the opening scene between God and humans,
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We’re not finished with the above scene, there are other basic points to glean so as to gather more comprehension. This is the opening scene between God and humans, and we’re hanging on each word so we don’t miss the slightest implication, the smallest clue that can help us unlock where the narrative is going and its ultimate climax.
More disclosures from the Garden of Eden scene:
God is in command
He makes the rules
He gives the instruction
Man is the recipient of this instruction
Man receives the rules
Man has the choice to apply the rules or not
There’s no coercion from God… just clear instruction—God is not a ‘bully’
Man has free choice to follow or to not follow that instruction
Let’s come down to earth and put government and leadership, any governing body of any organization in the driver’s seat, and apply these same eight principles.
This ‘organization which oversees’, whatever form it might take—top down, collegiate, bottom up—is necessary to establish the orderly conditions that bring ‘peace’. Peace is not the cause of ‘organization’ and ‘order’, peace does not precede union and stability; it’s the other way round. Organization and order are mainstay reasons for ‘peace’. Orderliness leads to harmony. There is no anarchy in the Garden of Eden, for example.
Organization has a number of clear-cut stages, which we’ll see below. Where these elements are absent, the result is the opposite of peace: chaos. (Of course, some chaos creates drama, as we’ll see later on!)
Organization of the Leadership – Chain of Command – Hierarchy (of the garden of Eden scene)
God is in command
God decides what to do
Man is / can be the follower… not the leader
This hierarchy is set… man can do and say whatever he likes… but in the script of our ‘play’ God is in charge
Existence of Rules
There are rules
The Supreme Being who wrote the play makes the rules
These rules are for the benefit of man and woman just like keeping our hand out of fire is beneficial to us
Those rules are inexorable, in effect, always. If man follows them, there can be short and long-term benefits, if man breaks them there can be short and long term consequences.
Inexorable includes the notion that the rules are there whether man and woman know them or not. And the consequences of following or not following those rules occur whether man and woman are aware of them or not. Galacti pretends to be hungry, picks a mushroom in the garden and eats it, then shortly thereafter mimics sickness and pain. Even he isn’t sure if the mushroom species is poisonous, but by eating it, he accepts the consequences. He refrains from a ‘stage death’ to make his point: he may have eased his hunger in the short term, but he could have died.
Responsibilities and Consequences for God (we’re simply drawing conclusions from this scene)
Establishing rules
Correct rules that can be applied by Man
Making those rules known and teaching them
Establishing the consequences of following or disobeying those rules : In this scene short and long term Life and Death
Responsibilities and Consequences for Man
A freely made decision to be open to and listen to God’s instruction
A freely made decision to apply or not apply that instruction
A realization that man accepts the consequences of his decisions: short and long term life or death
Hierarchy, Rules, Responsibilities, Consequences, Life, Death. We haven’t defined parameters of what they specifically are. Right now, we’re keeping you in suspense.
The next important thing to remember is that these four concepts—Organization, Rules, Responsibilities and Consequences of God and man—are part of the central point of this book. Each one has the ‘why, how, when, where, who’ to be looked into and it isn’t what you’ve heard before. We shall expand them and go into details.
For now we’re still setting the stage. Here comes the villain.
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