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The Trees Like many Physicists who are looking for the one answer that addresses all physics properties, I too try to make sense of things. Where the Scientist tries to quantify how everything works together, I try to understand the relationship between man and God. This one particular document is of my own creation. I do not pass it off as factual, though much of it is; it is from my wandering mind. Nevertheless it makes sense to me. God is in His Kingdom. There is a lot I’m not aware of or able to comprehend. Starting with God, we sometimes call Him a Trinity. Usually we refer to God in the masculine gender, as in Father or Son. This is how He represents Himself to us. Before time or His Kingdom or anything else, God existed. There was only One, so why have gender? We know God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit. They are three totally different beings. The Father seems to be the leader, and Jesus followed His commands. The Father is the one who has set the standard of Righteousness that Jesus fulfilled, and Jesus redefines some of God’s laws and says He is Lord over them. The Father is the one who was satisfied with His Son’s sacrifice. The Old Testament said God created and in the New Testament Jesus was credited for creation. God goes by many names in the Old and New Testaments; He also has many different attributes. God is all powerful, yet Jesus was given power. Jesus said if you had Seen Him, you would see the Father. We may talk directly to the Father, but the Holy Spirit intercedes for us because of Jesus. God let us know that He always was; logic would seem to say that everything else had a point of creation. We were created, and so was the Universe. How about God’s Kingdom? We know it wasn’t finished 2,000 years ago, because Jesus said He was going to prepare it for us. What does all this mean? We don’t have a clue what reality really is. As Christians, we are just jazzed to be invited to the party. I can almost, maybe slightly, well not really, imagine God in His Kingdom. Being an Amenning God, that is having absolute faith and power, He says and it is. As in when He spoke our Universe into existence. I would guess that He had spoken His Kingdom into being, but it was still under construction when Jesus was here. Just a side note, time is something we live in. God of course was before time, there is no 186,282.4 mps speed limit for Him. He is still not ruled by time. So God is in His Kingdom, and what at this point wouldn’t be part of it? And God says to Himselves, “…a wheel within a wheel with faces and wings
and sole of a calf' s foot and hands…”, and it is. Anything that God says is. And everything that is, is perfect. He creates many things; in fact everything that is, He created. Nothing breaks or wears out. Everything functions as it is suppose to. God is not surprised by any mishaps or anomalies. There are no deviations or departures from the normal behavior of His creation. There are no laws of Thermodynamics: 1. You can' t win. 2. You can' t break even. 3. You can' t quit the game. There are no Newtonian Physics or Quantum Mechanics. God creates at His whim, and it costs Him nothing. He creates and He uses no energy. God was all-powerful and He is still all-powerful; He did not exchange power for matter. He is adding to His Kingdom. There is no set amount of matter or energy that God can use. He dictates behavior and His creation follows, as though it were the typical way of things. God does not compromise nor hold back. His creations are complete and functioning. We can not appreciate the vastness or the finest details of this Universe, yet God put them there. His “craftsgodship” is flawless. So, God is in His Kingdom, yet how can the creation contain the Creator? And even more bizarre, is how the Creator can abide in me! And because God rules over all, what part of His Kingdom are we in? How can the Whole reside wholly in a little part of the Whole? And where did God dwell before He created anything? God says to Themselves, “I want to hear music”. We of course know that this normally would require vibrations, an intervening substance to travel through, and some sort of “time”. Same thing when God speaks. God creates a cherub covered in precious stones and gold with built-in tambourine and pipes. This cherub was in Eden, the garden of God, and he was beautiful and full of wisdom. And because of his beauty he corrupted his wisdom by trying to make himself equal with God. God creates light and darkness and calls it good. He then separates the waters above and below and further separates the water below so there is dry ground. Now God creates plants, and then He creates the sun and stars and the moon and calls it day four. God populates the water with living creatures and great monsters and birds. Then God made the beasts of the earth, bugs and mankind. He says it is good. God had created a garden in the east of Eden. God puts them in the garden and then He creates woman. Our grand understanding has nothing to do with the way God does things. First He makes light and a few days later He makes the source. I do not know when Eden was created or how long the cherub was there. God had told man not to eat of the tree of knowledge, and this cherub knew that.
