26 Apr '12 12:12>
Originally posted by kevcvs57
I have often wondered about this particular extract from the Eden story; it seems that God would have preferred mankind to be 'amoral' rather than; 'moral' as opposed to 'immoral', which would not clash with JS357s interpretation:-
"The Eden story tells of that tragic time when humans become aware that we have to control our natural individualistic instincts and obey man-made rules in order to have the benefits of living in a social group."
I have often wondered about this particular extract from the Eden story; it seems that God would have preferred mankind to be 'amoral' rather than; 'moral' as opposed to 'immoral', which would not clash with JS357s interpretation:-
"The Eden story tells of that tragic time when humans become aware that we have to control our natural individualistic instincts and obey man-made rules in order to have the benefits of living in a social group."
God wanted not a good man. God wanted a GOD-man.
He was created neutral, innocent, and directly instructed by the commands of God.
But he as supposed to partake of the tree of life. That would have moved him from that neutral and innocent creature to a creatured "organically" united to God possessing God within him as his natural life mingled with the divine and uncreated Person.
God did not simply want man to be good. He wanted to man to possess the uncreated Divine Person in a mingled and united way of blending.
What does this mingled - united - incorporated with Divine life man look like ?
We must study the Person of Jesus Christ to see this. Jesus Christ is what God meant by man. And it is not that Christ is an enigma. It is rather that we have fallen so far from normality.
Christ is God-man. And His eternal purpose is not to simply produe good people but to produce God-people. That is people united, mingled, blended with God Himself as their life.
The culmination of this GODNIZATION of humanity is seen in the marriage of Christ and His wife or bride the New Jerusalem at the end of the Bible.