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Super excited to announce that our #F1000 collection on #plasticpollution in #terrestrial systems is now open for submissions:
👉 https://f1000research.com/collections/plasticterrestrialsystems/about-this-collection
Great team effort with @Microplastic_monica, @wincowger, @jasonhdavison, and Grace Pooley Deans 🙏
#microplastics #soil #openaccess #openscience #opendata @plasticpollution @Plastiverse @openspecy
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Spent yesterday out in the field helping Quinn Zacharias prepare for their big enhanced weathering field trials! Soon, they'll amend the soils with basalt powder, which will (hopefully!) remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
The project is unique, because they will apply basalt to a complete watershed. Plus the catchment is continuously monitored and has ~60 years of baseline data! Can't wait for their results! 🤓
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Spent yesterday out in the field helping Quinn Zacharias prepare for their big enhanced weathering field trials! Soon, they'll amend the soils with basalt powder, which will (hopefully!) remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
The project is unique, because they will apply basalt to a complete watershed. Plus the catchment is continuously monitored and has ~60 years of baseline data! Can't wait for their results! 🤓
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How do #cellcycle oscillators generate exactly two #meiotic divisions for production of haploid #gametes?
Wolfgang Zachariae and colleagues show that #Spo13/#MEIKIN and #Cdc5/#Plk1 cooperate to prevent premature APC/C-#Ama1 activation after #meiosis I
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Today's pick: The Angel appears to Zacharias (1486-1490) - Domenico Ghirlandaio. #art #DomenicoGhirlandaio #TornabuoniChapel #Gabriel #Zacharias
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Weekly reminder about the slavery software for #HumanRightsAbuse used by IA's & the PDs & the coordinated #GangStalkers at #Meta & ignored by #CitizenLab, #EFF & the #ACLU also used in conjunction with domestic physical nightly torture sessions of tap, tap, tap, tap, tap borrowed from Chinese Torture techniques.
Whitelisted felons like homeless #ZachariahCrocker & child groomer #AprilPage have been documented using this software at Meta for financial crimes, physical break INS & coordinated harassment over 19+yrs now using fake accounts claiming to be their targets that they control as has been documented on camera during the pandemic.
They were also documented stealing #USPS mail ( open cases with the US Postmaster General ) as well as #FedEx & local Police Department who did nothing even with video evidence of the theft.
Home invasion case reported & covered up in case #21-144-0690 w/ #SJPD & get my RealID one month before it expired for fraud usage also & financial crimes on #Meta & Google Chat coordinated by Zachariah Crocker & April Page from Cisco Systems from 04/2020 - 11/2020 while I worked for #CiscoSystems HQ in Milpitas, CA. #AprilPage was my managers manager. She shared the same landlord as I did I found out, from their #BankOfAmerica monthly transactions to #ZhiZhang & #RenWaiYanZhang whom they coordinated the break INS with.
Multiple open cases with multiple agencies. Zero resolution.
#GammaGroup's #FinFisher #FinSpy #Finsky
#StateSponsoredMalware™ #ForcedMDM #SlaverySoftware #RTDNA #news #infosec
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I guess next steps when you review HR Policy on harassment and your manager and managers manager ( director level ) didn't follow HR Policy on harassment and tried to gaslight HR and got caught the next steps are pretty much injury lawyer, yeah?
#lawfedi #fedilaw #harassment #HighTech #hrpolicies #cointelpro #COPSprogram #investigations #Meta #FacebookFakeAccount #CiscoSystems #ZachariahCrocker #AprilPage #AmolKarole #siliconvalley ⚖️👨⚖️👩⚖️⚖️👨⚖️👩⚖️👀👀
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CW: 🔎 #Meta #Facebook #WeChat scammers #CiscoSystems #SJPD #COINTELPRO #ZachariahCrocker #ZhiZhang #RenWaiYanZhang #AprilPage 🔍
Keep an eye out in the #BayArea for this #scammer named #ZachariahCrocker #ZombZack@Gmail.Com who is an #IdentityThief from #Meta's #Facebook who on camera confessed to 18+yrs of harassment & being in #COINTELPRO
His girlfriend , April Page from Cisco Systems is a next door neighbour from Florida's Bay Area in the 1970's who rented from my previous landlord #ZhiZhang & #RenWaiYanZhang paid through #BankOfAmerica monthly rent and used #WeChat to inform on when people leave so her girlfriend could break in. She use to be a neighbor in Florida from 1975 named #AprilPage, one of three sisters from Florida's Bay Area, who was a director at #CiscoSystems in the 2020's.
SJPD.ORG Case #21-144-0690
#ZachariahCrocker #Meta #Facebook scammer doxxer & thief
They used #GammaGroup's #FinFisher #FinSpy #Finsky to try and cover this all up also since 2005.
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This morning I joined a broad coalition of government, business, education, and philanthropic leaders to speak about the VCCF’s recently established Neighbors Support Fund. The common thread among all speakers was that, in the words of moderator Celina Zacarias, the measure of a civilized society is how well it cares for its most vulnerable residents. I’m so proud of my colleagues and staff for setting up the first municipal contribution to this very important fund.
To learn more about and contribute to the fund, please visit vccf.org/neighbors-support-fund
#immigrant #immigration #community #economicdevelopment #civilrights #dotherightthing #thousandoaks #conejovalley #venturacounty #vccf #tocc
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The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #5 Temptation, assault and curse
After the choice Adam and Eve made to go against the Will of God, eating of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, God came to deal with three parties in the fall of mankind: Adam, Eve and the serpent. An alleged fourth – the devil – is not mentioned in Genesis narrative. This for the simple reason the symbolic tempter (satan), the serpent, or the evil thoughts in Eve’s mind are the evil itself.
Book of Genesis, Fall of Man. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The most common presentation of Adam and Eve does not reflect clearly enough their theological significance, at least as seen in the New Testament. Too many people forget where the trouble started and do not come to see the essence of our suffering today being the cause of man its own choice. Eve decided herself, by her own choice to go against the wishes of God. She herself wanted to be like God. The apostle Paul, being a Jewish scholar knew very well the problem of evil and suffering. For him it was also clear what choice Adam and Eve had made and why.
For Paul the wrath on mankind was caused by the anger of God (Romans 5:9) It does not have to mean we are enemies of God, but Eve her action showed God how man doubted His position. For the opposing attitude of Eve God reckoned against the sinner. In the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis, we hear God giving a first commandment: not eating of the fruit of the tree of conscience (the Tree of knowledge of good and evil). He is aware that they could see death reigning in the world form Adam’s time to the time of Moses (Knox).
Romans 5: 14 1But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over 2them also that sinned not after the like 3manner of the transgression of Adam, 4which was the figure of him that was to come.
In his letter to the Romans we get to hear that Adam foreshadows another person who had to come. The first Adam or the first man, corresponds in some degree to the man who was to come, and whose birth 2020 years ago we remember this year. That man being born was a gift to mankind, from God, which more powerfully affected mankind.
Romans 5: 15 1But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of 2that one, many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Adam and Eve committed an offence on which God had to react. He could directly destroy them and start all over again by creating some new living beings in his likeness which would keep to His commandment. Moreover, the boon of God exceeds the fruit of Adam and Eve’s sin. On that contrast between the gift and the results of that one sin, we shall come back in later chapters.
