Freedom to Discover
Humanity is on a journey. Collectively we are discoverers. Individually the same is often true. When God told Adam that he could eat from any tree in the Garden (except one), God was offering Adam the freedom of discovery.
The freedom to learn and grow.
The freedom to be wrong about something and make adjustments.
The freedom to learn responsibility and consequence.
The freedom to be true to ones self, without shame, hiding and covering up.
The freedom to be honest. Honesty and openness leads to integrity.
When you are a discoverer you find that very few things are written in stone. Conclusions can be drawn but they often need to be reframed and reconfigured. A discoverer often needs to reframe a finding in a larger scope of findings. A discoverer doesn’t know it all. A discoverer is not designed to know it all. Rather he or she is designed to discover. Herein there is responsibility and consequence, but not accountability. Accountability (as if one were in God's position) is for the discoverer, is a sentence of death. It is sin consciousness.
This means hiding and shame. It means covering up. It means pretence. It means feelings of condemnation. It provokes a deep felt need to artificially prove something about ones self. Then the outward comparisons of appearance become inflated. The inherent value of a person is called into question by looking to ethnicity, sectarianism, gender superiority, and other such things.
The “written in stone” mentality had its day. The “tribal thinking” had its day. The “ego man” had his place in his time. Mind you, this thinking is still prevalent today, but still we are discovering how to put it behind us.
Here is a possible reason why. The fulfillment of all things written, (Luke 21:20-22). If we are following the Bible closely we will have to put into grave question about 1800 years or more of “tradition”. Looking purely to the scriptures we can confidently determine that we are already in the promised new age.
We now have substantial evidence that all of the New Testament scriptures were written prior to AD 70, prior to the foretold first century destruction of Jerusalem and the holy temple. We can now make sense of why they then taught that the end of the age was already coming upon them in that generation, the generation that Jesus spoke to.
Traditional views have missed the end of the age because they were looking to the end of the journey. Tradition was looking to the end of discovery. But the end foretold in scripture was the end of that which was holding us back. When Paul wrote his epistles he spoke of the then “passing away” of that which was written in ink and stone. This “passing away” was consummated in the destruction of the holy temple in AD 70.
Why was this so important? Why would this illustrate an age changing event? Because it showed that human potential could not “house” God. It showed that human potential could not bring God close to us. It visibly deconstructed an underdeveloped paradigm of life and relationship. It showed that such a paradigm no longer had a “standing”. Not one stone was left upon another. And so a new world was created. A new age began! God’s new age. An age of discovery.
A resurrection took place. The natural man (in Adam) who tried to make human potential into something that it was not died like a seed in the ground and rose up a spiritual man (in Christ), where God’s possibilities can bless humanity. Humanity was reborn. You bible people will notice that 1 Corinthians chapter 15 does not speak of the resurrection of the “bodies” but rather the resurrection of the “body”. There are only two “men” in this chapter, Adam and Christ. Christ was the last Adam.
The meaning behind this can be summed up in two words, Consciousness and Relationship. These two words frame much of our discovery journey. On this site you will find many “basics” and “down to earth” articles and writings. You will also find a lot of deep stuff and challenging articles and writings. Hopefully you will find something that relates to your discovery journey.
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