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Summary of Being Human
Past/Present/Future
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Part One
- Adam
was naked (an imperfect yet sincere human) and not ashamed to be so.
- Adam
was told he needed to be morally perfect to be acceptable as a son
of God.
- Adam
believed this lie and grasped at being more than human, thereby
rejecting his humanity.
- Adam
was now ashamed of being an imperfect human, although God was not.
- Adam
covered his true self up and became someone else.
He became less than human in the process.
- Adam
passed on this shame to his children. Dysfunction was seen
immediately through murder in the family. Society became
dysfunctional overall.
- This
unhealthy shame has caused unconscious beliefs to taint our thoughts
and actions. This has
been termed mysteriously, “human nature”.
Part Two
- Our
Parent nevertheless continued to work with His children within their
false perception of reality. It
was a self-imposed reality of self-value defined by moral perfection
and performance.
- God
called Abraham out of this false reality and this wrong belief
system, into one of faith.
- God
gave the descendants of Abraham through Isaac, the promise of a new
life on earth when faith would be the foundation of life once again.
Promises passed on through election (grace not works).
- God
formed a nation for himself from this family and gave them the most
perfect self-value by performance law possible, complete with a
built-in forgiveness mechanism.
- Even
this most perfect law could not turn a specially selected nation
from its sins. This old
covenant proved that a system of justification through moral
perfection could not lead to the righteousness of God.
Part Three
- The
second Adam, Messiah Jesus, was told he needed to be something more
than he was to be acceptable as a son of God.
- The
second Adam did not believe this lie, and embraced his imperfect yet
sincere humanity.
- The
second Adam stayed aware of who he was and where he came from…did
not hide as the first Adam did.
- Subsequently,
the second Adam did not sin, but was the first fully alive human
being in creation.
- He
has provided the example that it is by the grace of God alone by
which we can live life to the full as intended…as sons of
God…complete human beings.
- The
spirit of antichrist (saying that Jesus has not come as
flesh...human) has been working to take away the power of healing
and salvation found within the good news of the gospel, by making
Jesus out to be a pre-existent God member. That is why the
trinity doctrine, though impossible to understand, has been so
successfully taught in the church called by Christ's name. It
is also why the gospel of the future kingdom of God on earth has
been almost extinguished during the past 2,000 years.
Part Four
- Jesus,
the second Adam, was raised from dead, having qualified through this
faith to sit at the right hand of his Father, until he returns to
usher in the Kingdom of God on earth.
- All
men will be given the opportunity to accept their humanity through
faith and trust in their Father, as exemplified by Jesus.
- Those
who do will live forever, beyond the millennium, and into the new
heavens and new earth.
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