By their act, going against God’s Will, and by wanting to be like God, their Maker gave them the opportunity to show how much they themselves could make of it all. God’s right to govern was doubted, so know they could come to govern themselves and could come to make something of the world. Because all the children of Adam and Eve came after their choice of adversary they all fell under the spell or curse God came to bring over them. Adam and Eve after eating of the Tree of knowledge came to know the difference between good and evil and became weaker than before, because they now had knowledge. We can not escape the relationship from the first human beings. For just because of their relation to Adam and Eve all men fall under the spell of God and have to bear the consequences of that rebellion of the first carnal man. Being the descendants of Adam and Eve we all became members of a sinful race and we all shall have to face death.
1 Corinthians 15: 21 1For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 1made alive.In the letter to the Corinthians we are also told there is a solution. In those Greek Writings we find another confirmation of the same consequent: for Christ is to be considered as opposite to Adam, that as from one man Adam, sin came over all, so from one man Christ, life comes unto all: that is to say, that all the faithful, as they die, because by nature they were born of Adam, so because in Christ they are made the children of God by grace, they are quickened and restored to life by him. {annotation of the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition}
The way the apostle Paul looks at the 1° and the 2° Adam places the Adam-story within a royal context, because the essence of the matter were Adam and Eve impeaching the Divine Creator. Them to query God His Most High position, is the biggest issue. This way a battle over kingship and its relation to the universe was initiated. The position of the one sent from God as a solution is too often missed by the majority of people, even by those who call themselves Christian.
In the Garden of Eden sin entered in the world of man. In a royal garden or orchard Jeshua (Jesus Christ) accepted the fact he must follow not his will but the Will of the Most High God, and should go to the stake. (Matthew 26:36-46)
In the Holy Scriptures a garden is used to express joy, peace and satisfaction.
Adam and Eve by Peter Paul Rubens (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Jeremiah 31: 12 Therefore they shall come, and rejoice in the height of Zion, and shall run to the bountifulness
of the Lord, even for the 1wheat and for the wine, and for the oil, and for the increase of sheep and bullocks: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall have no more sorrow.Adam and Eve had no sorrow in the Garden of Eden. They had everything they needed. But God did wanted to teach them a lesson and did not want them in His Garden any more. Since Adam listened to his wife and ate from the tree whose fruit Jehovah God commanded him not to eat, the ground is cursed because of him. So his deed became the cause of the earth coming in problems by man. It is often by the wrong actions of men that something bad happens in the world, for example mudslides because men took away all the trees.
All our life now we will have to struggle to scratch a living from it. God told man that it will grow thorns and thistles for us, though man will eat of its grains. This time not for nothing any more, like it was in the Royal Garden. From then onwards man had to make his own garden and work with his own hands for it. By the sweat of our brow, will we have food to eat until we die, i.e. return to the ground from which man were made. Because we shall have to be reminded that we were made from dust, and to dust we will return.
But woman certainly could not escape. For him and her there was first no pain, but knowing now good and bad they also came to know pain and sorrow. The pain of woman’s pregnancy was going to be sharpened, and in pain she will give birth. She still was going to be able to give children, but concerning having control over things it would be more difficult. God warned her that though she still will desire to control her husband, it will be him who is going to rule over her.Genesis 3: 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy 1sorrows, and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thy desire shall be subject to thine husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return.
20 (And the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living)
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God 1make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, 1Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand, and 2take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the earth, whence he was taken.
24 Thus he cast out the man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sword shaken, to keep the way of the tree of life.Adam, Eve, but also we should see that the transgression of God’s commandment was the cause that both mankind and all other creatures were subject to the curse God spoke in that Kingdom of God, the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, fell from the estate of integrity in which God had created them and now had to build their own kingdom (a kingdom of man) in their own world.
Temptation was the occasion; it was not the cause. To be subjected to temptation is not sinful for the tempted. Embrace and acquiescence constitute sin, i.e. going in against the Will of God.
Eve succumbed to the ideas in her head. Her heart wanted to have so much as God. She herself made the choice to take the fruit and to eat it. She came to the point of overt disobedience to the divine prohibition. Adam trusted his partner and with her in the adventure, hoping also to get the knowledge of good and evil and wanting to become wise (Genesis 3:6 ASV)The tempter had gained the trust of the first human beings. Eve had accepted as true what was a blasphemous assault upon the veracity of Good and came to regard the tree as desirable in the direction that contravened the divine prohibition. Eve served herself as carnal creature rather than the Divine Creator.
The mannin her failure to recoil with revulsion from the temptation and the idea that she would not die (Genesis 3:4) is evidence that defection had already taken place and that she exemplified the invariable psychology of sin that overt action proceeds from the inward disposition of heart.
Proverbs 23: 7 For as though he thought it in his heart: so will he say unto thee, Eat and drink: but his heart is not
with thee.Man loves to give the fault of their wrong doing to others or say it is not from them. But In the Messianic Scriptures the sent one from God clearly warns man that there is nothing outside man. Summoning the multitude rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ) addressed the crowd close to him and told them that we should worry about what comes out of man. It is that what is inside and comes outside that pollutes or defiles man. It is from inside, out of man’s heart that come evil thoughts and actions, like self-seeking, pride, jealousy or envying, slander, malice, double-dealing, lying, deceiving, misleading, betraying, sexual vice, adultery, fornication, theft or stealing, wickedness, murder, all things that make a person unclean.
Mark 7: 21 For from within, even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.We may not be mistaken, it is all from within ourselves. The satan or adversary comes from our inner thoughts which we allow to go wrong and where we give in. We can choose not to follow certain ideas, but when we chose to follow the wrong path then we sin. There may be manyfold temptation but it is how we react on them.Whenever you find yourself surrounded by various temptations do know that it all depends on your choice and on your faith which shall demand action (works of faith), leading to steadfastness, developing endurance. But to withstand such temptation man shall need now the courage to choose the right path and let patience finish its work that you may become fully developed and perfectly equipped, lacking in nothing or in no respect deficient. So when you are drawn away, enticed and baited by your own evil desire, like Eve was, let yourself not be beguiled and allured by your own evil desire and enticed by a bait. Remember that when passion or desire conceives and gives birth to sin, than when the bad act or sin runs its course and get fully matured it shall give birth to death. We may not be mislead and make no mistake about this.
James 1: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence, and is enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth 1sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 1Err not my dear brethren.+
* Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition
Preceding articles
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #4 The Fall
Jesus begotten Son of God #10 Coming down spirit or flesh seed of Eve
Sayings of Jesus, what to believe and being or not of the devil
Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
A book of life and a man born more than two thousand years ago
When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #6 Curse and solution
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Additional reading
- Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
- A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
- First mention of a solution against death 1 To divine, serpent, opposition, satan and adversary
- First mention of a solution against death 2 Harm or no harm and naked truth
- First mention of a solution against death 3 Tempter Satan and man’s problems
- First mention of a solution against death 4 A seed for mankind
- First mention of a solution against death 5 Evil its law of death
- Necessity of a revelation of creation 1 Works of God and works of man
- A promise given in the Garden of Eden
- Set free from any form of mental torment or self-condemnation
- No curtain placed over tomorrow
- Around pre-existence of Christ
- Satan the evil within
- Additional comments to the 3rd Letter to the Romans
- Luther’s misunderstanding
- Solution for Willing hearts filled with gifts
- Redemption #2 Biblical solution
- When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
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Further reading of interest
- Images of God 1: Big and Close
- Genesis 3
- Day 7: Adam and Eve’s Relationship
- Creation and The Fall – A Dramatic Reading
- Did He Really Say That?
