In the omniscience of the Eternal Godhead, every human spirit has proceeded from the mind of God the Father through the matrix of corporeal flesh, into the dimension of time (greek>chronos), fully being made aware of the knowledge of both good and evil. Herein lies the inchoate problem, human spirits in their inceptive existential state (the creative Genesis account), were not designed to facilitate the knowledge of good nor evil. This principle is to be fully reckoned with because the Eternal Godhead has revealed in holy sacred writ (the Bible) that its relationship with mankind is to be one of a “Theocratic” dynamic and form of governing; with no other sanctions being authorized for any other form of government in the nascent designation (Garden of Eden). According to the scriptures, it was and is the will of human nature insisting upon (in Bibliology this is referred to as the “hardening of the human heart or spirit) other forms of rule and governing outside of the Theocratic Sovereign Rule of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth that gave prescient revelation to mankind in the Eternal Godhead allowing these unsanctioned entities to govern. This principle is clearly demonstrated when the Prophet Samuel attests: “Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,- And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.- But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.- And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.- According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.- Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them”. In original designation, mankind was to be open in spirit (“nakedness” is the symbol for this concept in the Edenic manifestation) before the Lord God of Heaven and Earth (Creator) with no reservations in the dimensions of their relationship. In theology this concept is referred to by the symbol of “Innocence” because mankind is in the image of the Eternal Godhead and has not yet received command nor temptation. Freedom of choice is established by the presence of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the command from the Lord to not eat of its fruit. Syllogistic reasoning would conclude that at least two points of reference must be presented to establish freedom of choice and freedom of choice must be established in order that Divine Love may be manifested. The deathly amalgamation of humanism and satanism (in its inceptive manifestation) appears in the Edenic conversation between Eve and satan culminating with the violation of “Divine Command”. It is the violating of “Divine Command” (greek>apodictic) to not partake of the knowledge of good and evil by the deathly amalgamation of humanism and satanism (Eve, satan, and subsequently Adam) that causes the “Loss of Innocence” and leads to the closed spirit of shame between mankind and the Eternal Godhead which marks the symbols of the “Fall of Mankind” and the “Fallen Human Nature”. Mankind now enters the place of estrangement (closed spirit of shame) from the Eternal Godhead because they have freely chosen to violate “Divine Command” and are now purged from the “Edenic Paradise” which brings forth the symbol of their “Lost Reality”. Lost Reality is the symbol that denotes mankind’s powerless nature to live in a holy relationship with the Eternal Godhead as originally designed (teleology) or in other words, mankind can no longer live within the confines of “Divine Command” freely by his own choice. Our “Fallen Nature” will always freely choose to live outside these confines, indefinitely. The knowledge of good and evil has darkened (the effect of humanism) and even blinded (the effect of satanism) the minds of mankind to the revelation of “Holiness” in “Divine Love” as the “New Reality” in Christ. For this reason the Eternal Godhead has established “Grace as an Active Power” to deliver mankind into the “New Reality” of living within the confines of a holy relationship with “Divine Presence” and “Divine Command”. The “In Spite Of” power within Grace allows the Eternal Godhead to confer within the human spirit the power to live holy based upon the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ as the “Slain Lamb” which conquers (for all time) the place of estrangement or the closed spirit of shame. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:- Not of works, lest any man should boast”. (Another Oil Point from Theology Nation)
Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox