bodies of all who partake of their truths, their fruits.
A big problem at the beginning of the Bible is the fourth generation. It was non-existent. There were no fathers. God was a man, he was not a "loving" father, and he was divided between the good God, God, and the bad God, Yahweh. The father generation first appeared in the person of Joseph at the end of Genesis but would not gain appreciation or comprehension in our species until the time of the New Testament where Jesus first introduces the idea of a relationship between father and son and the part it plays in the maturation of a whole and vivant living individual. The man in the garden didn't have a "father," he was "made" by an adolescent, transcendent God/man. Remember, man is the image and likeness of God! It was for that reason that the man lost his delight, after quote/unquote living in the middle of it for some duration without any comprehension. That is not a blight against teenagers, especially teenagers who have never known who their father was/is. Very common still among ALL men kind, the exceptions are what are rare. The man didn't have any understanding to begin with and consequently he never got around to practicing any care or nurturing because he failed at "joining up" with his living body and was expelled, prohibited from, doing his duty and finding a fulfilled and happy life.
What is the deepest, most fundamental, meaning of our Bible. It is regeneration, or the raising of the dead of an earlier generation, a past lifetime, back to life. The meaning is the resurrection of the dead! (It is only the devout who hope, everybody else could care less; but the devout are told their hope has to be put on hold until they are dead!) How did the Apostle Paul put it in one of his letters? Where is the bite of death, where the fear of dying! Paul had been born again, after he died, and he had forgot all about death. This happens in our living bodies, or as Job promises: "This I know: that my Avenger lives, and he, the Last, will take his stand on earth. After my awakening, he will set me close to him, and from my flesh I shall look on God." 19:25,26. Job's words came true in his lifetime, just as they can come true in anyone's. The avenger is the spirit of God, the spirit of all flesh bodies, and he is after the "Man", because from the very beginning the Man has a ban on him. The Man is the "being" one, not the Adam man, and when he dies the ban on his body will be lifted.
Tues. Dec. 23, 2008