- What Happened in the Garden… Doesn’t Stay in the Garden
- There’s a Serpent in Your Bible.
- When Everything Went to Smash
- What Satan Offered Adam And Eve…
- Me-Centered More
- Adam and Eve and Us: Part Two
- Eve as a symbol for the Church
- Where is your Garden of Eden?
- Puzzling over Genesis and the Fall
- Wednesday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
- The Existence Of The Snake
- Friday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
- Recap: What Every Christian Should Know About Genesis 1-4
- Gospel Theology (Pt. 3) – Original Sin
- Adversary. Accuser. (Zechariah 3:1)
- Occasions of sin
- Watching Ourselves
- The Life of a 21st Century Prophet: Introspection
- Scripture for Thursday, October 13 (10/13)
- Temptation, Treadmills & Grace
- Temptations
- I Have a Confession To Make…
- Hell
- Believing Is Not Seeing
- 1 Corinthians 9-16: I Struggle With These Chapters
- Why Did God Flood The Earth If He Later Allowed The Same Thing To Happen Again?
- A Deceitful Trick that Leads to Less
- JES31 – He Comes Loking For Us
- living in a messy world
- The Apple of Discord — Thomas Hart Benton
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The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #5 Temptation, assault and curse
After the choice Adam and Eve made to go against the Will of God, eating of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, God came to deal with three parties in the fall of mankind: Adam, Eve and the serpent. An alleged fourth – the devil – is not mentioned in Genesis narrative. This for the simple reason the symbolic tempter (satan), the serpent, or the evil thoughts in Eve’s mind are the evil itself.
Book of Genesis, Fall of Man. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The most common presentation of Adam and Eve does not reflect clearly enough their theological significance, at least as seen in the New Testament. Too many people forget where the trouble started and do not come to see the essence of our suffering today being the cause of man its own choice. Eve decided herself, by her own choice to go against the wishes of God. She herself wanted to be like God. The apostle Paul, being a Jewish scholar knew very well the problem of evil and suffering. For him it was also clear what choice Adam and Eve had made and why.
For Paul the wrath on mankind was caused by the anger of God (Romans 5:9) It does not have to mean we are enemies of God, but Eve her action showed God how man doubted His position. For the opposing attitude of Eve God reckoned against the sinner. In the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis, we hear God giving a first commandment: not eating of the fruit of the tree of conscience (the Tree of knowledge of good and evil). He is aware that they could see death reigning in the world form Adam’s time to the time of Moses (Knox).
Romans 5: 14 1But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over 2them also that sinned not after the like 3manner of the transgression of Adam, 4which was the figure of him that was to come.
In his letter to the Romans we get to hear that Adam foreshadows another person who had to come. The first Adam or the first man, corresponds in some degree to the man who was to come, and whose birth 2020 years ago we remember this year. That man being born was a gift to mankind, from God, which more powerfully affected mankind.
Romans 5: 15 1But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of 2that one, many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Adam and Eve committed an offence on which God had to react. He could directly destroy them and start all over again by creating some new living beings in his likeness which would keep to His commandment. Moreover, the boon of God exceeds the fruit of Adam and Eve’s sin. On that contrast between the gift and the results of that one sin, we shall come back in later chapters.
By their act, going against God’s Will, and by wanting to be like God, their Maker gave them the opportunity to show how much they themselves could make of it all. God’s right to govern was doubted, so know they could come to govern themselves and could come to make something of the world. Because all the children of Adam and Eve came after their choice of adversary they all fell under the spell or curse God came to bring over them. Adam and Eve after eating of the Tree of knowledge came to know the difference between good and evil and became weaker than before, because they now had knowledge. We can not escape the relationship from the first human beings. For just because of their relation to Adam and Eve all men fall under the spell of God and have to bear the consequences of that rebellion of the first carnal man. Being the descendants of Adam and Eve we all became members of a sinful race and we all shall have to face death.
1 Corinthians 15: 21 1For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 1made alive.In the letter to the Corinthians we are also told there is a solution. In those Greek Writings we find another confirmation of the same consequent: for Christ is to be considered as opposite to Adam, that as from one man Adam, sin came over all, so from one man Christ, life comes unto all: that is to say, that all the faithful, as they die, because by nature they were born of Adam, so because in Christ they are made the children of God by grace, they are quickened and restored to life by him. {annotation of the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition}
The way the apostle Paul looks at the 1° and the 2° Adam places the Adam-story within a royal context, because the essence of the matter were Adam and Eve impeaching the Divine Creator. Them to query God His Most High position, is the biggest issue. This way a battle over kingship and its relation to the universe was initiated. The position of the one sent from God as a solution is too often missed by the majority of people, even by those who call themselves Christian.
In the Garden of Eden sin entered in the world of man. In a royal garden or orchard Jeshua (Jesus Christ) accepted the fact he must follow not his will but the Will of the Most High God, and should go to the stake. (Matthew 26:36-46)
In the Holy Scriptures a garden is used to express joy, peace and satisfaction.
Adam and Eve by Peter Paul Rubens (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Jeremiah 31: 12 Therefore they shall come, and rejoice in the height of Zion, and shall run to the bountifulness
of the Lord, even for the 1wheat and for the wine, and for the oil, and for the increase of sheep and bullocks: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall have no more sorrow.Adam and Eve had no sorrow in the Garden of Eden. They had everything they needed. But God did wanted to teach them a lesson and did not want them in His Garden any more. Since Adam listened to his wife and ate from the tree whose fruit Jehovah God commanded him not to eat, the ground is cursed because of him. So his deed became the cause of the earth coming in problems by man. It is often by the wrong actions of men that something bad happens in the world, for example mudslides because men took away all the trees.
All our life now we will have to struggle to scratch a living from it. God told man that it will grow thorns and thistles for us, though man will eat of its grains. This time not for nothing any more, like it was in the Royal Garden. From then onwards man had to make his own garden and work with his own hands for it. By the sweat of our brow, will we have food to eat until we die, i.e. return to the ground from which man were made. Because we shall have to be reminded that we were made from dust, and to dust we will return.
But woman certainly could not escape. For him and her there was first no pain, but knowing now good and bad they also came to know pain and sorrow. The pain of woman’s pregnancy was going to be sharpened, and in pain she will give birth. She still was going to be able to give children, but concerning having control over things it would be more difficult. God warned her that though she still will desire to control her husband, it will be him who is going to rule over her.Genesis 3: 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy 1sorrows, and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thy desire shall be subject to thine husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return.
20 (And the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living)
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God 1make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, 1Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand, and 2take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the earth, whence he was taken.
24 Thus he cast out the man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sword shaken, to keep the way of the tree of life.Adam, Eve, but also we should see that the transgression of God’s commandment was the cause that both mankind and all other creatures were subject to the curse God spoke in that Kingdom of God, the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, fell from the estate of integrity in which God had created them and now had to build their own kingdom (a kingdom of man) in their own world.
