Perhaps the first
sin’s manifestation was in the “disobedience” but there was a root deeper in
the consciousness of the first parents that grew into the weed of their unholy
act – their doing other than what they were commanded not to do.
Let’s take the
famous biblical scenario to the point or the moment immediately before Eve
reached for the fruit of the tree? Freeze preter-time and consider the
following assumptions up to that point:
1.
Adam
and Eve lived and breathed under the protection of preternatural grace. They
could not get sick. They would for all intents an purposes not die in the sense
that we know bodily death in our post Eden world.
2.
Adam and Eve were graced with superior knowledge about the world
around them.
3.
They
were subject matter experts.
4.
Adam
and Eve were not naive in an ordinary sense.
5. They could not be easily beguiled.
6.
For such a
highly functioning and preter-protected beings to be ‘beguiled,’ they had to be
worn down internally.
7.
Between the
time of their creation and the first sin might have been a relatively long
period of time; perhaps weeks, months or years.
So in this interval between
creation and the sin are the following possible conclusory statements:
1. In the
meantime, from creation until the sin, like a virus, the antagonist works at
the root level; slowly eroding precious conscience until finally, there was a
breach in their identification as creation allowing a mirage of becoming
creator equivalents within the focused stage of the drama at hand.
2. They were so busy minding the garden outside
them that they were not aware of the steady percolation of poison within their
conscience and consciousness.
3. Their day to day
relationship with God was to be able to “walk” with him in the afternoons.
4. God’s persona was
being slowly minimized in their minds as someone who would never hurt them or
that there were no consequences to breaching the command.
5. And they did
not die…so they conclude God was not being honest with them. So they continued
to eat more and enjoyed this new found freedom much the same way as a person
feels jumping off a cliff with a parachute that will malfunction.
6. The edge of
protection they enjoyed was being worn away from the inside leading to the
outer manifestation.
7. They were
naked to themselves and their new found pleasure though temporarily tasty and exhilarating
would end up in a hangover of cosmic proportions.
8. At the tip of
the root of the sin was an inner beguilement of atomic proportions that would
grow because of inner choices not to confer or relate the gift of the will to
its source – to God.
9. When we think
we own our will freely, we are in error because “free will” is offered to us to
care for as it were a garden of its own. We do not own our wills and therefore,
we do not own ourselves.
10. f we come to
the conclusion that we own ourselves; that it is “my” right; it is “my”
freedom; it is “my body” – then we become what we abhor the most – slaves and
imprisoned within the casket of ego that awakes like a vampire sucking the life
out of those around us.
11. We do not own
ourselves. We are stewards of ourselves, internal and external.
12. When we fail
to tend the garden of the soul, we will be beguiled no matter how intelligent
we think we are.
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