Riffin' On the Goddess [Timeline] (The Feminine Temptation; For that of a general increase of life...in the Garden...)

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16 Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

                This one is hilariously easy to misinterpret at a glance, which itself betrays a cultural failing of sorts regarding the lay people’s level of consciousness regarding “sin” in the grand scheme of things. Sin, as presented both here as well as in the creation myth of Eden, is a universal orienting force, the avoidance/effective use of which would allow the humans to “be fruitful and multiply”. You see, sin “entered the world through one man”, “Adam”, as stated here, but it was “surely” “in the world” “before” “the law” (God forbidding Adam and Eve from eating of the tree of the fruit of knowledge) “was given”…sin was a part of the creation God already had in mind before there was an Eve, before there was an Adam even…

                And from the get-go, sin is seen as a fallacy of sorts, if you use your critical thinking skills. God is the source of the impulse to eat of the tree of the fruit of knowledge…the act of creating the snake and manifesting the temptation is itself but an echo of the desire which is already evident, unwittingly…in fact, the tree is a manifestation of the very loneliness which overtook Adam and led to the creation of Eve… it is that which needs to be, that which shaped the eventual creation (man and woman, the animals, the trees, etc.) and its first emanation is not as temptation but as general suffering/lack… anything other than a sense of utter heavenly bliss. This is what propels the cosmos, what brings change to the affairs of eternity, and the change being framed here is that of creation…life forms will be born only to enter a material matrix which somehow ensures their eternal existence… somehow suffering/lack pre-dates the unfolding events of the material matrix although it is construed as primarily of the material matrix…in reality, we  are led to assume it’s the psychological state which caused God to create Adam, and which drives the continued creation of life across the generations… lack…lonliness…a sense of being incomplete…as the Catholics have so lovingly framed it, “sin”…

As above, so below.

                The academic framings, it should be stressed, regarding sin deviate far from the cultural awareness regarding it. They really did frame it lovingly in regards to the real structure, but whether that’s what is playing out in churches across weeks is a different story…

                Imagine saying something like “death entered the world through one man”… "sin entered the world through one man”…it doesn’t exactly sound like they’re saying “the only reason people get a chance to be born only to have the experience of the mortal death is because Adam chose to “sin” by disobeying “God’s command”, ultimately proving that grace is the way of the material matrix, and that even the disaster that is sin is bound in such a way that it serves the purposes of unfolding lives across generations…” but that is what they are actually saying in this bible passage. A lot of people without comprehensive awareness read this passage as a condemnation of the Man who brought “death” and “sin” into the world, Adam, but in fact if he didn’t do as much, there would be no opportunity for people to have eternal life in heaven, to ever be born, so these things must be in service to the institution of eternal life.

                 This passage appears to be saying some really heavy stuff about needing to redeem one’s life…they are not talking in regards to moral purity, but in regards to physical vulnerability. The example of Christ being stressed here is simply surrounding one’s will to God’s will in the moment…surrendering their entire life… and the acute results of this are the undoing of the very effects of physical death/consequence itself. They’re stressing that Adam’s necessary sin puts people in a power dynamic with God in which they need to escape the suffering that is just out there in the world that is forced onto people no matter what their moral caliber is… they are forced to turn towards God for compassion and relief, and they receive it when they do. Today’s passage construes the human condition as a necessary one, but as one that should be transcended on this side of life through spiritual practice/adhering to Christ’s teachings. It’s just unfortunately…really, really easy to misinterpret this passage in a way that disses Adam, which disses sin and suffering as impractical/without merit even… and which encourages a rabid attachment to Christ that doesn’t necessarily elucidate the spirit of his teachings regarding how one should attach themselves to God.

                Look at what these people did… “20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”  … they gave out the first hits for free…they allowed you to open up a tab even though you don’t have income…they straight up shephered us, unwittingly, into a whole life. That’s savage…

                They knew that their nips were showing… 

(As in, Eve’s temptation in Eden, while a violation of decree, is in accord with what God wants/desires, making it arguably the first “Goddess” act…that which brings on the very game of right and wrong)

Young Sir, we’ve been trying to reach you about an opportunity to become Whole…