Temptation was the occasion; it was not the cause. To be subjected to temptation is not sinful for the tempted. Embrace and acquiescence constitute sin, i.e. going in against the Will of God.
Eve succumbed to the ideas in her head. Her heart wanted to have so much as God. She herself made the choice to take the fruit and to eat it. She came to the point of overt disobedience to the divine prohibition. Adam trusted his partner and with her in the adventure, hoping also to get the knowledge of good and evil and wanting to become wise (Genesis 3:6 ASV)The tempter had gained the trust of the first human beings. Eve had accepted as true what was a blasphemous assault upon the veracity of Good and came to regard the tree as desirable in the direction that contravened the divine prohibition. Eve served herself as carnal creature rather than the Divine Creator.
The mannin her failure to recoil with revulsion from the temptation and the idea that she would not die (Genesis 3:4) is evidence that defection had already taken place and that she exemplified the invariable psychology of sin that overt action proceeds from the inward disposition of heart.
Proverbs 23: 7 For as though he thought it in his heart: so will he say unto thee, Eat and drink: but his heart is not
with thee.Man loves to give the fault of their wrong doing to others or say it is not from them. But In the Messianic Scriptures the sent one from God clearly warns man that there is nothing outside man. Summoning the multitude rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ) addressed the crowd close to him and told them that we should worry about what comes out of man. It is that what is inside and comes outside that pollutes or defiles man. It is from inside, out of man’s heart that come evil thoughts and actions, like self-seeking, pride, jealousy or envying, slander, malice, double-dealing, lying, deceiving, misleading, betraying, sexual vice, adultery, fornication, theft or stealing, wickedness, murder, all things that make a person unclean.
Mark 7: 21 For from within, even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.We may not be mistaken, it is all from within ourselves. The satan or adversary comes from our inner thoughts which we allow to go wrong and where we give in. We can choose not to follow certain ideas, but when we chose to follow the wrong path then we sin. There may be manyfold temptation but it is how we react on them.Whenever you find yourself surrounded by various temptations do know that it all depends on your choice and on your faith which shall demand action (works of faith), leading to steadfastness, developing endurance. But to withstand such temptation man shall need now the courage to choose the right path and let patience finish its work that you may become fully developed and perfectly equipped, lacking in nothing or in no respect deficient. So when you are drawn away, enticed and baited by your own evil desire, like Eve was, let yourself not be beguiled and allured by your own evil desire and enticed by a bait. Remember that when passion or desire conceives and gives birth to sin, than when the bad act or sin runs its course and get fully matured it shall give birth to death. We may not be mislead and make no mistake about this.
James 1: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence, and is enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth 1sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 1Err not my dear brethren.+
* Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition
Preceding articles
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #4 The Fall
Jesus begotten Son of God #10 Coming down spirit or flesh seed of Eve
Sayings of Jesus, what to believe and being or not of the devil
Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
A book of life and a man born more than two thousand years ago
When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #6 Curse and solution
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Additional reading
- Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
- A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
- First mention of a solution against death 1 To divine, serpent, opposition, satan and adversary
- First mention of a solution against death 2 Harm or no harm and naked truth
- First mention of a solution against death 3 Tempter Satan and man’s problems
- First mention of a solution against death 4 A seed for mankind
- First mention of a solution against death 5 Evil its law of death
- Necessity of a revelation of creation 1 Works of God and works of man
- A promise given in the Garden of Eden
- Set free from any form of mental torment or self-condemnation
- No curtain placed over tomorrow
- Around pre-existence of Christ
- Satan the evil within
- Additional comments to the 3rd Letter to the Romans
- Luther’s misunderstanding
- Solution for Willing hearts filled with gifts
- Redemption #2 Biblical solution
- When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
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Further reading of interest
- Images of God 1: Big and Close
- Genesis 3
- Day 7: Adam and Eve’s Relationship
- Creation and The Fall – A Dramatic Reading
- Did He Really Say That?
- What Happened in the Garden… Doesn’t Stay in the Garden
- There’s a Serpent in Your Bible.
- When Everything Went to Smash
- What Satan Offered Adam And Eve…
- Me-Centered More
- Adam and Eve and Us: Part Two
- Eve as a symbol for the Church
- Where is your Garden of Eden?
- Puzzling over Genesis and the Fall
- Wednesday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
- The Existence Of The Snake
- Friday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
- Recap: What Every Christian Should Know About Genesis 1-4
- Gospel Theology (Pt. 3) – Original Sin
- Adversary. Accuser. (Zechariah 3:1)
- Occasions of sin
- Watching Ourselves
- The Life of a 21st Century Prophet: Introspection
- Scripture for Thursday, October 13 (10/13)
- Temptation, Treadmills & Grace
- Temptations
- I Have a Confession To Make…
- Hell
- Believing Is Not Seeing
- 1 Corinthians 9-16: I Struggle With These Chapters
- Why Did God Flood The Earth If He Later Allowed The Same Thing To Happen Again?
- A Deceitful Trick that Leads to Less
- JES31 – He Comes Loking For Us
- living in a messy world
- The Apple of Discord — Thomas Hart Benton
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Related articles
- No Glasses for Moses
- Our Father’s House
- The Atonement of God by J.D. Myers
- Is Tim Kaine right about Genesis endorsing homosexual acts?
- Faith or Fear
- Questioning God
- Tim Kaine’s butchering of Genesis to justify the LGBT agenda is . . . quite something
- 10/3/16 OT
- VBS asks members ‘where are you?’
- Faith online
Save
Save
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The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #5 Temptation, assault and curse
After the choice Adam and Eve made to go against the Will of God, eating of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, God came to deal with three parties in the fall of mankind: Adam, Eve and the serpent. An alleged fourth – the devil – is not mentioned in Genesis narrative. This for the simple reason the symbolic tempter (satan), the serpent, or the evil thoughts in Eve’s mind are the evil itself.
Book of Genesis, Fall of Man. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The most common presentation of Adam and Eve does not reflect clearly enough their theological significance, at least as seen in the New Testament. Too many people forget where the trouble started and do not come to see the essence of our suffering today being the cause of man its own choice. Eve decided herself, by her own choice to go against the wishes of God. She herself wanted to be like God. The apostle Paul, being a Jewish scholar knew very well the problem of evil and suffering. For him it was also clear what choice Adam and Eve had made and why.
For Paul the wrath on mankind was caused by the anger of God (Romans 5:9) It does not have to mean we are enemies of God, but Eve her action showed God how man doubted His position. For the opposing attitude of Eve God reckoned against the sinner. In the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis, we hear God giving a first commandment: not eating of the fruit of the tree of conscience (the Tree of knowledge of good and evil). He is aware that they could see death reigning in the world form Adam’s time to the time of Moses (Knox).
Romans 5: 14 1But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over 2them also that sinned not after the like 3manner of the transgression of Adam, 4which was the figure of him that was to come.
In his letter to the Romans we get to hear that Adam foreshadows another person who had to come. The first Adam or the first man, corresponds in some degree to the man who was to come, and whose birth 2020 years ago we remember this year. That man being born was a gift to mankind, from God, which more powerfully affected mankind.
