The Fall

Like you, I spent a lifetime wondering about the story in the garden and the meanings of some things that were not clear to us. I simply believed without question.

Recently, I've come to understand something so clearly and I think we all need to see through this cloudy glass.

There are 3 clues, in the Bible, to explain the truth to us. One is knowing 'the sons of God saw the daughters of man'....Knowing angels cannot procreate, something had to change in order for them to procreate in this mortal life.  We learn in the New Testament, 'they left their original habitat'. We also learn 'we will be like Him...we will see Him as He is' which means we will be changed into the existence that Jesus is after the ascension. Going back to the garden, we read where they 'realized' they were naked. You and I know that this can't have much meaning in the mortal sense, considering married couples see each other naked all the time. So what changed?

I now realize Adam and Eve were in the same existence that Jesus is today, which it not a mortal existence. It is what we've referred to as 'celestial body'. When the original two sinned against God, they took on the sin of mortality, they became what we are now today. It explains why God made them clothing of skins. He had to teach them how to live in this mortal existence. It also explains why no children were born until after they lost their first home.

Most of all, it explains why God (a celestial being) had to be born into being a mortal being in order to pay the price to regain what we lost.  More than that, it explains what Jesus was talking about when He referred to the Kingdom of God (being here and now). Jesus had to reverse the original damage by becoming what Adam had become, then through the victory over death, return to what Adam was before the fall. In this manner, we were given an avenue by which to return to what we were originally created to be. In order for us to regain what was lost (entirely), this mortal body must die. Some will be mysteriously changed into that form when Jesus calls us up. Either way, this mortal body must be shed before we can again be what Adam was.

We are stuck in this mortal form until the fulfillment of all things. It is ordained. In the meantime, we can learn how to operate in our true existence although restrained by mortal eyes. Our existence, as we know it, comes to us from the time of birth through the senses of the mortal body: sight, sound, feel, experiences. Until we connect with the creator, that's all we know of our existence but through Jesus, we can learn how to function even within the limitations of this mortality.

If we could still see the repercussions of our prayers, we might be encouraged but we can't. Because we can't, we have to simply operate through faith.  This is why there was (and is) so much emphasis on the importance of being born again. The Holy Spirit helps us to bridge that gap until we personally are transformed into our original state.

As long as Jesus walked this earth in mortal form, He Himself had to have the Holy Spirit. Only after His ascension, and He no longer had to operate with the Holy Spirit, could the Holy Spirit return to this mortal world and indwell in each and every believer.

For me, this has opened my eyes to what the Lord taught, concerning operating in faith. You don't have to 'feel' it for it to be true. It's impossible for us to experience the realities and force of our words.  Believing, is the engine. Our problem is keeping that engine going. Distraction causes us to walk away from that we have spoken.