Season 3 Podcast 234, "What is Real, Pt 4, Ariel B, The Fall of Man 1, Assumptions 16-26"
“What is Real, Pt 4, Ariel B The Fall of Man 1 Assumptions 16-26
The center of Christianity is Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, the creator, the Savior and Redeemer of the entire world. He came in the meridian of time suggesting that the time from Adam to Christ is about 4000 years and the time from Christ to the end of the world is about 4000 years. If we take that literally, it means that the period of time of man from the fall to the end of the world is about 8 thousand years. We live in the year 2022 slightly over two thousand years after Christ. Christians anticipate the Second Coming of Christ where the wicked will be destroyed, and Christ will reign for a thousand years. No one knows the day nor the hour and speculation is fruitless; nevertheless, the signs of the times given by John the Revelator lead us to believe that we live in the last days before the Second Coming.
In Holy Scriptures we have only a few chapters telling the story of creation and the Garden of Eden. From then on, the scriptures teach us how to live in a fallen world. It is necessary in any treatise dealing with the plan of salvation and the primary assumptions of Christianity that the fall has a primary part. For that reason, we turn to Chapter 3 of Genesis.
1 Now the serpent was more subtil 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?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 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.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Until Satan entered the garden neither Adam nor Eve considered eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. When Satan said ye shall not surely die, he was correct if by surely, he meant you won’t die instantly. The Lord said in the day you eat you will die. Adam lived almost a thousand years after the fall which is a day unto the Lord as taught by Peter. God planted two trees in the garden of Eden: the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He gave Adam and Eve the power to choose for themselves. The nature of knowledge of good and evil was in the fact that their eyes were opened meaning they would be able to discern good from evil. Knowledge of good and evil was not in the fruit itself but in the experience of the fall.
From the above we can draw the following 6 assumptions:
16. For agency to exist first, we must have knowledge of good and evil.
17. For agency to exist second, we must be enticed by Satan to do evil and by Christ to do good.
18. For agency to exist, third we must have choices between good and evil.
19. Cunning Satan uses half-truths to deceive us.
20. For knowledge of good and evil we must have experience.
21. Knowledge of good and evil is an attribute of God, and we can only be as the Gods if we can discern between good and evil.
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