Romans 5: 15 1But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of 2that one, many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Adam and Eve committed an offence on which God had to react. He could directly destroy them and start all over again by creating some new living beings in his likeness which would keep to His commandment. Moreover, the boon of God exceeds the fruit of Adam and Eve’s sin. On that contrast between the gift and the results of that one sin, we shall come back in later chapters.
By their act, going against God’s Will, and by wanting to be like God, their Maker gave them the opportunity to show how much they themselves could make of it all. God’s right to govern was doubted, so know they could come to govern themselves and could come to make something of the world. Because all the children of Adam and Eve came after their choice of adversary they all fell under the spell or curse God came to bring over them. Adam and Eve after eating of the Tree of knowledge came to know the difference between good and evil and became weaker than before, because they now had knowledge. We can not escape the relationship from the first human beings. For just because of their relation to Adam and Eve all men fall under the spell of God and have to bear the consequences of that rebellion of the first carnal man. Being the descendants of Adam and Eve we all became members of a sinful race and we all shall have to face death.
1 Corinthians 15: 21 1For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 1made alive.In the letter to the Corinthians we are also told there is a solution. In those Greek Writings we find another confirmation of the same consequent: for Christ is to be considered as opposite to Adam, that as from one man Adam, sin came over all, so from one man Christ, life comes unto all: that is to say, that all the faithful, as they die, because by nature they were born of Adam, so because in Christ they are made the children of God by grace, they are quickened and restored to life by him. {annotation of the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition}
The way the apostle Paul looks at the 1° and the 2° Adam places the Adam-story within a royal context, because the essence of the matter were Adam and Eve impeaching the Divine Creator. Them to query God His Most High position, is the biggest issue. This way a battle over kingship and its relation to the universe was initiated. The position of the one sent from God as a solution is too often missed by the majority of people, even by those who call themselves Christian.
In the Garden of Eden sin entered in the world of man. In a royal garden or orchard Jeshua (Jesus Christ) accepted the fact he must follow not his will but the Will of the Most High God, and should go to the stake. (Matthew 26:36-46)
In the Holy Scriptures a garden is used to express joy, peace and satisfaction.
Adam and Eve by Peter Paul Rubens (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Jeremiah 31: 12 Therefore they shall come, and rejoice in the height of Zion, and shall run to the bountifulness
of the Lord, even for the 1wheat and for the wine, and for the oil, and for the increase of sheep and bullocks: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall have no more sorrow.Adam and Eve had no sorrow in the Garden of Eden. They had everything they needed. But God did wanted to teach them a lesson and did not want them in His Garden any more. Since Adam listened to his wife and ate from the tree whose fruit Jehovah God commanded him not to eat, the ground is cursed because of him. So his deed became the cause of the earth coming in problems by man. It is often by the wrong actions of men that something bad happens in the world, for example mudslides because men took away all the trees.
All our life now we will have to struggle to scratch a living from it. God told man that it will grow thorns and thistles for us, though man will eat of its grains. This time not for nothing any more, like it was in the Royal Garden. From then onwards man had to make his own garden and work with his own hands for it. By the sweat of our brow, will we have food to eat until we die, i.e. return to the ground from which man were made. Because we shall have to be reminded that we were made from dust, and to dust we will return.
But woman certainly could not escape. For him and her there was first no pain, but knowing now good and bad they also came to know pain and sorrow. The pain of woman’s pregnancy was going to be sharpened, and in pain she will give birth. She still was going to be able to give children, but concerning having control over things it would be more difficult. God warned her that though she still will desire to control her husband, it will be him who is going to rule over her.Genesis 3: 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy 1sorrows, and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thy desire shall be subject to thine husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return.
20 (And the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living)
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God 1make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, 1Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand, and 2take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the earth, whence he was taken.
24 Thus he cast out the man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sword shaken, to keep the way of the tree of life.Adam, Eve, but also we should see that the transgression of God’s commandment was the cause that both mankind and all other creatures were subject to the curse God spoke in that Kingdom of God, the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, fell from the estate of integrity in which God had created them and now had to build their own kingdom (a kingdom of man) in their own world.
Temptation was the occasion; it was not the cause. To be subjected to temptation is not sinful for the tempted. Embrace and acquiescence constitute sin, i.e. going in against the Will of God.
Eve succumbed to the ideas in her head. Her heart wanted to have so much as God. She herself made the choice to take the fruit and to eat it. She came to the point of overt disobedience to the divine prohibition. Adam trusted his partner and with her in the adventure, hoping also to get the knowledge of good and evil and wanting to become wise (Genesis 3:6 ASV)The tempter had gained the trust of the first human beings. Eve had accepted as true what was a blasphemous assault upon the veracity of Good and came to regard the tree as desirable in the direction that contravened the divine prohibition. Eve served herself as carnal creature rather than the Divine Creator.
The mannin her failure to recoil with revulsion from the temptation and the idea that she would not die (Genesis 3:4) is evidence that defection had already taken place and that she exemplified the invariable psychology of sin that overt action proceeds from the inward disposition of heart.
Proverbs 23: 7 For as though he thought it in his heart: so will he say unto thee, Eat and drink: but his heart is not
with thee.Man loves to give the fault of their wrong doing to others or say it is not from them. But In the Messianic Scriptures the sent one from God clearly warns man that there is nothing outside man. Summoning the multitude rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ) addressed the crowd close to him and told them that we should worry about what comes out of man. It is that what is inside and comes outside that pollutes or defiles man. It is from inside, out of man’s heart that come evil thoughts and actions, like self-seeking, pride, jealousy or envying, slander, malice, double-dealing, lying, deceiving, misleading, betraying, sexual vice, adultery, fornication, theft or stealing, wickedness, murder, all things that make a person unclean.
Mark 7: 21 For from within, even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.We may not be mistaken, it is all from within ourselves. The satan or adversary comes from our inner thoughts which we allow to go wrong and where we give in. We can choose not to follow certain ideas, but when we chose to follow the wrong path then we sin. There may be manyfold temptation but it is how we react on them.Whenever you find yourself surrounded by various temptations do know that it all depends on your choice and on your faith which shall demand action (works of faith), leading to steadfastness, developing endurance. But to withstand such temptation man shall need now the courage to choose the right path and let patience finish its work that you may become fully developed and perfectly equipped, lacking in nothing or in no respect deficient. So when you are drawn away, enticed and baited by your own evil desire, like Eve was, let yourself not be beguiled and allured by your own evil desire and enticed by a bait. Remember that when passion or desire conceives and gives birth to sin, than when the bad act or sin runs its course and get fully matured it shall give birth to death. We may not be mislead and make no mistake about this.