In engineering, catastrophic failures sometimes happen, not because they weren’t planned for, but because small failures happened at the same time. In nature, it can be the same. A fire, one square mile, in a remote area may not even be noticed. A smaller fire in a densely populated region with poor fire service and congested roads could kill thousands. The garden catastrophe happened because God planned it that way. God, who created time, would know what was to happen. If by chance He couldn’t, then why not rewind time and set things right? God is the One who allowed Satan to be on earth with His newly created man. God created this angel with so much beauty and wisdom, that comparing himself to God did not appear, to him, to be totally unrealistic. God puts man in the garden and tells him to subdue it. Yet He puts in a tree that is not to be eaten. God walks with man at a preset time each day, allowing the fallen one to know when God is not around. So here is man; he has opportunity – God isn’t watching and the tree is easily accessible, motivation – Satan is prodding them on, and desire – to be like God. And, as if that wasn’t enough, they had a backup plan. God had put a tree in the garden that had no function; the Tree of Life. Before sin, there was no death and thus no reason to eat it. After sin, God wouldn’t allow its fruit to be eaten. In the New Testament, Jesus says if we know Him we know the Father, He also said He would send the Holy Spirit to teach us all things and to convict the world of sin. The Tree of Knowledge was a ploy; it could not give us the knowledge that would make us like God, and if we ate of it, we would die. Its role was to tempt us. I imagine Adam and Eve reasoning with each other. I do not know if they had seen Satan before he fell and I don’t know if God had warned them about his evil ways. Satan gave them the sales pitch, and now they wanted it. They knew God had said “Don’t”, but after listening to Satan they now thought that God was holding out on them. And, I’m sure that Satan represented himself as he saw himself; that is, equal to God. The fruit looked good. They probably mulled this dilemma over and over, rationalizing and thinking and pondering about it. They probably asked God about it, and He gave the same response as before, “Don’t eat it”, and not explaining His reasoning to their satisfaction. They knew what God said and they knew what they wanted. Adam figured out a solution. This again, is how I imagine things went. Adam thinks - It wasn’t that God minded man being like Him. The reason He didn’t want the fruit to be eaten is because it would kill. So, Eve would eat first. What if God had been mistaken about the death thing – like who had proven that it would cause death? Besides, Satan said they would not die. If she showed signs of dying,
Adam would run to the Tree of Life, get some of it’s fruit and give it to her, and she would live. Then, if the first two failed, he’d ask God to take her from his side again. The solution was foolproof. Eve eats and isn’t dead. Adam of course has to eat so he, too, can be divine. So, the first act of these two enlightened godlike beings is to hide their nakedness. When God speaks to them, they do the Keystone-Cop routine. When God asked, “Who told you that you were naked”, was it a rhetorical question? As far as I can tell, there were only two who knew; God and Satan. They get caught with their pants down and feign innocence, blaming others. Adam points his finger at God, blaming Him for giving “the woman” to him, and Eve points to Satan. God listens as if He had no idea of what had transpired. God assigns fault where it belongs, and then does the unthinkable. With billions of people on earth today, could God not keep an eye on two? Why didn’t God just erase this particular creation? I don’t know when the rest of the angels fell, but this seems to be a good place in time for it. I guess that Satan is telling the Angels about his victory over God’s creation and how he will change the way God is doing things. What God does is the opposite of what was expected. He puts into motion a plan that man can some day be reunited with his Creator. God indicates that Satan will be bruised in the head and God (Jesus) will be bruised in the heel. Satan probably had counted on mankind to reproduce, and knew that the offspring would not be righteous. God had created a self-perpetuating race of beings that was against Him; perfect fodder for Satan’s new kingdom. When God created mankind He made them in His image. Part of God’s image is power. God gave them rule over the Earth, including Eden, where Satan was. Part of God’s image He put in trees; the “Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil” and the “Tree Of Life”. Jesus said He was “…the Way and the Truth and the Life…”. Jesus could deliver where the trees couldn’t. It is interesting that God had already defined good and evil, but these “evils” didn’t apply to man till he ate the fruit. So God knew before He created man which things man would do that would displease Him. Angels chose having full understanding of God’s likes and dislikes. They had no fuzzy knowledge of God; they were in His Kingdom and on Earth. They knew. When Angels chose they were not deceived. They weighed all the options and made an informed choice. Man’s choice was due to a lack of faith that God meant what he said. His choice
was not based on information. He had two powers telling him how to choose. Man chose poorly. Angelic sin is unforgivable while man’s sin can be forgiven. Mankind is automatically born into sin. We have no choice about that, but we do have the choice of coming out from under that sin. Our redemption is by Jesus. God now willingly pays dearly to be able to redeem what was once His; that is, us. Where all His other creations cost Him nothing, man cost Him Jesus’ life. At first glance, it would seem that God would be furious with us. We screwed up His perfect Kingdom. The truth is, I had no control if I wanted to be born under sin or not. The setup seems to allow everyone to choose what he or she wants. Angels can be with God or not be with Him. Man can make the same choice, to be with God or not. Man fell because of 1) his lack of faith – he didn’t believe God, 2) his lack of love – he loved himself more than God and 3) he wouldn’t follow God’s leading. Eating of the forbidden fruit is the culmination of that lack of faith and love. Man is saved by faith, love and following God. Jesus took this same path. Why would God go through such an elaborate scheme? First, God knows the difference between created love, and a love where we eagerly follow. We are in an environment where we can please God, or believe that this cosmos is all that there is and no God exists. Second, God can now reap were He didn’t sow. Sinful man is not a product of God’s making. It may be a byproduct, but God did not create us as sinful. Jesus was tempted, and if He had failed, we would be dead. God set standards, and He Himself had to meet them, as do we. God can now reap attributes that had not been available to Him before, like anger, jealousy, being truly loved, pain, rejection, fear, death, sacrifice, loneliness and all types of feelings that He had not created. I think part of being made in His image is a desire to grow and experience new and exciting things. There were certain things that God could not create in which He wished to partake. A perfectly orderly existence where everything is supplied would get boring even to us after a few trillion years. As I stated this is a creation of my thoughts and thus not necessarily based on facts.
