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Covetousness is the Story of Adam and Eve
Many secular people in government, politics, academia, religion etc. have failed to realize that as a christian nation americans draw upon the wisdom of the bible to see through the deceit of covetousness. A covetousness that now flourishes in the political and economic idealism of our secular society. Take for example the very first story in the bible, Adam and Eve. The story of Adam and Eve highlights the perils of covetousness exactly.
In the story both Adam and Eve had a fleeting few moments in paradise until they were exiled for the duration of their life because of their own stupidity in believing in the utopian lies spoken by the serpent. Those utopian lies spoken by the serpent were the lies of covetousness that created a desire to be like God by eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Today that same evil serpent that existed in the Garden of Eden is now embodied in our political and economic idealism for it promises a utopia if only everyone would indulge their own covetousness and simply take someone else's possessions through governmental or corporate fiat. Predictably the result today is the same as in the story of Adam and Eve. We've experienced a short time in paradise but now we are facing a lifetime of misery after squandering God's blessings chasing after the utopian lies inherent in the covetousness of political and/or economic idealism.
The serpent in the Garden of Eden used man's ability to desire, which God created, against God's right of possession, i.e the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Evil then is creating a desire to covet that which we do not possess. God gave man the ability to create our own desires as a precursor in developing our creative ability. This creative ability, by virtue of desire, is the goodness inherent in God that is now given to man as part of our being created in God's image. But the serpent used man's ability to desire to create evil instead, i.e. covetousness.
It should be noted that God did not hide his grandeur from Adam and Eve in order to prevent their coveting it for themselves. The bible shows that the burden of covetousness is born entirely by the individual who covets, and not by the object or person that is coveted. Political and economic idealism seeks to shift the burden of covetousness from the individual who is doing the coveting, to the individual who has something to covet.
God Bless
note:
The serpent was the first to advocate for social and economic justice by getting Adam and Eve to covet, and then take, what wasn't theirs!
It is interesting that covetousness was able to flourish in the minds of both Adam and Eve even though they wanted for nothing. All of their needs were provided for by God except for them being their own God.
Satan so coveted the ability to be his own God that he got Adam and Eve to sin to see if the knowledge of good and evil would bring this about. Ever since that failed experiment of social and economic justice in the Garden of Eden Satan has continued to drag many down with him into hell trying to achieve the same end, that is being our own God.
Don't be lured into coveting the ability to be your own God like Satan. When Jesus Christ became man he gave up his right to be his own God and instead relied on the indwelling Holy Spirit to provide the presence of God as it was in the Garden of Eden. He also gave up his right as God to use his knowledge of good and evil to judge others which is why he said his kingdom is not of this world. In heaven God the Father restores his son Jesus Christ back to the status of God (which Satan so coveted) and now Jesus Christ can use his knowledge of good and evil once again (for which being God he always had) in order to judge others.
When Jesus Christ, the son of God, became man he gave up his ability to be his own God to the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ also relinquish his right to use his knowledge of good and evil to judge others and instead used it to judge himself on the cross.
Jesus Christ came to this earth as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and left as the tree of life.
Old Testament - Acknowledgment of Sin - Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil –The Body of Christ
New Testament - Forgiveness of Sin - The Tree of Life – The Blood of Christ
By accepting Jesus Christ as our savior and redeemer we give up our covetous desire to be our own God that the sin of Adam placed in us. And instead we gain the forgiveness offered by the death and resurrection of God's son Jesus Christ (God become man) and life eternal back with the one God in heaven!
Many secular people in government, politics, academia, religion etc. have failed to realize that as a christian nation americans draw upon the wisdom of the bible to see through the deceit of covetousness. A covetousness that now flourishes in the political and economic idealism of our secular society. Take for example the very first story in the bible, Adam and Eve. The story of Adam and Eve highlights the perils of covetousness exactly.
In the story both Adam and Eve had a fleeting few moments in paradise until they were exiled for the duration of their life because of their own stupidity in believing in the utopian lies spoken by the serpent. Those utopian lies spoken by the serpent were the lies of covetousness that created a desire to be like God by eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Today that same evil serpent that existed in the Garden of Eden is now embodied in our political and economic idealism for it promises a utopia if only everyone would indulge their own covetousness and simply take someone else's possessions through governmental or corporate fiat. Predictably the result today is the same as in the story of Adam and Eve. We've experienced a short time in paradise but now we are facing a lifetime of misery after squandering God's blessings chasing after the utopian lies inherent in the covetousness of political and/or economic idealism.
The serpent in the Garden of Eden used man's ability to desire, which God created, against God's right of possession, i.e the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Evil then is creating a desire to covet that which we do not possess. God gave man the ability to create our own desires as a precursor in developing our creative ability. This creative ability, by virtue of desire, is the goodness inherent in God that is now given to man as part of our being created in God's image. But the serpent used man's ability to desire to create evil instead, i.e. covetousness.
It should be noted that God did not hide his grandeur from Adam and Eve in order to prevent their coveting it for themselves. The bible shows that the burden of covetousness is born entirely by the individual who covets, and not by the object or person that is coveted. Political and economic idealism seeks to shift the burden of covetousness from the individual who is doing the coveting, to the individual who has something to covet.
God Bless
note:
The serpent was the first to advocate for social and economic justice by getting Adam and Eve to covet, and then take, what wasn't theirs!
It is interesting that covetousness was able to flourish in the minds of both Adam and Eve even though they wanted for nothing. All of their needs were provided for by God except for them being their own God.
Satan so coveted the ability to be his own God that he got Adam and Eve to sin to see if the knowledge of good and evil would bring this about. Ever since that failed experiment of social and economic justice in the Garden of Eden Satan has continued to drag many down with him into hell trying to achieve the same end, that is being our own God.
Don't be lured into coveting the ability to be your own God like Satan. When Jesus Christ became man he gave up his right to be his own God and instead relied on the indwelling Holy Spirit to provide the presence of God as it was in the Garden of Eden. He also gave up his right as God to use his knowledge of good and evil to judge others which is why he said his kingdom is not of this world. In heaven God the Father restores his son Jesus Christ back to the status of God (which Satan so coveted) and now Jesus Christ can use his knowledge of good and evil once again (for which being God he always had) in order to judge others.
When Jesus Christ, the son of God, became man he gave up his ability to be his own God to the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ also relinquish his right to use his knowledge of good and evil to judge others and instead used it to judge himself on the cross.
Jesus Christ came to this earth as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and left as the tree of life.
Old Testament - Acknowledgment of Sin - Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil –The Body of Christ
New Testament - Forgiveness of Sin - The Tree of Life – The Blood of Christ
By accepting Jesus Christ as our savior and redeemer we give up our covetous desire to be our own God that the sin of Adam placed in us. And instead we gain the forgiveness offered by the death and resurrection of God's son Jesus Christ (God become man) and life eternal back with the one God in heaven!