James 1: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence, and is enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth 1sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 1Err not my dear brethren.+
* Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition
Preceding articles
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #4 The Fall
Jesus begotten Son of God #10 Coming down spirit or flesh seed of Eve
Sayings of Jesus, what to believe and being or not of the devil
Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
A book of life and a man born more than two thousand years ago
When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #6 Curse and solution
++
Additional reading
- Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
- A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
- First mention of a solution against death 1 To divine, serpent, opposition, satan and adversary
- First mention of a solution against death 2 Harm or no harm and naked truth
- First mention of a solution against death 3 Tempter Satan and man’s problems
- First mention of a solution against death 4 A seed for mankind
- First mention of a solution against death 5 Evil its law of death
- Necessity of a revelation of creation 1 Works of God and works of man
- A promise given in the Garden of Eden
- Set free from any form of mental torment or self-condemnation
- No curtain placed over tomorrow
- Around pre-existence of Christ
- Satan the evil within
- Additional comments to the 3rd Letter to the Romans
- Luther’s misunderstanding
- Solution for Willing hearts filled with gifts
- Redemption #2 Biblical solution
- When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
+++
Further reading of interest
- Images of God 1: Big and Close
- Genesis 3
- Day 7: Adam and Eve’s Relationship
- Creation and The Fall – A Dramatic Reading
- Did He Really Say That?
- What Happened in the Garden… Doesn’t Stay in the Garden
- There’s a Serpent in Your Bible.
- When Everything Went to Smash
- What Satan Offered Adam And Eve…
- Me-Centered More
- Adam and Eve and Us: Part Two
- Eve as a symbol for the Church
- Where is your Garden of Eden?
- Puzzling over Genesis and the Fall
- Wednesday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
- The Existence Of The Snake
- Friday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
- Recap: What Every Christian Should Know About Genesis 1-4
- Gospel Theology (Pt. 3) – Original Sin
- Adversary. Accuser. (Zechariah 3:1)
- Occasions of sin
- Watching Ourselves
- The Life of a 21st Century Prophet: Introspection
- Scripture for Thursday, October 13 (10/13)
- Temptation, Treadmills & Grace
- Temptations
- I Have a Confession To Make…
- Hell
- Believing Is Not Seeing
- 1 Corinthians 9-16: I Struggle With These Chapters
- Why Did God Flood The Earth If He Later Allowed The Same Thing To Happen Again?
- A Deceitful Trick that Leads to Less
- JES31 – He Comes Loking For Us
- living in a messy world
- The Apple of Discord — Thomas Hart Benton
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Related articles
- No Glasses for Moses
- Our Father’s House
- The Atonement of God by J.D. Myers
- Is Tim Kaine right about Genesis endorsing homosexual acts?
- Faith or Fear
- Questioning God
- Tim Kaine’s butchering of Genesis to justify the LGBT agenda is . . . quite something
- 10/3/16 OT
- VBS asks members ‘where are you?’
- Faith online
Save
Save
Save
Rate this:
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The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #5 Temptation, assault and curse
After the choice Adam and Eve made to go against the Will of God, eating of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, God came to deal with three parties in the fall of mankind: Adam, Eve and the serpent. An alleged fourth – the devil – is not mentioned in Genesis narrative. This for the simple reason the symbolic tempter (satan), the serpent, or the evil thoughts in Eve’s mind are the evil itself.
Book of Genesis, Fall of Man. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The most common presentation of Adam and Eve does not reflect clearly enough their theological significance, at least as seen in the New Testament. Too many people forget where the trouble started and do not come to see the essence of our suffering today being the cause of man its own choice. Eve decided herself, by her own choice to go against the wishes of God. She herself wanted to be like God. The apostle Paul, being a Jewish scholar knew very well the problem of evil and suffering. For him it was also clear what choice Adam and Eve had made and why.
For Paul the wrath on mankind was caused by the anger of God (Romans 5:9) It does not have to mean we are enemies of God, but Eve her action showed God how man doubted His position. For the opposing attitude of Eve God reckoned against the sinner. In the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis, we hear God giving a first commandment: not eating of the fruit of the tree of conscience (the Tree of knowledge of good and evil). He is aware that they could see death reigning in the world form Adam’s time to the time of Moses (Knox).
Romans 5: 14 1But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over 2them also that sinned not after the like 3manner of the transgression of Adam, 4which was the figure of him that was to come.
In his letter to the Romans we get to hear that Adam foreshadows another person who had to come. The first Adam or the first man, corresponds in some degree to the man who was to come, and whose birth 2020 years ago we remember this year. That man being born was a gift to mankind, from God, which more powerfully affected mankind.
Romans 5: 15 1But yet the gift is not so as is the offense: for if through the offense of 2that one, many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Adam and Eve committed an offence on which God had to react. He could directly destroy them and start all over again by creating some new living beings in his likeness which would keep to His commandment. Moreover, the boon of God exceeds the fruit of Adam and Eve’s sin. On that contrast between the gift and the results of that one sin, we shall come back in later chapters.
By their act, going against God’s Will, and by wanting to be like God, their Maker gave them the opportunity to show how much they themselves could make of it all. God’s right to govern was doubted, so know they could come to govern themselves and could come to make something of the world. Because all the children of Adam and Eve came after their choice of adversary they all fell under the spell or curse God came to bring over them. Adam and Eve after eating of the Tree of knowledge came to know the difference between good and evil and became weaker than before, because they now had knowledge. We can not escape the relationship from the first human beings. For just because of their relation to Adam and Eve all men fall under the spell of God and have to bear the consequences of that rebellion of the first carnal man. Being the descendants of Adam and Eve we all became members of a sinful race and we all shall have to face death.
1 Corinthians 15: 21 1For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be 1made alive.In the letter to the Corinthians we are also told there is a solution. In those Greek Writings we find another confirmation of the same consequent: for Christ is to be considered as opposite to Adam, that as from one man Adam, sin came over all, so from one man Christ, life comes unto all: that is to say, that all the faithful, as they die, because by nature they were born of Adam, so because in Christ they are made the children of God by grace, they are quickened and restored to life by him. {annotation of the 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition}
The way the apostle Paul looks at the 1° and the 2° Adam places the Adam-story within a royal context, because the essence of the matter were Adam and Eve impeaching the Divine Creator. Them to query God His Most High position, is the biggest issue. This way a battle over kingship and its relation to the universe was initiated. The position of the one sent from God as a solution is too often missed by the majority of people, even by those who call themselves Christian.
In the Garden of Eden sin entered in the world of man. In a royal garden or orchard Jeshua (Jesus Christ) accepted the fact he must follow not his will but the Will of the Most High God, and should go to the stake. (Matthew 26:36-46)
In the Holy Scriptures a garden is used to express joy, peace and satisfaction.
Adam and Eve by Peter Paul Rubens (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Jeremiah 31: 12 Therefore they shall come, and rejoice in the height of Zion, and shall run to the bountifulness
of the Lord, even for the 1wheat and for the wine, and for the oil, and for the increase of sheep and bullocks: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall have no more sorrow.Adam and Eve had no sorrow in the Garden of Eden. They had everything they needed. But God did wanted to teach them a lesson and did not want them in His Garden any more. Since Adam listened to his wife and ate from the tree whose fruit Jehovah God commanded him not to eat, the ground is cursed because of him. So his deed became the cause of the earth coming in problems by man. It is often by the wrong actions of men that something bad happens in the world, for example mudslides because men took away all the trees.
All our life now we will have to struggle to scratch a living from it. God told man that it will grow thorns and thistles for us, though man will eat of its grains. This time not for nothing any more, like it was in the Royal Garden. From then onwards man had to make his own garden and work with his own hands for it. By the sweat of our brow, will we have food to eat until we die, i.e. return to the ground from which man were made. Because we shall have to be reminded that we were made from dust, and to dust we will return.