and sole of a calf' s foot and hands…”, and it is. Anything that God says is. And everything that is, is perfect. He creates many things; in fact everything that is, He created. Nothing breaks or wears out. Everything functions as it is suppose to. God is not surprised by any mishaps or anomalies. There are no deviations or departures from the normal behavior of His creation. There are no laws of Thermodynamics: 1. You can' t win. 2. You can' t break even. 3. You can' t quit the game. There are no Newtonian Physics or Quantum Mechanics. God creates at His whim, and it costs Him nothing. He creates and He uses no energy. God was all-powerful and He is still all-powerful; He did not exchange power for matter. He is adding to His Kingdom. There is no set amount of matter or energy that God can use. He dictates behavior and His creation follows, as though it were the typical way of things. God does not compromise nor hold back. His creations are complete and functioning. We can not appreciate the vastness or the finest details of this Universe, yet God put them there. His “craftsgodship” is flawless. So, God is in His Kingdom, yet how can the creation contain the Creator? And even more bizarre, is how the Creator can abide in me! And because God rules over all, what part of His Kingdom are we in? How can the Whole reside wholly in a little part of the Whole? And where did God dwell before He created anything? God says to Themselves, “I want to hear music”. We of course know that this normally would require vibrations, an intervening substance to travel through, and some sort of “time”. Same thing when God speaks. God creates a cherub covered in precious stones and gold with built-in tambourine and pipes. This cherub was in Eden, the garden of God, and he was beautiful and full of wisdom. And because of his beauty he corrupted his wisdom by trying to make himself equal with God. God creates light and darkness and calls it good. He then separates the waters above and below and further separates the water below so there is dry ground. Now God creates plants, and then He creates the sun and stars and the moon and calls it day four. God populates the water with living creatures and great monsters and birds. Then God made the beasts of the earth, bugs and mankind. He says it is good. God had created a garden in the east of Eden. God puts them in the garden and then He creates woman. Our grand understanding has nothing to do with the way God does things. First He makes light and a few days later He makes the source. I do not know when Eden was created or how long the cherub was there. God had told man not to eat of the tree of knowledge, and this cherub knew that.
In engineering, catastrophic failures sometimes happen, not because they weren’t planned for, but because small failures happened at the same time. In nature, it can be the same. A fire, one square mile, in a remote area may not even be noticed. A smaller fire in a densely populated region with poor fire service and congested roads could kill thousands. The garden catastrophe happened because God planned it that way. God, who created time, would know what was to happen. If by chance He couldn’t, then why not rewind time and set things right? God is the One who allowed Satan to be on earth with His newly created man. God created this angel with so much beauty and wisdom, that comparing himself to God did not appear, to him, to be totally unrealistic. God puts man in the garden and tells him to subdue it. Yet He puts in a tree that is not to be eaten. God walks with man at a preset time each day, allowing the fallen one to know when God is not around. So here is man; he has opportunity – God isn’t watching and the tree is easily accessible, motivation – Satan is prodding them on, and desire – to be like God. And, as if that wasn’t enough, they had a backup plan. God had put a tree in the garden that had no function; the Tree of Life. Before sin, there was no death and thus no reason to eat it. After sin, God wouldn’t allow its fruit to be eaten. In the New Testament, Jesus says if we know Him we know the Father, He also said He would send the Holy Spirit to teach us all things and to convict the world of sin. The Tree of Knowledge was a ploy; it could not give us the knowledge that would make us like God, and if we ate of it, we would die. Its role was to tempt us. I imagine Adam and Eve reasoning with each other. I do not know if they had seen Satan before he fell and I don’t know if God had warned them about his evil ways. Satan gave them the sales pitch, and now they wanted it. They knew God had said “Don’t”, but after listening to Satan they now thought that God was holding out on them. And, I’m sure that Satan represented himself as he saw himself; that is, equal to God. The fruit looked good. They probably mulled this dilemma over and over, rationalizing and thinking and pondering about it. They probably asked God about it, and He gave the same response as before, “Don’t eat it”, and not explaining His reasoning to their satisfaction. They knew what God said and they knew what they wanted. Adam figured out a solution. This again, is how I imagine things went. Adam thinks - It wasn’t that God minded man being like Him. The reason He didn’t want the fruit to be eaten is because it would kill. So, Eve would eat first. What if God had been mistaken about the death thing – like who had proven that it would cause death? Besides, Satan said they would not die. If she showed signs of dying,
