The Right Choice Pt. 5

Now you may think that Paul only meant his advice for temporary purposes, while they where in distress, but this is not true.

Paul was not a Pharisee, for he was a Roman citizen. He could not have been both at the same time. Since he was not a Pharisee, he was not a follower of Torah and knew little of it. As a Roman citizen, he would be quite familiar with the mystery religion and Gnosticism. What we had here was an introduction of a Gnostic idea, which was made to look Jewish. What every nation of people had was their form of Mithraism. Paul just gave the Hebrews their own version of Mithraism. A book to read that help you understand why I think that Paul was not a Pharisee would be, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity¡¨ by Hyam Maccoby, written in 1986.

Does the Torah ever advise people not to get married for reasons of distress? When the Israelites were going into captivity into Babylon they were instructed to marry and have children, (Jeremiah 29:6) that captivity was pretty distressful. When they were entering the Promised Land they were not instructed to not marry. They were going to war right away. In Joshua 1:14 we read that the Ruebenites, the Gadites and the half tribe of the Manasseh were instructed to leave their wives behind and go to war. They were not told to not marry. If Oral law is based on judgments, then judgments are based on precedents. Here we have a precedent and this precedent did not discourage marriage.

YHWH has given us the command to rule over the animals, be they birds, fish or land born creatures. The first thing we are to do is multiply, then we subdue and then we rule anything that works to hinder that is not of YHWH.

The Hebrew word for subdue is Kabash - 3533 (SNS) this words means, to subject, subdue, force, keep under, bring into bondage, make subservient.

The Hebrew word for rule is Radah - 7287 (SNS) this word means to rule, have dominion, dominate, tread down.

The animals are here to serve us, man. We are not here to serve the animals. Anything that would seek to turn that around would be of the creation and not YHWH. This precept is in line with first and second command of the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20: 3-6.

YHWH, the creator, has instructed us, the creation, to serve, worship Him, the creator, and in similar fashion the creation is to serve us.

If you notice it says that we are not to make any graven images. If YHWH does not want us to have graven images of His creation in our homes would He want then on His walls in His temple?

Consider this, YHWH said this of Himself in Numbers 23:19. "Elohim is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?¡¨ Is He not saying that men are liars? If He become a man, would He become a liar? It also says that He is not a son of Adam that He should repent. Is He not saying that all sons of Adam need to repent? If so would He become a son of Adam and then need to repent? In talking about why YHWH would not be a man, we have to consider how Elohim made man. When Elohim man made, did He make then well and perfect or did He make them imperfect and was not disappointed by it?

In Genesis 1:31 we read, ”And Elohim saw everything that He had made and behold good and it became evening and became morning the sixth day.¨

What I wrote here is the literal translation. I left out all the added words. The added words (it was) before ¡very good¡¨. If “it was¨ is not there, does it belong there and if it is not there, what is very good? Maybe what Elohim is trying to say is that the making of the whole of creation is very good and not the creation, itself is very good, thus giving Him the glory and not giving glory to creation.

The next point of interest is Genesis 2:25 and the adam man and his wife, woman were both naked and were not ashamed. The Hebrew word for naked is arowm (6174) (6175, subtle, shrewd, crafty, sly, prudent, sensible) both of these words are derived from the root word (6191, aram, which means to be subtle, shrewd, crafty, beware, take crafty counsel).

The Hebrew word for ashamed is bavush (954), which means ashamed confounded, confused, shamed, delayed and dry.

If we were to translate this verse according to or with the understanding of the underlying meaning of the word naked, we would come away with the understanding that Adam was made with a sin nature. He was not perfect. The proof of this is that he was the first to sin, not Eve. For Adam’s sin was this; he added to the instruction that YHWH had given to him concerning the eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Adam broke this command spelled out for in Deuteronomy 4:2. “You shall not add to the word that I command you nor shall you subtract from it, to observe the commandments of YHWH.¨

Adam added to the command of YHWH. He added, “You shall not touch the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. It was no sin to touch it, only to eat it. By adding the extra command he took a choice away from Eve. Her choice to Obey YHWH as Adam had the choice to obey YHWH. Adam had the choice to obey YHWH, but Eve only had the choice to obey Adam. She only knew that commands that Adam gave her and if they were not exactly as YHWH had given them and she disobeyed Adam, but not YHWH, then she would not experience what she would if she had disobeyed YHWH. At that point she would distrust YHWH and with that distrust comes the disobedience.

When the whisperer came to Eve, to tempt her, what gave him the right to test her? How did know that he would have an avenue whereby she would listen to him?

When Adam told Eve that she would die if she even touched the tree, he gave the twin, YHWH’s twin an instrument whereby he could produce doubt in the mind and heart of Eve. All the whisperer had to do was get Eve to touch the tree. Once she touched the tree and noticed that she did not die or realize her nakedness, and then she would doubt the rest of the command as well. Since she doubted the touching part of the command, she would also doubt the eating part. Then she could persuade Adam to eat the fruit as well.

So you see sin did not enter the world through the eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Sin was already present, just the effects of sin started at the eating of that fruit. Hence, that is why they were naked, thus being naked is a symbol to having sin your life.