But woman certainly could not escape. For him and her there was first no pain, but knowing now good and bad they also came to know pain and sorrow. The pain of woman’s pregnancy was going to be sharpened, and in pain she will give birth. She still was going to be able to give children, but concerning having control over things it would be more difficult. God warned her that though she still will desire to control her husband, it will be him who is going to rule over her.Genesis 3: 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy 1sorrows, and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thy desire shall be subject to thine husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return.
20 (And the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living)
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God 1make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, 1Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand, and 2take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the earth, whence he was taken.
24 Thus he cast out the man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sword shaken, to keep the way of the tree of life.Adam, Eve, but also we should see that the transgression of God’s commandment was the cause that both mankind and all other creatures were subject to the curse God spoke in that Kingdom of God, the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, fell from the estate of integrity in which God had created them and now had to build their own kingdom (a kingdom of man) in their own world.
Temptation was the occasion; it was not the cause. To be subjected to temptation is not sinful for the tempted. Embrace and acquiescence constitute sin, i.e. going in against the Will of God.
Eve succumbed to the ideas in her head. Her heart wanted to have so much as God. She herself made the choice to take the fruit and to eat it. She came to the point of overt disobedience to the divine prohibition. Adam trusted his partner and with her in the adventure, hoping also to get the knowledge of good and evil and wanting to become wise (Genesis 3:6 ASV)The tempter had gained the trust of the first human beings. Eve had accepted as true what was a blasphemous assault upon the veracity of Good and came to regard the tree as desirable in the direction that contravened the divine prohibition. Eve served herself as carnal creature rather than the Divine Creator.
The mannin her failure to recoil with revulsion from the temptation and the idea that she would not die (Genesis 3:4) is evidence that defection had already taken place and that she exemplified the invariable psychology of sin that overt action proceeds from the inward disposition of heart.
Proverbs 23: 7 For as though he thought it in his heart: so will he say unto thee, Eat and drink: but his heart is not
with thee.Man loves to give the fault of their wrong doing to others or say it is not from them. But In the Messianic Scriptures the sent one from God clearly warns man that there is nothing outside man. Summoning the multitude rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ) addressed the crowd close to him and told them that we should worry about what comes out of man. It is that what is inside and comes outside that pollutes or defiles man. It is from inside, out of man’s heart that come evil thoughts and actions, like self-seeking, pride, jealousy or envying, slander, malice, double-dealing, lying, deceiving, misleading, betraying, sexual vice, adultery, fornication, theft or stealing, wickedness, murder, all things that make a person unclean.
Mark 7: 21 For from within, even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.We may not be mistaken, it is all from within ourselves. The satan or adversary comes from our inner thoughts which we allow to go wrong and where we give in. We can choose not to follow certain ideas, but when we chose to follow the wrong path then we sin. There may be manyfold temptation but it is how we react on them.Whenever you find yourself surrounded by various temptations do know that it all depends on your choice and on your faith which shall demand action (works of faith), leading to steadfastness, developing endurance. But to withstand such temptation man shall need now the courage to choose the right path and let patience finish its work that you may become fully developed and perfectly equipped, lacking in nothing or in no respect deficient. So when you are drawn away, enticed and baited by your own evil desire, like Eve was, let yourself not be beguiled and allured by your own evil desire and enticed by a bait. Remember that when passion or desire conceives and gives birth to sin, than when the bad act or sin runs its course and get fully matured it shall give birth to death. We may not be mislead and make no mistake about this.
James 1: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence, and is enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth 1sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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* Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition
Preceding articles
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner
The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #4 The Fall
Jesus begotten Son of God #10 Coming down spirit or flesh seed of Eve
Sayings of Jesus, what to believe and being or not of the devil
Not about personal salvation but about a bigger Plan
A book of life and a man born more than two thousand years ago
When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
Next: The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #6 Curse and solution
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Additional reading
- Looking for a primary cause and a goal that can not offer philosophers existing beliefs
- A multifold of elements in creation and a bad choice made
- First mention of a solution against death 1 To divine, serpent, opposition, satan and adversary
- First mention of a solution against death 2 Harm or no harm and naked truth
- First mention of a solution against death 3 Tempter Satan and man’s problems
- First mention of a solution against death 4 A seed for mankind
- First mention of a solution against death 5 Evil its law of death
- Necessity of a revelation of creation 1 Works of God and works of man
- A promise given in the Garden of Eden
- Set free from any form of mental torment or self-condemnation
- No curtain placed over tomorrow
- Around pre-existence of Christ
- Satan the evil within
- Additional comments to the 3rd Letter to the Romans
- Luther’s misunderstanding
- Solution for Willing hearts filled with gifts
- Redemption #2 Biblical solution
- When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
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Further reading of interest
- Images of God 1: Big and Close
- Genesis 3
- Day 7: Adam and Eve’s Relationship
- Creation and The Fall – A Dramatic Reading
- Did He Really Say That?
- What Happened in the Garden… Doesn’t Stay in the Garden
- There’s a Serpent in Your Bible.
- When Everything Went to Smash
- What Satan Offered Adam And Eve…
- Me-Centered More
- Adam and Eve and Us: Part Two
- Eve as a symbol for the Church
- Where is your Garden of Eden?
- Puzzling over Genesis and the Fall
- Wednesday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
- The Existence Of The Snake
- Friday-(Created & Fallen) Devotion
- Recap: What Every Christian Should Know About Genesis 1-4
- Gospel Theology (Pt. 3) – Original Sin
- Adversary. Accuser. (Zechariah 3:1)
- Occasions of sin
- Watching Ourselves
- The Life of a 21st Century Prophet: Introspection
- Scripture for Thursday, October 13 (10/13)
- Temptation, Treadmills & Grace
- Temptations
- I Have a Confession To Make…
- Hell
- Believing Is Not Seeing
- 1 Corinthians 9-16: I Struggle With These Chapters
- Why Did God Flood The Earth If He Later Allowed The Same Thing To Happen Again?
- A Deceitful Trick that Leads to Less
- JES31 – He Comes Loking For Us
- living in a messy world
- The Apple of Discord — Thomas Hart Benton
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Anubis – Anthromorphicide Review By Grin ReaperStraddling the line between power metal and thrash, Anubis returns two years removed from their debut to unveil full-length follow-up Anthromorphicide. According to the promo materials,1 this translates to ‘the death of the human form,’ with Anubis mastermind Devin Reiche (Hatchet) clarifying that Anthromorphicide captures a band in flux as they ‘evolve in real time.’ Anubis formed back in 2018, and between then and now, they’ve released six EPs as well as 2024 LP Dark Paradise. The band maintains a steady course with Anthromorphicide, yet power thrash is niche enough that newer bands struggle to escape comparisons to its cornerstones (namely, Iced Earth). Given Anubis’ claim of continuously maturing their sound, how far do they extend past the limits imposed by themselves and the genre?
