Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt-10 by Sylvia Pearce Christ, Out|mas

Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt-10 by Sylvia Pearce Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt-8 by Sylvia Pearce Programs 8, 9, & 10 The Garden of Eden The glory of God permeated the first man as well as his perfect garden (Gen. 1:31) In the beginning, God is all and in all (Gen. 1:1), and in the end of all things when all evil and death will be swallowed up in life, then God is again all and in all (I Cor. 15:28). God will be all and in all in his redeemed creation I Cor. 15:22-28. Gen. 2:7—God’s perfect man. First Creation—1:26-- God made man a spirit being, Second creation—2:7--God blew the Spirit man into a body and gave him a form. Gen. 2:23-- Man was made both male and female until Eve was taken out of him. Gen 2:8—God’s perfect garden. The perfect environment didn’t cover the whole earth. Adam was meant to dominion over the whole earth. Gen 3:1—God’s serpent. Satan appeared as an angle of light, or presented to them what seemed reasonable. Gen. 2:17—All yeses, only one no, or should I say only one Law in the whole discourse. Gen. 3:19—discourse Gen.3:14-17—God condemned Satan, but gave man merciful consequences that would draw him back home. “Are you saying, God subjected us to the fall?” Yes, God handed us innocent babes, right into the hands of subtle Satan. But God’s Wisdom knows that a son, in order to know what it means to be a son of God, has to be confronted by opposites. We are not fully persons until we exercise our royal capacity of choice, and choice must mean choosing between two opposites. Wisdom also knows that the babe must take vanity as a false reality, develop it as a false independent identity and suffer the full consequences of unbelief. Then and only then could man be conditioned to receive the opposite kingdom of God and know his true identity as Christ with full experiential knowledge as a mature son. Our first parents fatal choice of disobedience brought into being God’s ‘curses of mercy’ which brought them suffering, satanic bondages and negative consequences. God means these consequences to come into full manifestation in us. Suffering conditions us and breaks us down so that we might see and receive the one provision for all evil, the Lord Jesus Christ, and be fully delivered from the bondage of corruption unto the glorious liberty of the children of God. Eden's location remains the subject of controversy and speculation among some Christians. There are hypotheses that locate Eden at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates, in Iraq (Mesopotamia), Africa, and the Persian Gulf, TWO TREES IN THE GARDEN Tree of Death Tree of Life Satan’s Consciousness Christ’s Consciousness False Independent Self True Unified Self (Gen. 2:17) (Gen. 2:9) KNOWLEDGE of KNOWLEDGE of Good Evil Death/Resurrection (The Cross) Warring Opposites Harmony Wrath Peace Separation is Reality Union is Reality Life is not a tree, for the Bible says that “He that hath life hath the Son.” So life is a person. The tree of life represents the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The tree of death also represents a person. It represents Satan, the author of death. Why then did God call the evil tree, the tree of knowledge. A tree isn’t knowledge either. Yet if Adam and Eve partook of that tree they would acquire another knowledge different from what they already had. Since the “tree of death,” represented Satan, then the knowledge they would acquire was Satan’s very own consciousness or mind. What is this knowledge? It is the knowledge of independence and separation from God; it is the knowledge of false faith in oneself; it is the knowledge that the creation has its own life or power source; it is the knowledge of being puffed-up and arrogant; it is the knowledge of over glorified self; it is the knowledge of self-sufficiency; it is the knowledge of being ashamed and overcome with self-hatred; and it is the knowledge of excusing and justifying ourselves and blaming others for our own foolishness and sins. It is the knowledge of death. What is the knowledge in the “tree of life?” The Tree of Life represented Christ’s own consciousness or mind. What is this knowledge? It is the knowledge of oneness with the Father as my life source; it is the knowledge of the Cross; it is the knowledge of harmony and peace; it is the knowledge of self-less other--love; it is the knowledge of unceasing joy; and it is the knowledge of God Himself, because it is the mind of Christ. Didn’t Adam and Eve already have the mind of Christ? Yes, but they had no experienced knowledge of what that meant. They had nothing to compare it to.

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