A consideration of the fall and it affected our interpersonal reactions
As a general point; sin led to us having to learn what was lost but also involves having to UNLEARN all that has blinded us since the Fall.
As I stated in the last post we all start out rather self focused; this in itself isn't necessarily TOTALLY due to the fall or necessarily wrong (we could look at Christ or John the Baptist as examples) but God calls some such as John the Baptist and Jeremiah from birth. What makes sin a vice is when someone learns how to pursue deliberate actions for the sole purpose of self satisfaction at the expense of others. No decent mother would tell a 2 year old they are being selfish for crying for food. To explain that it is your sin nature; and the whole concept of repentance is beyond their grasp until later on; although by nature kids manipulation is often well developed and parents tend to be led toward bargaining and then to the extreme of abusive rebuke as if they are an adult. Neither purpose is effective; of course.
The idea I'm proposing here is how would man have interacted with one another if they hadn't fallen? How would Adam and Eve and their children reacted?
Now that we're redeemed; in the same liine of thinking we should begin to think how we are part of a heavenly army.
Isaiah 13:4 says "Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations massing together! The LORD Almighty is mustering an army for war.
There are other verses such as Joel 2 and many Psalms that also deal with these concepts. Our future involves interactions with other heavenly Host (such as we see in Hebrews 11); as well as with those physical survivors of the Millennium. We will rule and reign over angels as well as we see in Hebrews 1:14 as well as judge them as 1 Corinthians states.
We have a glorious future. This world is not our home IF we are truly born from above.
As a general point; sin led to us having to learn what was lost but also involves having to UNLEARN all that has blinded us since the Fall.
As I stated in the last post we all start out rather self focused; this in itself isn't necessarily TOTALLY due to the fall or necessarily wrong (we could look at Christ or John the Baptist as examples) but God calls some such as John the Baptist and Jeremiah from birth. What makes sin a vice is when someone learns how to pursue deliberate actions for the sole purpose of self satisfaction at the expense of others. No decent mother would tell a 2 year old they are being selfish for crying for food. To explain that it is your sin nature; and the whole concept of repentance is beyond their grasp until later on; although by nature kids manipulation is often well developed and parents tend to be led toward bargaining and then to the extreme of abusive rebuke as if they are an adult. Neither purpose is effective; of course.
The idea I'm proposing here is how would man have interacted with one another if they hadn't fallen? How would Adam and Eve and their children reacted?
Now that we're redeemed; in the same liine of thinking we should begin to think how we are part of a heavenly army.
Isaiah 13:4 says "Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations massing together! The LORD Almighty is mustering an army for war.
There are other verses such as Joel 2 and many Psalms that also deal with these concepts. Our future involves interactions with other heavenly Host (such as we see in Hebrews 11); as well as with those physical survivors of the Millennium. We will rule and reign over angels as well as we see in Hebrews 1:14 as well as judge them as 1 Corinthians states.
We have a glorious future. This world is not our home IF we are truly born from above.
Maranatha. RP
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