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Considering the lineup turbulence Anubis has weathered, Anthromorphicide evinces a natural progression. Each of their releases combines power metal’s anthemic songwriting with thrash’s chugs and aggressive riffing, and while Anthromorphicide is no different, it feels more vibrant and deliberate. Fun abounds when songs strong-arm listeners into singing along, such as the “Moonchild”like opening to “Ancient at Birth” or the candy-coated, synth-driven bop “My Favorite Cage,” elevated by Zhariah’s guest vocals. Anthromorphicide isn’t chintzy, singalong cheese, though, and Anubis adds plenty of heart and grit into the formula. “Celestial” conjures Follow the Blind-era Blind Guardian with kinetic drumming and furious riffing, while longtime bassist Will Buckley buffets with his buttery bottom-end. “The Arcanist” in particular highlights Buckley’s fluid grooves, recalling D.D. Verni’s (Overkill) in-your-face aesthetic. Through it all, Ulises Hernandez (Judicator) flits and wails in tandem with returning guitarist Justin Escamilla, ensuring a dual-axe flurry that rarely misses.
Anubis shimmers during Anthromorphicide’s best moments, yet small snags hold it back. The first and final thirds of the album bristle with energy and deft execution, but the middle third sags compared to the bookends. The opening triad purrs with engrossing riffs and memorable melodies, but “The Fire Inside” slows proceedings with a seven-minute ballad that stalls Anthromorphicide’s momentum. Slow, contemplative numbers have their place, but just because it’s slow doesn’t mean it should be long. Paces accelerate from there, but it’s not until “My Favorite Cage” that I’m properly back in the groove. And that’s not to suggest that the intervening songs aren’t good, mind—just that they lack the show-stopping moments needed to reignite the flames left smoldering after “The Arcanist.” On the production front, Anthromorphicide sounds a bit thin and glossy. The bass drum and toms, contributed by David Velez, work well, but the cymbals get buried in the mix while the snare sounds flat and lifeless. Anubis commits no glaring sins, but the sum total of the minor gripes inhibits the album’s staying power.
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When I click the “Publish” button at the top right of this page, this post won’t only appear at the Web address this blog has occupied since April of 2011. People who have chosen to follow this blog on Mastodon will get the full text on that network–and if they reply, their feedback there will show up as a comment here.
At least, that’s how I think things will work. I’ve only had a couple of days to grasp WordPress.com’s announcement Wednesday of its new integration of the ActivityPub open standard behind Mastodon and other federated-social-media platforms. Since I’ve already had nine other people take up my invitation to follow this blog on the “fediverse,” notwithstanding its ungainly “@[email protected]” handle–and since I wrote about this venture Thursday for PCMag–I hope I’ve got that right.
Seeing this sort of open-ended experimentation happen is a good thing about life in the fediverse. I like participating in a project that’s still in a creation stage.
But the last two weeks also reminded me of the potential costs of setting up shop on a social platform in flux: The Mastodon instance I’ve mostly-happily occupied since last November, journa.host, merged into another journalism-centric instance, newsie.social, with no advance notice visible from its admins. I learned about this from an easily-missed announcement in the Mastodon Web app, after which a post from the journa.host admin team pledged that “Journa.host will continue to operate as an independent server and there will be no changes for our current members.”
And then two apparently migration-induced server glitches left me unable to use my account for an hour or two, after which I had to resolve an images-not-loading issue in one browser.
None of those things amount to an instance-firing offense (for a contrary perspective, see this thread from freelance journalist Zecharias Zelalem), but the experience did lead me to think about what changing instances might be like if things came to that. And the answer would be: not great! Mastodon’s data-transfer support is closer to “settings portability” than “account portability.” To wit, while moving my account to a new instance would let me keep my follower and following lists, my handle would change and my older posts would not show up at my new fediverse abode.
The AT Protocol underneath Bluesky, the decentralized Twitter alternative at which I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time, does allow full account portability–although that support remains somewhat evanescent until a good set of competing “Personal Data Servers” come online. So my Twitter-bailout scenario remains unclear, even if I’m increasingly sure that the answer won’t be Meta’s Threads.
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Lysanias van Abila
Een inscriptie die een Lysanias verneldt – maar welke?Zoals de trouwe lezers van deze blog weten, schrijf ik op zondag vaak over de joods-Romeinse wereld van het Nieuwe Testament. Inmiddels zijn we beland in een kleine “sub-serie” over mensen die ook bekend zijn uit andere bronnen dan de Bijbel, en vandaag moet dat maar eens een Syriër zijn: Lysanias. Niet het bekendste personage. Hij heeft precies één vermelding:
In het vijftiende jaar van de regering van keizer Tiberius, toen Pontius Pilatus Judea bestuurde, en Herodes tetrarch was over Galilea, zijn broer Filippos over het gebied van Iturea en Trachonitis, en Lysanias over Abilene, en toen Ananos en Kajafas hogepriester waren, richtte God zich in de woestijn tot Johannes, de zoon van Zacharias.noot Lukas 3.1-2; NBV21.
Tweemaal Lysanias
De evangelist Lukas doet zijn best het optreden van Johannes de Doper exact te dateren en geef en passant een schets van de Joodse wereld: Kajafas hogepriester, Ananos als de machtige patriarch van Kajafas’ familie, in het zuiden de Romeinse provincie Judea, en verder de herodiaanse vorsten Herodes Antipas en Filippos in de wat noorderlijker gebieden. En Lysanias was dus tetrarch in Abilene, dat wil zeggen in een stukje van het Antilibanon-gebergte aan weerszijden van de weg van de Bekaavallei naar Damascus. De titel van tetrarch werd gegeven aan heersers die regeerden over een gedeelte van een ouder, groter rijk. Later zou de tetrarchie van Abilene worden toegewezen aan Herodes Agrippa I.
En dit, beste lezers, is alles wat we over Lysanias weten. Hij was tetrarch van Abilene in het vijftiende regeringsjaar van Tiberius, zo rond 28 na Chr. We kunnen verder nog wat speculeren: een ruime halve eeuw eerder, rond 40 v.Chr., was een andere Lysanias hier aan de macht. Dat kan zijn opa of een oudoom zijn geweest.
Inscriptie
En dan is er nog de hierboven afgebeelde inscriptie. Die is in 1912 bestudeerd door de Franse archeoloog Raphaël Savignac en bleek letterlijk dezelfde tekst te bevatten als een eerder ontdekte inscriptie, die echter op dat moment al verloren was.
Voor het welzijn van Heren Augusti en hun gehele huis heeft Nymfaios, zoon van Abimmes, vrijgelatene van de tetrach Lysanias, de weg laten aanleggen, de tempel laten bouwen en de gehele beplanting verzorgd, op eigen kosten, voor heerser Kronos en zijn vaderland, uit vroomheid.noot Revue biblique 1912, 536; vertaling Gert Knepper.
Kronos is de Griekse naam van de oud-oosterse god El. Het vervelende is nu dat (voor zover ik weet) niemand de herontdekte inscriptie ooit nog heeft gezien; we hebben dus alleen deze afbeelding uit 1912. Savignac meende dat de inscriptie alleen kon slaan op “onze” Lysanias, omdat Abilene later was toegewezen aan Herodes Agrippa. De verwijzing naar de heren Augusti, meervoud, suggereert echter een veel latere datering, toen er meer dan één keizer was. Het is helemaal niet uitgesloten dat Nymfaios de vrijgelatene is geweest van een nog latere, derde Lysanias.
[Een overzicht van deze reeks over het Nieuwe Testament is hier.]
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