Despite his personal departure from society, Ha-Adam’s / The Human’s covenanted, ergo perpetual, grant of dominion over the earth is perpetuated through his genes – that miniscule packet of selfhood transferred first to the Woman by cloning, then passed to all their human offspring in the gametes.
This continuity is expressed in the proclamation “The king is dead. Long live the king!”
The number of humans ever born is probably around 80 billion…almost half have been born…since the year 1 AD. One human in five (15 billion) was born during the last two centuries and almost one in ten (7.8 billion) is still alive. This recent pattern of rapid population growth is specific to human beings.
According to Malachi, people in other cultures around the world, separated by space-time from the New Testament, who never heard “the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth”, never heard that he was “crucified, whom God raised from the dead”, are saved.
- “Behold, I / YHVH will send my messenger / John the Baptist,
- and he shall prepare the way before me:
- and the LORD / YHVH, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple,
- the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom (Matthew 27:51)
- even [and / in contrast to the first one I will come to] the messenger / mediator of the [new] covenant,
- Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs…being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain…This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses…having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost…Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.” (Acts 2:22-36)
- Then they that feared the LORD / YHVH / Creator spake often one to another:
- and the LORD hearkened, and heard [accepted] it,
- and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD / YHVH / Creator, and that thought upon his name.
- And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels;
- and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
- Then shall ye [nation of Israel] return [to your God], and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.” (Malachi 3:16-18)
- “therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”
Faith in what?
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful;” (Romans 1:17-21)
Faith in a Creator, therefore powerful, life-giving and sustaining God, is based on the evidence of intelligent design in creation, available to everyone whether they have read a word of the Bible or not. The existence of religion throughout all cultures and time as worship and dependence on spiritual beings more powerful than humans is evidence of humanity’s innate consciousness of Spiritual Power over life and death.
Salvation from inborn disconnection from God
- imposed by the sin nature of the soul
- resulting in death of the body
- and eternal separation from the Source of Life
is achieved through a reality-based / right / right-eous relationship with God in accordance with the evidence that he is the Creator and founder of the laws of nature and we are his creation who can only live through sustained connection with the source of life via a relationship of submitting to his will.
“Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God…Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.” (James 2)
Although people today often treat the word Christ as though it is Jesus’s last name, it is actually not a name at all, but rather an epithet / descriptive title.
- The English word Christ is an Anglicized form of the
- Latin word Christus, which is, in turn, a Latinized form of the
- Greek word Χριστός (Christós), meaning “anointed one”, translated in the New Testament into the
- Hebrew title מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ), which has roughly the same meaning.
The title of māšîaḥ is a generic title applied to anyone who was fulfilled the role of God’s anointed for any God-given task. For instance, in Isaiah 45:1, the title is applied to Cyrus the Great, the shah-of-shahs of the Achaemenid Empire, who freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon after he captured the city in 539 BCE and allowed them to return home to rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem.
This proves that the Christianized Jesus is only one of many Messiahs sent to show the way to everlasting life – faith to faith – In The Creator Singularity Source of Life.
“God, who 1) at sundry times and 2) in divers manners
- spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
- Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
- whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
- by whom also he made [see relevant post for distinction from “created” the worlds;
- Who
- being the brightness of his glory / likeness
- and the express image of his person
- and upholding all things by the word of his power / dominion,
- when he had by himself purged our sins,
- sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high [not in His Majesty’s seat itself]
- Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
- They shall perish;
- but thou remainest;
- and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed:
- but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.” (Hebrews 1:1-12)
This nails down any misconception that this passage is referring to Jesus Christ as equal to God, since specifical to his role in salvation Jesus DID change, from mortal to immortal.
This also clarifies any misunderstandings applied out of context to other passages on salvation.
- “The Chosen Savior / Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God
- Because he fulfilled “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion” (Genesis 1:26)]
- but made himself of no reputation,
- and took upon him the form of a servant [rather than authority],
- and was made in the likeness of men – i.e. sinful:
- And being found in fashion [mode] as a [sinful] man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death [consequence of sin].” (Philippians 2:6-8)
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- “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:…even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression
- so also is the free gift…
- For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners,
- so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous..” (Romans 5:12-19)
And through the process of death to old allowing new life, new worlds and new civilizations! in both the material world of DNA and the spirit, every one of us have the potential to become deliverers from this present world of evil.
“God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Yahweh’s Anointed Savior / Yeshua Messiah / Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation…Now then we are ambassadors for The Consecrated One/Messiah/Christ…” (II Corinthians 5:18-20)
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