Sender Spike
2 min readDec 11, 2024

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"Gen. 2:15–17 applies to every human born on the earth as Ademic sin."

Yes. It's a human predisposition that simply applies to everyone. It's not that someone in the past sinned and now we are all screwed. It's a feature we gained more than fifty millennia ago, and have the option to invoke this or that way. It's the meta-cognitive mind which can either lead to conscious union with God, or, if one misses the mark of how to use that God-given gift (which is what “to sin” means), cloud one's view of true nature of reality. In other words, our gifts are a double-edged sword that can (also) cause us to see reality as dual, and thus lose sight of truth, true nature of reality and ourselves, and naturally also God. And then the only absolute that we can recognize is, obviously, death.

"There will be a New Heaven and New Earth, likely similar to Eden… but that is for a furture time, not now."

Explain to me, then, why I live in original Eden (Kingdom, Heaven, etc.) for more than a decade. Here and now. And as I said many times, not as a matter of faith, belief, rational conclusion, or some emotional sentiment. Not even as an empirical observation. For me, it's truth and reality as plain as day. Sure, Eden will be fully restored only when there will be no individual who cannot see that Eden never went anywhere. But it really never went anywhere. That's the Good News, Jeff -- the Kingdom is already among us, within, no matter where we look or go (hence you cannot say “‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is’” as Luke 17:20–21 recollects). It’s always at hand, just waiting to be seen and recognized. And it was always the case, whether you believe me or not.

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