SemperFiDawg
Political Forum Arbiter of Truth (And Lies Too)
Genesis speaks to man's special relationship with God.
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
and God blessed them. They lived in the very presence of God as "he walked in the garden in the cool of the day."
These few simple words tell us so much about Adam's and Eve's relationship with God. Being created in God's image imparted infinite sanctity and dignity upon them. They were "blessed" and "given dominion" over the garden and all in it which speaks to his love and adoration of them.
We all know of the serpent's lie to Eve, “You will not certainly die,” and her believing the lie and it's consequences, but I think the damage was done before that. I think the damage came from, “Did God really say,.." That suggestion had to be devastating because of its implied presumptions.
“Did God really say,.." brought into question all that Eve believed about her relationship with God, His love for her, her worth, her sanctity, the very essence of who she was and where she stood in God's heart. For someone utterly innocent, it must have been akin to a young child hearing "You mom doesn't really love you, from a person of very high authority: totally devastating, her trust in her perception of her relationship with God shattered.
Isn't the true root of all sin simply buying into the lie that we are unloved by God? If Adam and Eve physically communed with God daily, and they didn't comprehend the depth of his love and devotion to them do we? We don't. We all have this deep feeling of being disconnected from God and unworthy of his love that uniformly leads us to sin. We do anything imaginable to make us feel better about ourselves for a while. We try drugs/alcohol, relationships, achievements, chase after power, money, denigrate others. The list is endless: anything to provide a palliative relief from the feeling of unworthiness. And isn't this lie of us, unloved by God, the very purpose Jesus came. John said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son...For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save. Paul said, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. LOVE! God's LOVE for us. Yes, Christ's death paid for our sins, but it's His love for us that brought him. Immanuel, God with us, is THE physical, verifiable refutation of the presumption," God doesn't value you.": the built in presumption Satan introduced with the question "Did God really say..?"
In my experience all sin is a result of, and I am certainly no exception, doing something to make us feel better about who we are. Without exception the root cause of that unworthy feeling is because we did not comprehend exactly who we are in relation to God. In other words we don't comprehend just how much we mean to him. Despite all of our transgressions, saved or unsaved, we still have infinite sanctity, infinite dignity, infinite worth. We each were born and live being made in his image. That hasn't and won't ever change. He has an undying, unquenchable love for each and every one of us, saved and unsaved.
Once someone can fully comprehend and accept it, the chase for the palliative measures to make one feel worthy cease to be necessary.
Now go explain to someone just how precious they are in God's eyes.
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
and God blessed them. They lived in the very presence of God as "he walked in the garden in the cool of the day."
These few simple words tell us so much about Adam's and Eve's relationship with God. Being created in God's image imparted infinite sanctity and dignity upon them. They were "blessed" and "given dominion" over the garden and all in it which speaks to his love and adoration of them.
We all know of the serpent's lie to Eve, “You will not certainly die,” and her believing the lie and it's consequences, but I think the damage was done before that. I think the damage came from, “Did God really say,.." That suggestion had to be devastating because of its implied presumptions.
“Did God really say,.." brought into question all that Eve believed about her relationship with God, His love for her, her worth, her sanctity, the very essence of who she was and where she stood in God's heart. For someone utterly innocent, it must have been akin to a young child hearing "You mom doesn't really love you, from a person of very high authority: totally devastating, her trust in her perception of her relationship with God shattered.
Isn't the true root of all sin simply buying into the lie that we are unloved by God? If Adam and Eve physically communed with God daily, and they didn't comprehend the depth of his love and devotion to them do we? We don't. We all have this deep feeling of being disconnected from God and unworthy of his love that uniformly leads us to sin. We do anything imaginable to make us feel better about ourselves for a while. We try drugs/alcohol, relationships, achievements, chase after power, money, denigrate others. The list is endless: anything to provide a palliative relief from the feeling of unworthiness. And isn't this lie of us, unloved by God, the very purpose Jesus came. John said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son...For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save. Paul said, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. LOVE! God's LOVE for us. Yes, Christ's death paid for our sins, but it's His love for us that brought him. Immanuel, God with us, is THE physical, verifiable refutation of the presumption," God doesn't value you.": the built in presumption Satan introduced with the question "Did God really say..?"
In my experience all sin is a result of, and I am certainly no exception, doing something to make us feel better about who we are. Without exception the root cause of that unworthy feeling is because we did not comprehend exactly who we are in relation to God. In other words we don't comprehend just how much we mean to him. Despite all of our transgressions, saved or unsaved, we still have infinite sanctity, infinite dignity, infinite worth. We each were born and live being made in his image. That hasn't and won't ever change. He has an undying, unquenchable love for each and every one of us, saved and unsaved.
Once someone can fully comprehend and accept it, the chase for the palliative measures to make one feel worthy cease to be necessary.
Now go explain to someone just how precious they are in God's eyes.
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