Estudo | Glenio Fonseca Paranaguá - Life before the principle
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Life before the principle
In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God and the Word was God. John 1:1.
The Word or Logos was before the ages, so prior to the beginning. The beginning of all is the opening of the season in relation to space. Without matter there is no space and the motion of matter in space there is no time. The matter was formed by the action of the Word or the operation of God’s Word. It is by faith we understand that the ages were created by a word from God, so that from the invisible the visible world came to be. Hebrews 11:3. The invisible energy of the atom is hidden in the power of the Word.
Preceding the beginning of everything that exists, there is no creation or creature, there is only the Creator. Elohim is the Creator, plural of Eloh, which means God. The royal plural points to the collective personality of the Divine unit. Elohim is the triune God, timeless and immaterial, the creator of all that exists from the beginning, without ever having been created, therefore, never had a beginning and will never end.
Nothing existed before creation, not even the Creator, since He is the only spiritual reality essentially pre-existing. Elohim is the Cause of all causes, and the origin of the existence of everything that exists. Elohim is God and God is the only one who is, having never existed or never cease to exist.
His spiritual reality independent of matter in space and its temporal movement. He is simply in eternity that ever was, is and will be in the ages of existence and eternity with no beginning and no end. He is the eternal present, without past or future.
Elohim is the composition of the triune persons of the Father, the Son or Logos and the Spirit in one God. The Logos is the Word, the Word. It is Yahweh Elohim.
He is the uncreated Life giving life to man’s creation in the divine resemblance of the Creator. What has come into being in Him was life, life that was the light of John 1:4. Thus, He is eternal Life. He is the Life which gives life, illuminating the men and the life that generates life by making us children of the Father. Prior to the creation, life pre existed which gives life and creates life.
The Triune God said: Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves. So Yahweh Elohim or Jehovah God took the burden of the Trinity, in order to make the human being according to the divine will. Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being. Genesis 2:7. (In the original, the breath of lives).
Adam was made man with a temporary breath of life or a created and elective life able to decide freely. His existence was provided by a living soul, but neither mortal nor immortal. Life before the sin was not contaminated by death, nor it was the eternal life. It was a life created non-perishable, though not the uncreated and eternal life of God.
The life created without sin gave Adam the condition of freedom for him to choose between Elohim’s everlasting life, typified in the tree of life, and life subject to death, represented by the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He could choose to be a child of God, generated by the Life of God or just be a divine creature subject to death, if he took a personal decision for or against the will of God.
The human being was not created as a machine, like a sort of robot. He had the mind of a computer already determined and shaped by its manufacturer. Elohim was not the Bill Gates manufacturing laptops and Adam was created as a free person, able to choose voluntarily between being a mere creature of God or a child of God, moved by God’s own life, life is not created.
What makes a person free is the volitional capacity to choose between A and B. No one is free if it is already programmed or determined in its structure. If the human being came with eternal life, he could not choose to be the son of God by choice. He would come predetermined to have the Eternal Life or the Life of God Himself.
With his created life, Adam could choose the uncreated life and thus become a child of God voluntarily. Elohim always gave option to the human being, and always will, see, for example, his proposal to Israel: Today, I call heaven and earth to witness against you: I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live" Deuteronomy 30:19.
The Lord is not a systems programmer for the electronics, nor a despot imposing his decision from top to bottom. He would never impose His will to a free being, even if He has all the power to do so. Therefore a person who has his character pre arranged, can not be considered as a free person.
The life of creation was a free existence, but temporary and may be replaced by eternal life or the life of God himself, Adam chose to eat of the Tree of Life. Then Adam would be raised as a son of God through his free decision and voluntarily manifest. (My children could not choose their family).
The tree of Life was a kind of the eternal Son that is Who has the Life. If the Father wants to have a family with many children, only the one who would eat from that tree could become son of God the Father. The blowed life was a created life, then the human being wouldn´t be God´s children, but divine creature. From the spiritual point of view, Adam only could become God´s child if he wanted to eat from the tree of Life. Eternal life is not transmitted without the willing agreement of the one who receives it.
The Deity doesn´t force humanity to receive his Life. Due to sin the Adamic race fell from his position of innocence to a state of rebellion against God. Human being became a lost being on himself and separated from the eternal life.
When the Verb incarnated Himself and Life came to search and save those who had got lost in sin that brings death, the principle continued to be the same, it was needed to receive the One Who was given as the Life. "He came to his own home, and his own people received him not" John 1:11.
If we don´t receive the Son of God, none of us can be God´s child. The children of Abba are those who have the life of Abba Himself flowing on their beings and this life is emanating from His Son Jesus Christ. "He who has the Son, has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life". I John 5:12.
Adam was made living soul with a created life, but being able to become son of God if he had eaten from the non created tree of Life. Due to his personal disobedience his descendants got separated from God´s Life, in spiritual death, but now they also have the condition to become God´s children, receiving, by faith, the Life that´s in His Son. The person who receives the Son of God receives the Life of the son of God Jave Elohim, the One who is the Life before the creation, made man from dust of land and blew on the nostrils the breath of the created life, in order to capacitate him to choose between eternal Life as Abba´s son and the created life, subjected to death.
After the sinister option of the creature in eating from the forbidden fruit, Jave Elohim incarnated himself in mankind. The Verb became flesh and the Son of God came with the purpose to take out from his sinful creature, through his own death on the cross, the life contaminated by sin. Christ not only died for us, but He also included us in his flesh to make us die together with him.
Afterwards, by his resurrection among the dead, Jesus Christ granted to those who received Him as Savior of their corrupted lives by the ego, eternal Life, it means, the life of Abba´s children. Only who has the Life of the Son is God´s child.
One thing is to be a divine creature carrying a created life, another, very different, is to be son of God the Father with the Life of His Son, received by faith. " He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Sons hall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him". John 3:36.
The life that saves us from ourselves is not the biological life of Jesus, but the Life of Christ before the beginning of creation. The Logos, it means, the eternal Son of the Father, needed to incarnate on the historical Jesus to be able to crucify the sick life due to sin and, on the resurrection, give us the Life that can´t be imprisoned by sin anymore.
If sin generated death and Jesus died our death to sin, including us on His body, then we died with Him to sin, in order to receive the Life that´s no more subjected to eternal death. Now we are children of the Father with the life of His Son. "And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" Galatians 4:6.
A divine creature can be a big person, important one and morally worth in this world, but he will never be a heir in God´s Kingdom, because he hasn´t the Life of God´s child given by begotten only Son of the Father. Heritage is a subject to children and the filiation a question of Life. Jesus explained: "for they can not die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons after the resurrection". Luke 20:36.
The Life of God´s children is the patrimony that the new pact, that Jesus acquired on his death and resurrection, shared with mankind and donated to the called ones who believe. "Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant". Hebrews 9:15.
The life bios gets sick and dies with time. The life psique becomes proud and needs to be substituted by the zoe Life, the unique one that´s eternal and that ennobles the human being with the condition of son of God. No sinner can be saved without the death of the psique and the enthronization of the eternal zoe Life through the resurrection of Jesus Christ among the dead. Salvation is, then, the change or substitution of Adam´s life by the eternal life of Christ.