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BACK TO THE USURPER IN HEAVEN, THE SOURCE OF ALL THE SUFFERING, AS YOU SAY – WHAT WAS HIS PROBLEM?

His pride caused him to loose sight of the principle that still governs the success or failure of every being in the universe – submission to authority.²⁴  To make matters worse, he went on to infect some of his closest angelic charges with the rebellion.  They, in turn, infected others.  It was like a virus run amok.  I had to clean house.

YOU TALK LIKE YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT SCENE.  DON’T YOU CONTROL EVERYTHING?

I’m in charge, but every being – angelic or human, due to his or her inherently high order – is responsible for his or her own attitudes and actions.²⁵  Of course, it’s all based on a level of understanding.  One is responsible only for what one knows.  So, we’re back to the robot question.  Delegating responsibility is a part of my control function.

LET’S GO BACK TO EDEN.  WHY DID THINGS GO SO BADLY AFTER THE FIRST PARENTS WERE DECEIVED?

To be able to fully grasp the gravity of that situation, one must have a look at how things were before what is now commonly called “The Fall.”  When we created the first Adam in our image, he got a multi-dose of life, if you will.  “Lives” is how it now best translates from the original autographs.  I breathed more than one life into the first Adam when he became a living being of enormous potential.²⁶   He received a biological life not so unlike that of mere animals, and he was given a personality, commonly called the soul.  It was fledgling at first, but highly capable of development.  In our final stroke, I breathed my very life into him.  In seed form, of course.  That allowed for spirit-level interaction, designed to fast-track his development.²⁷

24 “. . . Because your heart is lifted up, and you say, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods . . .’ yet (being) not a god . . . you set your heart as the heart of a god. . . . By your great wisdom . . . you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches. . . . Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, that they might gaze at you” (Ezekiel 28:2b, 17).

25 “. . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12b, 13).

26 “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’” (Genesis 1:26a) . . . “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life(s); and man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7).  ([1 life] + [1 life] + [1 life] = 3 life(s) is how the Hebrew word used best translates.)

27 “Now may the God of peace sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23).  “For the Word of God is . . . piercing even to the division of soul and spirit . . .” (Hebrews 4:12a).