Adam would run to the Tree of Life, get some of it’s fruit and give it to her, and she would live. Then, if the first two failed, he’d ask God to take her from his side again. The solution was foolproof. Eve eats and isn’t dead. Adam of course has to eat so he, too, can be divine. So, the first act of these two enlightened godlike beings is to hide their nakedness. When God speaks to them, they do the Keystone-Cop routine. When God asked, “Who told you that you were naked”, was it a rhetorical question? As far as I can tell, there were only two who knew; God and Satan. They get caught with their pants down and feign innocence, blaming others. Adam points his finger at God, blaming Him for giving “the woman” to him, and Eve points to Satan. God listens as if He had no idea of what had transpired. God assigns fault where it belongs, and then does the unthinkable. With billions of people on earth today, could God not keep an eye on two? Why didn’t God just erase this particular creation? I don’t know when the rest of the angels fell, but this seems to be a good place in time for it. I guess that Satan is telling the Angels about his victory over God’s creation and how he will change the way God is doing things. What God does is the opposite of what was expected. He puts into motion a plan that man can some day be reunited with his Creator. God indicates that Satan will be bruised in the head and God (Jesus) will be bruised in the heel. Satan probably had counted on mankind to reproduce, and knew that the offspring would not be righteous. God had created a self-perpetuating race of beings that was against Him; perfect fodder for Satan’s new kingdom. When God created mankind He made them in His image. Part of God’s image is power. God gave them rule over the Earth, including Eden, where Satan was. Part of God’s image He put in trees; the “Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil” and the “Tree Of Life”. Jesus said He was “…the Way and the Truth and the Life…”. Jesus could deliver where the trees couldn’t. It is interesting that God had already defined good and evil, but these “evils” didn’t apply to man till he ate the fruit. So God knew before He created man which things man would do that would displease Him. Angels chose having full understanding of God’s likes and dislikes. They had no fuzzy knowledge of God; they were in His Kingdom and on Earth. They knew. When Angels chose they were not deceived. They weighed all the options and made an informed choice. Man’s choice was due to a lack of faith that God meant what he said. His choice
was not based on information. He had two powers telling him how to choose. Man chose poorly. Angelic sin is unforgivable while man’s sin can be forgiven. Mankind is automatically born into sin. We have no choice about that, but we do have the choice of coming out from under that sin. Our redemption is by Jesus. God now willingly pays dearly to be able to redeem what was once His; that is, us. Where all His other creations cost Him nothing, man cost Him Jesus’ life. At first glance, it would seem that God would be furious with us. We screwed up His perfect Kingdom. The truth is, I had no control if I wanted to be born under sin or not. The setup seems to allow everyone to choose what he or she wants. Angels can be with God or not be with Him. Man can make the same choice, to be with God or not. Man fell because of 1) his lack of faith – he didn’t believe God, 2) his lack of love – he loved himself more than God and 3) he wouldn’t follow God’s leading. Eating of the forbidden fruit is the culmination of that lack of faith and love. Man is saved by faith, love and following God. Jesus took this same path. Why would God go through such an elaborate scheme? First, God knows the difference between created love, and a love where we eagerly follow. We are in an environment where we can please God, or believe that this cosmos is all that there is and no God exists. Second, God can now reap were He didn’t sow. Sinful man is not a product of God’s making. It may be a byproduct, but God did not create us as sinful. Jesus was tempted, and if He had failed, we would be dead. God set standards, and He Himself had to meet them, as do we. God can now reap attributes that had not been available to Him before, like anger, jealousy, being truly loved, pain, rejection, fear, death, sacrifice, loneliness and all types of feelings that He had not created. I think part of being made in His image is a desire to grow and experience new and exciting things. There were certain things that God could not create in which He wished to partake. A perfectly orderly existence where everything is supplied would get boring even to us after a few trillion years. As I stated this is a creation of my thoughts and thus not necessarily based on facts.
