In The Road Less Travelled Scott Peck described original sin in the Garden of Eden as a kind of laziness, thereby holding up all sin up as having a form of laziness in its incipient state. He said that Eve’s failure to question the serpent when it made proclamations on behalf of God, delivering a cross-examination as it were, represented a kind of intellectual laziness. As for Adam, he similarly went along with Eve’s bite first and ask questions later deportment. Peck then went on to describe many of the human problems that he encountered in his psychiatric practice as stemming from a similar kind of laziness, an unwillingness or seeming incapacity to push pause, engage the brain and ask the right questions before making certain choices in life.
Adam was "p****Y-whipped". However, Eve being the only game in town, it's not surprising he went along with her poor choice. (That is intended to be humor, folks, NOT misogyny. ;-)
Well, humor often contains a great deal of truth. To emphasize your comment, Adam was not deceived by the devil as Eve was. He knew that Eve’s decision would result in her death. If she was going to die he wanted to die as well.
Yes, I agree with you and so would many Rabbis. Adam loved Eve and went with her in his disobedience, sadly then, as is often still the case for (hu)man, ;) he blame’s YeHoVaH for giving him the woman - all God’s fault and from time immemorial they’ve said, let’s keep her locked in subjugation as has happened throughout Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It’s no wonder the pendulum has swung so hard in the other direction through the feminists of the last 100+ years while humans seek an answer without obedience to their Creator.
You can see though, the seed of sin in him too, regardless of what he did or didn't do.
God first spoke to him after the Fall, and he immediately tried to exculpate himself from blame, by saying, "The woman that YOU gave to be with me, she gave me of the fruit, and I did eat."
BOTH OF THEM wove garments made of fig leaves to cover their nakedness, so this suggests to me that both of them had sinned with Lucifer - you know even to the present day how evil is frequently expressed in the lusting of one male after another, and Lucifer is the personification of evil.
We have to understand that in Hebrew thought forms (remembering that the book was inspired by YeHoVaH, written by and for Jews after all, Gentiles only got the message through Rav Shaul (Apostle Paul) much later) the whole Eden experience was a setup. If it wasn’t, YeHoVaH is a village idiot, and he’s certainly not. HaSatan is not His enemy, he’s ours, the book of Job spells that out quite clearly in the first chapter. In regards to Eve’s and Adam’s disobedience, it must be understood as the Apostle Yochanan (John) describes their natures, or characters as designed by the Creator and made in HIS IMAGE as being somewhat flawed from the beginning for a reason, an image of the Creator but not the ridgy-didge or dinky-di as we would say here in Australia. A work in progress.
Yochanan in his letter of 1 John 2:16 points out that there were three things that caused them to sin, those three things that were innate in their characters FROM THE BEGINNING as flesh and blood with what we call a yetzer hatov and a yetzer hara, both a good and bad nature. This is all from God, not from a tree they ate (if it was a tree, lots of interpretations there from sex with the devil to magic mushies) which had now made them wise and as God said, “now they have become as one of us knowing good and evil.” It wasn’t an uh-oh moment on His part, it was an acknowledgment of success in His plan.
No sin. No saviour. From
The beginning remember, He was there and the plan was in progress for His eventual arrival.
In Genesis 3:6-7 the scripture states that Eve “saw the tree as being good for food [lust of the flesh], delightful to the eye [lust of the eyes] and a tree desirable to make one wise [the pride of life].”God did that for a reason. He is about creating children, but as all children we have to learn through hands on experimentation, like all children do. Princes & princesses must be ruled before they can become Kings & Queens.
Through our mistakes we learn (hopefully!) to rectify the wrong, repent or apologize and make amends to do better, not for salvation but for our sanctification, a big difference that some churches get wrong. Our innate nature is to sin, not with some imbued “original sin” that we all got stuck with thanks to our oh-so disobedient parents. It was more like “original death” that we inherited from our first parents - blocked from eating of the tree of Life - and as YeHoVaH said “in dying you shall die”.
Herein came haSatan to our original parents in being economical with the actual truth when he exclaimed to the inexperienced and innocent Eve that she “wouldn’t SURELY die”. No, not straight away. The deceiver is very clever and remember, Eve had no prior knowledge or experience of deception, she was the ultimate naïveté, though as we comprehend she was somewhat flawed intentionally.
Isn’t it always our misdirected urges and desires that get us into trouble and lead us down to a wrong outcome? This is who we are innately, not good, we are unfortunately, quite evil as Jeremiah 17:9 said, “The heart of man is evil above all things and wicked to the point of desperation. Who can know it?”
As we accept Yeshua (Jesus) as Lord and Saviour we enter into a rebirth of sorts (until the resurrection or transformation), a time to wash our robes, a time to learn who it is that saved us, why YeHoVaH saved us from the death cycle of sin’s punishment through His Son’s age lasting sacrifice, and we learn who our Father is, what He saved us for and what He has intended for our future as we submit to His commands. There are well over 1000 commands, statutes and regulations in the Messianic Scriptures (New Testament) alone, so keeping or not keeping the Sinai Law is not enough for Messianics/Christians if we are to emulate the Messiah (Christ), and meanwhile, Baruch HaShem (praise His Name) that He is not holding our sins against us. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 and 5:14-15.
Also, there is no understanding of ‘eternity’ in ancient Hebrew thought form, the phrase is “age” or the Greek equivalent “aion” or “eon”. The ages are like a picture, they are framed, they have a start and a finish and YeHoVaH’s ongoing creation and lifecycle is age lasting upon age lasting, not forever and ever or the modern phrase of ‘eternity’. Yes it matters.
One day, Philippians 2:9-11 says EVERY KNEE WILL BOW. That’s everyone folks. Not some. All! Otherwise, Yeshua failed us and His Father.
"For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit".
Not that tired old story. Ha! That is not about haSatan or a legendary Lucifer at all. Once again, do some historical reading and get some enlightenment because you believe children’s fables. This entire chapter was about a particular king who exalted himself, but you’re brainwashed with an old creed and need deliverance from it, lol.
You immediately go wrong by saying that the scriptures were written by and for jews.
"Gentiles only came later."
The jew-word is generally applied to a descendant of Judah - just one of the tribes, so clearly, the scriptures were not written only by jews, but by various other tribal scribes and prophets too.
The word has been weaponized so that the unwary will falsely imagine the jews to be "God's Chosen People," which when you look at their satanic behaviour, no matter the period in history, is clearly not true.
They are in fact descendants not of Adam, but of Lucifer, as the Saviour Himself made clear; ie "Ye are of your father the devil, and his works ye will do."
"He was a murderer from the beginning," a statement which we can only take as being a direct reference to Cain's act with regard to his ( half ) brother, as being instilled in him by his father, ie Lucifer.
Genesis 3, 15 makes explicit the two seeds which were on the earth at that time, and states explicitly that one would always vie with the other.
jews actually entered the Promised Land in the late 2nd century BC, when the High Priest Hyrcanus conquered the Edomites, ie the descendants not of Judah, but of Esau.
Esau had gone to live in Idumaea, and so was not present in Egypt when the children of Israel went to live there - they acknowledge this themselves at John 8, 33.
By the time of the Incarnation, they were fully conversant with Jacob/Israel's religion, and had subverted it, and gained Roman support to take it over, so as to control these unruly people, who had the temerity to worship another god than Caesar.
Caiaphas and Annas, then, were Edomites, not Israelites, which explains their detestation of the Son of God Who had appeared in their midst.
Perhaps instead of saying “Jews” (with a capital “J”) I should have said Hebrews for someone as nitpicking as you espouse to be. You are uneducated and ill informed on these issues, an obvious antisemite with replacement theology as your creed, a bankrupt ideal that damns all Hebrews to death.
Moses who penned the Torah from YeHoVaH was a Levite and Israel as the twelve tribes of Israel including Judah had been in Egypt for approximately 400 years. Their father is not Lucifer, a vile characterisation of haSatan which is a vile legend perpetrated on a blind and dumb people who worshipped the religion of Rome, not the religion of the Christ through the Hebrews and who was Jewish. If you hate Jews (capital “J”) then you’re already cursed as that Abrahamic curse is about ALL OF HIS DESCENDANTS THROUGH ISAAC as YeHoVaH intended. Put the Zohar away on the bookshelf and read your Bible instead.
The ‘will’ to live is strong. Adam would have instinctively carried on. The beat of his heart would have propelled him, with remorse and pain, to suffer alone. IMO.
You confirm my claim about Adam, then. I guess love at first sight under those conditions is understandable. Eternal life without a mate would not have been very desirable. I feel the same about my wife.
Scripture makes it clear that man and woman are of one kind, ie she was taken from him, and was therefore called "woman," so whatever she did, was in him too.
As far as we can tell, neither repented of the sin they committed, and so those who expect to meet them one day in Paradise will probably be disappointed.
Those who were born before Jesus will be caught up to heaven in the last days…they are waiting for his return so they can be delivered from Abraham’s bosom.
1. Abraham’s Bosom (the place of the righteous dead before Christ’s resurrection)
• Luke 16:22–23 – “The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.”
👉 This suggests that before Jesus opened heaven, the righteous dead were in a place of comfort with Abraham, waiting.
2. Jesus opening the way to heaven
• Ephesians 4:8–10 – “When he ascended on high he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
👉 Many interpret this as Jesus taking the righteous souls who had been “captive” in Abraham’s bosom up into heaven after His resurrection.
• Hebrews 11:39–40 – “And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.”
👉 The Old Testament faithful were waiting for the completion of Christ’s work.
3. The resurrection of the dead at the last days
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 – “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”
👉 The righteous dead (including those who lived before Jesus) are raised at His return.
• John 5:28–29 – “Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.”
4. Final Deliverance
• Daniel 12:2 – “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
👉 Even in the Old Testament, the hope of resurrection and final deliverance was foretold.
• Before Christ, the faithful dead were comforted in Abraham’s bosom (Luke 16).
• Jesus, through His death and resurrection, opened the way for them to enter heaven (Ephesians 4, Hebrews 11).
• At His second coming, all the righteous dead (before and after Christ) will rise and be “caught up” with Him (1 Thessalonians 4, John 5, Daniel 12).
Not very clear. Seems a fair amount of confusion. Maybe the basic theological (eschatological) idea goes as follows: Immortal souls transcend the death of the flesh body. We enjoy a post-mortem "continuity of consciousness." The state of consciousness in that post mortem time determines the ideational world the soul experiences. Certain degrees of awareness bestow a heaven-like existence, other degrees of lack of awareness result in hellish conditions. The state or status of consciousness is not determined by gold stars on chart (OT view of the law) but rather by one's spiritual formation, a more mystical concept, a concept one finds in the Gospel of John, for example.
You make the error of thinking that the soul is immortal.
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die" is God's rebuke to you.
But for your reassurance, there is no "hellish condition" prescribed for those who lack the faith that God requires in order to please Him; as we read, "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day, his thoughts perish."
Perhaps more famously, John 3, 16; which alike refers to perishing.
The wages of sin is death, not "hellish conditions."
As to some sort of congruence between "gold stars on a chart" and what God requires of us; the Law was only given so that we might understand that we can never even get one gold star, "All our thoughts are only continually wicked."
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
"There is none that doeth good, no, not one."
This is why we need a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord; and not gold stars on a chart, as the jews would have you believe, and indeed all those who believe in a gospel of works.
The very nature of a soul includes immortality. A soul is not that which is transitory or temporal. A soul partakes of divinity that renders it as Spirit, as other than Flesh. The nature of soul death, or second death, is more akin to sleeping (unconsciousness), a term often used.
Though you reject the silly OT Theology, gold stars on a chart, the Law, you nonetheless apply OT Theology to the discussion. As with all too many Christians today, you conflate OT Theology with Christianity, where it does not apply. Crashing error.
There are indeed states of hellish existence. This is not only scripturally noted, but also a matter of practical observation. A soul, once released from the flesh body, enters an ideational state/realm/world which may involve hellish ideation.
Psalm 146:4, with which you lead off, is obviously OT. (To my point.) That passage does not say your thoughts or life perishes, but rather the worldly planning of princes perish. It is a comparison of Divine rule with worldly political rule. Misinterpreted OT puts a double whammy on a lack of understanding. The passage has nothing to do with the immortality of the soul.
The immortality of the soul is so basic to Christian faith that rejecting such a foundational concept places you in some other discussion. I can understand why you would not want to "get into a lengthy discussion about theology."
I don't really want to get into a lengthy discussion about theology with you here; but I have suggested that "the righteous dead" that you refer to should not include Adam and Eve, as there is no sign they ever repented of their miscegeny.
The "Abraham's bosom" story cannot be used doctrinally, as it must be allied with another scripture saying the same thing - and there isn't one.
There's a great deal of symbolism in ancient records which one needs to be very careful wnen considering to form an opinion. The story of Adam and Eve comes across as such.
Not to mention OT Theology must be approached with caution. There are those who objected to OT Theology and presented a different theology, a NT Theology with its New Covenant. Oh, yeah, Jesus did that. Was put on trial, found guilty of blasphemy, and was crucified (for blasphemy). So, one must proceed with caution when one jumps into rejecting that symbolism.
The Original Sin is abundantly clear from the scriptures - Eve had sex with the serpent - Lucifer, of course.
So then as now, mankind's besetting sin is to place the lusts of the eyes and the flesh before the commandments of God.
I guarantee that even to the present day, you will not encounter a single female, whether old or young, whose primary interest is not in clothes, fashion, make-up, shoes, and handbags.
Again false. The scripture may insinuate a great sin…but it doesn’t say sex without any evidence or further proof. It is still a theory or claim. The word should never be altered. Saying it was sex would be altering Gods Word.
Also your claim that there are no righteous women in the world, is just false. My primary interest is God. So there’s one female right here!
Scripture is more subtle than you are - it tells you without overtly telling you.
We know that sex with a forbidden other species, ie the angels - was the original sin, because of the later mention at Genesis 3, 15, when the seed of the serpent and the seed of Adam are explicitly stated as being at war with each other for all time.
Further evidence is found in the story of what transpired between Cain and Abel - you would say "That was just a coincidence," but scripture is never coincidental.
The Lord Jesus Christ referred to the truth which you do not want to hear when He told the jews, "Ye are of your father the devil, and his works ye will do. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING."
He is clearly referring to this very action of Cain's.
Cain was the son of Lucifer and Eve - unless you think Lucifer was only interested in her because of their shared love of gardening.
You have to see these verses as being part of a message from various places in scripture.
Combination of the threads leads to the golden cloth.
Genesis 3,15 is unequivocal about the two seeds.
And if two seeds, then two different fathers.
Note that although Eve was described by Adam as being the mother of all living, he never described himself as being the father of all living - because he clearly wasn't.
It is the only logical way to understand why Cain did what he did.
And from the OP himself, this whole article is about using your brain.
Her biological propensities lead her towards having children and - in some cases - a husband too, and so she must look after the fruit of her womb, but she will always start from her obsession with the unimportant and glittery things in life.
Oh, bless your heart! While biology might nudge us toward nurturing, it’s the deep, joyful intimacy of a long-term partnership—built on love, trust, communication, respect and shared dreams—that truly lights up a woman’s world, far beyond any fleeting sparkle of glittery things.
And when we’re ready to take that sacred journey at life’s end, it’s the strength and depth of our bonds with others—those woven through shared laughter, tears, and unwavering support—that matter most, not a single handbag in sight.
Oh, darling, your view betrays a life starved of true companionship’s warmth. While you imagine secret stashes of frivolous trinkets, a woman rich in love cherishes the shared glances, quiet moments, and unshakeable bond with her partner—treasures your wardrobe of cynicism could never hold. Reflecting on what truly matters to me as a human being brings me joy; how sad you have missed it!
In the wise words of Tamara Vineyard from today’s earlier Substacks (Midwestern Doctor / Autism is Ischemic Stroke), “…IGNORANCE IS CONTAGIOUS.” We’d do well to stop spreading it; use th brains G-D.YWH gave us, & remember: prayer fires up th brain, too.
Sorry John, but I think you are a little 'off' here. Adam does not look lazy to me, he looks fully formed but lifeless/listless. God is giving him (spiritual) life. The message is that the life of the spirit of man comes from God, not from pure biology as in the (rest of) the the animal kingdom. Nothing to do with the brain - although I agree with your advice on using the brain if one has a brain.
You are on to something here. Issues of faith have to do with Spirit. Matters of the brain have to do with materialistic pseudo-science. Two domains that are joined with good theology and good science, but that is not the state of affairs today. As it is, we have Separate Magisterium.
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” ?Thomas Edison
God reaches out to us through the pineal gland. God invites us to reason together with Him. Adam isn't lazy though. He has a very well formed muscular body that can only come from using those muscles. He is not a frail man. But, to awaken into life we much reach out and accept the touch that God reaches out to touch us with.
The pineal gland? Really? Are you sure? Maybe not good theology, not good science. A gland. A piece of matter? Flesh? Hm. Gonna pass on that explanation.
I'm just explaining what the painter was trying to express and what has been understood for the millennia and especially during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Even Rene Descartes made this claim. No one is asking you to agree or disagree with whether the pineal gland is what helps us connect with God. However, its clear this was what the painter was trying to express. Our God given physical body is the hardware by which our spirit interacts within this physical world. It is also the means by which we connect with the spiritual. Who knows for sure, but the mystics and philosophers of the past sure thought it was.
Right. No one asked me. Nor did they ask you. But I did, nonetheless, state my disagreement, as you stated your hypothesis. I do not believe the painter was trying to make a statement about a pineal gland. No doubt the body, the flesh, is a conduit to the physical world. It is an instrument for identity, communication, action. It is not, however, a means of connecting with the spiritual, but rather an impediment in most instances. (See Romans.) As an immortal soul, I do not need a body to connect with my essence or with the divine. (Otherwise, I would have to drag a rotting corpse into the Afterlife.) No, the mystics and philosophers did not prattle on about a pineal gland. In fact, the early theologians, marrying theology with Idealism, had a more sophisticated view. (See Origen, Augustine, Bonaventure. Plotinus.)
Beautiful illustration of SHAPE OF BRAIN!...Thanks...this is just amazing! There is always more to learn.Dr. McCullough.. I am Interested in your take on the "destruction of the pineal gland...according to top Italian pathologists....IS THAT REAL?
A quotation from the jew Harold Wallace Rosenthal places your remark in its appropriate context.
"Jewish people do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer, and we are his chosen people."
The God of the Old Testament is the same as the God of the New Testament, ie YHVH, whose Name translates from the very letters used to form it, "Behold the hand, Behold the nail."
I had read Rosenthal's exposure some years ago. He was not exposing it out of goodness but because he thought they were unstoppable at that point.
If people just read with comprehension and reflection the writings in the Old Testament, Torah and Talmud as well as Netanyahu and his Cabinet's the see the same Essence: Satan!
The OT of course was given to Moses by God Himself, and so its pronouncements are righteous and holy, but the jews pay their respects to the Talmud, which is the - as you say - satanic writings of the sages and rabbis, all of whom Christ denounced.
If you subscribe to the belief that God is omniscient, omnipotent, yet loving and compassionate toward his creation, mankind, then I'd have to agree with you. I can certainly agree that the brutish, lower-than-animals, perverted, sub-human scum of hamas (along with their "civilian-palestinian" co-rapists/killers) are the spawn of Satan. And I am not even religious. islam is the 1400 year old spawn of Satan - not a religion, but a death cult that continues to refuse to enter the modern age along with true religions. [I do not capitalize islam, muslims, etc. as I feel that shows undue respect.]
Ouch. That hurts. The horrors of evil are not relegated to only one kind of religious expression. Even without a moral framework the fairly recent and continuing framework of murderous acts by the ultra evil group under the BANDERA BATTALION comes to mind. (Look up Stephan Bandera, radical militant of Ukrainian Nationalists . And then look up the reason for Putin SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION.). This is my example of what mankind is capable of inflicting upon others of his species.
Hamas was set up and funded by the real villains of the piece, the jews, as a counter to the PLO.
The jewish state, with all its billion-dollar surveillance apparatus, apparently missed the fact of the coming attack, and stood down, purely so as to give themselves casus belli to initiate the genocide which they are carrying out at the moment, under the rubric of "collective guilt."
There is no evidence for the rape and murder of jews, although the jews themselves stated policy was to kill any jewish persons caught up in the attack, so as to prevent them from becoming hostages.
I believe it is called the Hannibal Directive.
To my knowledge, the very Creator Himself never described Palestinians as the spawn of satan - rather, the jews who are still committing genocide against them, including the women and children.
He wasn't speaking to moslems when He said, "Ye are of your father the devil."
Islam itself was a fairly harmless cult until the jews got involved with it, and instituted the idea of jihad, such that it then caught on like wildfire, and was unleashed on the jews' number one enemy, the Christians.
It is amazing art, I am being there. That interpretation is novel to me but looking at it resembles a brain and also it can be a spaceship. The known interpretation is beautiful too, if you focus in the fingers of Creator and creature, God has his finger extend it wanted to touch man but mand has his finger bent as if he doesn't want to touch God or resist to have a relation with Him that is also true.
Usually fear causes most to act foolishly. No jab no work no mask no outing. Hopefully realised no mark no buy and sell is on the way to sent many to hell. Pray to be saves 🙏 🙏
Eww. Ouch. Conflating brain with consciousness. Error message. Flashing. Especially in a religious context. Soul possesses consciousness, which transcends brain/body. Basic premise of religion. Continuity of consciousness, post mortem. Basic. In contrast, consciousness as an emergent property of matter (brain) is the essence of materialism (physicalism). Rather than "you have a brain, use it," it would be more appropriate to say, you can be conscious, wake up.
I believe that Michelangelo was revealing that God's spirit is in man and it interfaces with his mind. His spirit reaches down to pull us up but we are not really interested enough to lift ourselves high enough to meet Him. This idea is best explained in the Urantia Book which purports to be a divine revelation and I believe it is.
In The Road Less Travelled Scott Peck described original sin in the Garden of Eden as a kind of laziness, thereby holding up all sin up as having a form of laziness in its incipient state. He said that Eve’s failure to question the serpent when it made proclamations on behalf of God, delivering a cross-examination as it were, represented a kind of intellectual laziness. As for Adam, he similarly went along with Eve’s bite first and ask questions later deportment. Peck then went on to describe many of the human problems that he encountered in his psychiatric practice as stemming from a similar kind of laziness, an unwillingness or seeming incapacity to push pause, engage the brain and ask the right questions before making certain choices in life.
Adam was "p****Y-whipped". However, Eve being the only game in town, it's not surprising he went along with her poor choice. (That is intended to be humor, folks, NOT misogyny. ;-)
Well, humor often contains a great deal of truth. To emphasize your comment, Adam was not deceived by the devil as Eve was. He knew that Eve’s decision would result in her death. If she was going to die he wanted to die as well.
Yes, I agree with you and so would many Rabbis. Adam loved Eve and went with her in his disobedience, sadly then, as is often still the case for (hu)man, ;) he blame’s YeHoVaH for giving him the woman - all God’s fault and from time immemorial they’ve said, let’s keep her locked in subjugation as has happened throughout Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It’s no wonder the pendulum has swung so hard in the other direction through the feminists of the last 100+ years while humans seek an answer without obedience to their Creator.
But, God would have supplied him with another wife, new and improved. 😅😅😭 Adam was truly a dumb ass.
You can see though, the seed of sin in him too, regardless of what he did or didn't do.
God first spoke to him after the Fall, and he immediately tried to exculpate himself from blame, by saying, "The woman that YOU gave to be with me, she gave me of the fruit, and I did eat."
BOTH OF THEM wove garments made of fig leaves to cover their nakedness, so this suggests to me that both of them had sinned with Lucifer - you know even to the present day how evil is frequently expressed in the lusting of one male after another, and Lucifer is the personification of evil.
We have to understand that in Hebrew thought forms (remembering that the book was inspired by YeHoVaH, written by and for Jews after all, Gentiles only got the message through Rav Shaul (Apostle Paul) much later) the whole Eden experience was a setup. If it wasn’t, YeHoVaH is a village idiot, and he’s certainly not. HaSatan is not His enemy, he’s ours, the book of Job spells that out quite clearly in the first chapter. In regards to Eve’s and Adam’s disobedience, it must be understood as the Apostle Yochanan (John) describes their natures, or characters as designed by the Creator and made in HIS IMAGE as being somewhat flawed from the beginning for a reason, an image of the Creator but not the ridgy-didge or dinky-di as we would say here in Australia. A work in progress.
Yochanan in his letter of 1 John 2:16 points out that there were three things that caused them to sin, those three things that were innate in their characters FROM THE BEGINNING as flesh and blood with what we call a yetzer hatov and a yetzer hara, both a good and bad nature. This is all from God, not from a tree they ate (if it was a tree, lots of interpretations there from sex with the devil to magic mushies) which had now made them wise and as God said, “now they have become as one of us knowing good and evil.” It wasn’t an uh-oh moment on His part, it was an acknowledgment of success in His plan.
No sin. No saviour. From
The beginning remember, He was there and the plan was in progress for His eventual arrival.
In Genesis 3:6-7 the scripture states that Eve “saw the tree as being good for food [lust of the flesh], delightful to the eye [lust of the eyes] and a tree desirable to make one wise [the pride of life].”God did that for a reason. He is about creating children, but as all children we have to learn through hands on experimentation, like all children do. Princes & princesses must be ruled before they can become Kings & Queens.
Through our mistakes we learn (hopefully!) to rectify the wrong, repent or apologize and make amends to do better, not for salvation but for our sanctification, a big difference that some churches get wrong. Our innate nature is to sin, not with some imbued “original sin” that we all got stuck with thanks to our oh-so disobedient parents. It was more like “original death” that we inherited from our first parents - blocked from eating of the tree of Life - and as YeHoVaH said “in dying you shall die”.
Herein came haSatan to our original parents in being economical with the actual truth when he exclaimed to the inexperienced and innocent Eve that she “wouldn’t SURELY die”. No, not straight away. The deceiver is very clever and remember, Eve had no prior knowledge or experience of deception, she was the ultimate naïveté, though as we comprehend she was somewhat flawed intentionally.
Isn’t it always our misdirected urges and desires that get us into trouble and lead us down to a wrong outcome? This is who we are innately, not good, we are unfortunately, quite evil as Jeremiah 17:9 said, “The heart of man is evil above all things and wicked to the point of desperation. Who can know it?”
As we accept Yeshua (Jesus) as Lord and Saviour we enter into a rebirth of sorts (until the resurrection or transformation), a time to wash our robes, a time to learn who it is that saved us, why YeHoVaH saved us from the death cycle of sin’s punishment through His Son’s age lasting sacrifice, and we learn who our Father is, what He saved us for and what He has intended for our future as we submit to His commands. There are well over 1000 commands, statutes and regulations in the Messianic Scriptures (New Testament) alone, so keeping or not keeping the Sinai Law is not enough for Messianics/Christians if we are to emulate the Messiah (Christ), and meanwhile, Baruch HaShem (praise His Name) that He is not holding our sins against us. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 and 5:14-15.
Also, there is no understanding of ‘eternity’ in ancient Hebrew thought form, the phrase is “age” or the Greek equivalent “aion” or “eon”. The ages are like a picture, they are framed, they have a start and a finish and YeHoVaH’s ongoing creation and lifecycle is age lasting upon age lasting, not forever and ever or the modern phrase of ‘eternity’. Yes it matters.
One day, Philippians 2:9-11 says EVERY KNEE WILL BOW. That’s everyone folks. Not some. All! Otherwise, Yeshua failed us and His Father.
"Satan is not His enemy - he's ours."
False.
Isaiah 14:13-15 King James Version (KJV)
"For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit".
Not that tired old story. Ha! That is not about haSatan or a legendary Lucifer at all. Once again, do some historical reading and get some enlightenment because you believe children’s fables. This entire chapter was about a particular king who exalted himself, but you’re brainwashed with an old creed and need deliverance from it, lol.
You immediately go wrong by saying that the scriptures were written by and for jews.
"Gentiles only came later."
The jew-word is generally applied to a descendant of Judah - just one of the tribes, so clearly, the scriptures were not written only by jews, but by various other tribal scribes and prophets too.
The word has been weaponized so that the unwary will falsely imagine the jews to be "God's Chosen People," which when you look at their satanic behaviour, no matter the period in history, is clearly not true.
They are in fact descendants not of Adam, but of Lucifer, as the Saviour Himself made clear; ie "Ye are of your father the devil, and his works ye will do."
"He was a murderer from the beginning," a statement which we can only take as being a direct reference to Cain's act with regard to his ( half ) brother, as being instilled in him by his father, ie Lucifer.
Genesis 3, 15 makes explicit the two seeds which were on the earth at that time, and states explicitly that one would always vie with the other.
jews actually entered the Promised Land in the late 2nd century BC, when the High Priest Hyrcanus conquered the Edomites, ie the descendants not of Judah, but of Esau.
Esau had gone to live in Idumaea, and so was not present in Egypt when the children of Israel went to live there - they acknowledge this themselves at John 8, 33.
By the time of the Incarnation, they were fully conversant with Jacob/Israel's religion, and had subverted it, and gained Roman support to take it over, so as to control these unruly people, who had the temerity to worship another god than Caesar.
Caiaphas and Annas, then, were Edomites, not Israelites, which explains their detestation of the Son of God Who had appeared in their midst.
So were the scriptures written by jews?
Nope.
Perhaps instead of saying “Jews” (with a capital “J”) I should have said Hebrews for someone as nitpicking as you espouse to be. You are uneducated and ill informed on these issues, an obvious antisemite with replacement theology as your creed, a bankrupt ideal that damns all Hebrews to death.
Moses who penned the Torah from YeHoVaH was a Levite and Israel as the twelve tribes of Israel including Judah had been in Egypt for approximately 400 years. Their father is not Lucifer, a vile characterisation of haSatan which is a vile legend perpetrated on a blind and dumb people who worshipped the religion of Rome, not the religion of the Christ through the Hebrews and who was Jewish. If you hate Jews (capital “J”) then you’re already cursed as that Abrahamic curse is about ALL OF HIS DESCENDANTS THROUGH ISAAC as YeHoVaH intended. Put the Zohar away on the bookshelf and read your Bible instead.
The ‘will’ to live is strong. Adam would have instinctively carried on. The beat of his heart would have propelled him, with remorse and pain, to suffer alone. IMO.
You confirm my claim about Adam, then. I guess love at first sight under those conditions is understandable. Eternal life without a mate would not have been very desirable. I feel the same about my wife.
Scripture makes it clear that man and woman are of one kind, ie she was taken from him, and was therefore called "woman," so whatever she did, was in him too.
As far as we can tell, neither repented of the sin they committed, and so those who expect to meet them one day in Paradise will probably be disappointed.
Those who were born before Jesus will be caught up to heaven in the last days…they are waiting for his return so they can be delivered from Abraham’s bosom.
1. Abraham’s Bosom (the place of the righteous dead before Christ’s resurrection)
• Luke 16:22–23 – “The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.”
👉 This suggests that before Jesus opened heaven, the righteous dead were in a place of comfort with Abraham, waiting.
2. Jesus opening the way to heaven
• Ephesians 4:8–10 – “When he ascended on high he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
👉 Many interpret this as Jesus taking the righteous souls who had been “captive” in Abraham’s bosom up into heaven after His resurrection.
• Hebrews 11:39–40 – “And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.”
👉 The Old Testament faithful were waiting for the completion of Christ’s work.
3. The resurrection of the dead at the last days
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 – “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”
👉 The righteous dead (including those who lived before Jesus) are raised at His return.
• John 5:28–29 – “Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.”
4. Final Deliverance
• Daniel 12:2 – “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
👉 Even in the Old Testament, the hope of resurrection and final deliverance was foretold.
• Before Christ, the faithful dead were comforted in Abraham’s bosom (Luke 16).
• Jesus, through His death and resurrection, opened the way for them to enter heaven (Ephesians 4, Hebrews 11).
• At His second coming, all the righteous dead (before and after Christ) will rise and be “caught up” with Him (1 Thessalonians 4, John 5, Daniel 12).
Not very clear. Seems a fair amount of confusion. Maybe the basic theological (eschatological) idea goes as follows: Immortal souls transcend the death of the flesh body. We enjoy a post-mortem "continuity of consciousness." The state of consciousness in that post mortem time determines the ideational world the soul experiences. Certain degrees of awareness bestow a heaven-like existence, other degrees of lack of awareness result in hellish conditions. The state or status of consciousness is not determined by gold stars on chart (OT view of the law) but rather by one's spiritual formation, a more mystical concept, a concept one finds in the Gospel of John, for example.
You make the error of thinking that the soul is immortal.
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die" is God's rebuke to you.
But for your reassurance, there is no "hellish condition" prescribed for those who lack the faith that God requires in order to please Him; as we read, "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day, his thoughts perish."
Perhaps more famously, John 3, 16; which alike refers to perishing.
The wages of sin is death, not "hellish conditions."
As to some sort of congruence between "gold stars on a chart" and what God requires of us; the Law was only given so that we might understand that we can never even get one gold star, "All our thoughts are only continually wicked."
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
"There is none that doeth good, no, not one."
This is why we need a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord; and not gold stars on a chart, as the jews would have you believe, and indeed all those who believe in a gospel of works.
The very nature of a soul includes immortality. A soul is not that which is transitory or temporal. A soul partakes of divinity that renders it as Spirit, as other than Flesh. The nature of soul death, or second death, is more akin to sleeping (unconsciousness), a term often used.
Though you reject the silly OT Theology, gold stars on a chart, the Law, you nonetheless apply OT Theology to the discussion. As with all too many Christians today, you conflate OT Theology with Christianity, where it does not apply. Crashing error.
There are indeed states of hellish existence. This is not only scripturally noted, but also a matter of practical observation. A soul, once released from the flesh body, enters an ideational state/realm/world which may involve hellish ideation.
Psalm 146:4, with which you lead off, is obviously OT. (To my point.) That passage does not say your thoughts or life perishes, but rather the worldly planning of princes perish. It is a comparison of Divine rule with worldly political rule. Misinterpreted OT puts a double whammy on a lack of understanding. The passage has nothing to do with the immortality of the soul.
The immortality of the soul is so basic to Christian faith that rejecting such a foundational concept places you in some other discussion. I can understand why you would not want to "get into a lengthy discussion about theology."
I don't really want to get into a lengthy discussion about theology with you here; but I have suggested that "the righteous dead" that you refer to should not include Adam and Eve, as there is no sign they ever repented of their miscegeny.
The "Abraham's bosom" story cannot be used doctrinally, as it must be allied with another scripture saying the same thing - and there isn't one.
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There's a great deal of symbolism in ancient records which one needs to be very careful wnen considering to form an opinion. The story of Adam and Eve comes across as such.
Not to mention OT Theology must be approached with caution. There are those who objected to OT Theology and presented a different theology, a NT Theology with its New Covenant. Oh, yeah, Jesus did that. Was put on trial, found guilty of blasphemy, and was crucified (for blasphemy). So, one must proceed with caution when one jumps into rejecting that symbolism.
As the proverb goes, be quick to listen, but slow to speak. And you can add act.
The Original Sin is abundantly clear from the scriptures - Eve had sex with the serpent - Lucifer, of course.
So then as now, mankind's besetting sin is to place the lusts of the eyes and the flesh before the commandments of God.
I guarantee that even to the present day, you will not encounter a single female, whether old or young, whose primary interest is not in clothes, fashion, make-up, shoes, and handbags.
Again false. The scripture may insinuate a great sin…but it doesn’t say sex without any evidence or further proof. It is still a theory or claim. The word should never be altered. Saying it was sex would be altering Gods Word.
Also your claim that there are no righteous women in the world, is just false. My primary interest is God. So there’s one female right here!
Me thinks you should cry out "blasphemy" and bring dear old Tim to trial.
Maybe I should have said "unregenerate" female.
You have been born again, and so have passed from death unto life, and have been given a new heart, distinct from the one you were born with.
Scripture is more subtle than you are - it tells you without overtly telling you.
We know that sex with a forbidden other species, ie the angels - was the original sin, because of the later mention at Genesis 3, 15, when the seed of the serpent and the seed of Adam are explicitly stated as being at war with each other for all time.
Further evidence is found in the story of what transpired between Cain and Abel - you would say "That was just a coincidence," but scripture is never coincidental.
The Lord Jesus Christ referred to the truth which you do not want to hear when He told the jews, "Ye are of your father the devil, and his works ye will do. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING."
He is clearly referring to this very action of Cain's.
Cain was the son of Lucifer and Eve - unless you think Lucifer was only interested in her because of their shared love of gardening.
How old are you?
You have to see these verses as being part of a message from various places in scripture.
Combination of the threads leads to the golden cloth.
Genesis 3,15 is unequivocal about the two seeds.
And if two seeds, then two different fathers.
Note that although Eve was described by Adam as being the mother of all living, he never described himself as being the father of all living - because he clearly wasn't.
It is the only logical way to understand why Cain did what he did.
And from the OP himself, this whole article is about using your brain.
“you will not encounter a single female, whether old or young, whose primary interest is not in clothes, fashion, make-up, shoes, and handbags.”
🤣🤦🏼♀️Pity the man that has never met a woman more devoted to crafting her art and nurturing her family ties than curating hand bags and heels.
Her biological propensities lead her towards having children and - in some cases - a husband too, and so she must look after the fruit of her womb, but she will always start from her obsession with the unimportant and glittery things in life.
Oh, bless your heart! While biology might nudge us toward nurturing, it’s the deep, joyful intimacy of a long-term partnership—built on love, trust, communication, respect and shared dreams—that truly lights up a woman’s world, far beyond any fleeting sparkle of glittery things.
And when we’re ready to take that sacred journey at life’s end, it’s the strength and depth of our bonds with others—those woven through shared laughter, tears, and unwavering support—that matter most, not a single handbag in sight.
"Oh, bless your heart!" Words of warning never better spoken.
She keeps them in the back of her wardrobe, and brings them out when he's not around to see.
Oh, darling, your view betrays a life starved of true companionship’s warmth. While you imagine secret stashes of frivolous trinkets, a woman rich in love cherishes the shared glances, quiet moments, and unshakeable bond with her partner—treasures your wardrobe of cynicism could never hold. Reflecting on what truly matters to me as a human being brings me joy; how sad you have missed it!
In the wise words of Tamara Vineyard from today’s earlier Substacks (Midwestern Doctor / Autism is Ischemic Stroke), “…IGNORANCE IS CONTAGIOUS.” We’d do well to stop spreading it; use th brains G-D.YWH gave us, & remember: prayer fires up th brain, too.
please direct me to the specific AMD post that contains the info about ischemic strokes
An earlier version of the same article :
https://open.substack.com/pub/amidwesterndoctor/p/why-does-every-vaccine-often-cause?r=lf1w8&utm_medium=ios
Close to beginning/middle of this very long post: discusses stroke findings of the late Dr Moulden (sp?)
https://open.substack.com/pub/amidwesterndoctor/p/what-makes-all-vaccines-so-dangerous?r=lf1w8&utm_medium=ios
Sorry John, but I think you are a little 'off' here. Adam does not look lazy to me, he looks fully formed but lifeless/listless. God is giving him (spiritual) life. The message is that the life of the spirit of man comes from God, not from pure biology as in the (rest of) the the animal kingdom. Nothing to do with the brain - although I agree with your advice on using the brain if one has a brain.
You are on to something here. Issues of faith have to do with Spirit. Matters of the brain have to do with materialistic pseudo-science. Two domains that are joined with good theology and good science, but that is not the state of affairs today. As it is, we have Separate Magisterium.
Excellent observation! God gave Michael Angelo three brains and most of us don’t even use one brain!
Mankind is more in need of a feeling heart then anything else. Brains without a heart is its own kind of catastrophe
Yes, definitely. In Christianity the feeling heart comes from the Holy Spirit i.e. from God.
You are absolutely correct.
God states, "And I will give them a new heart of flesh to replace their heart of stone."
It's absolutely clear that God values the heart above all else - the brain is never even mentioned.
It's simply a modern-day delusion to place it before all else.
Part of mankind's foolish pride and hubris - you will often hear zoologists waxing lyrical about how big our brains are compared with other species.
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” ?Thomas Edison
God reaches out to us through the pineal gland. God invites us to reason together with Him. Adam isn't lazy though. He has a very well formed muscular body that can only come from using those muscles. He is not a frail man. But, to awaken into life we much reach out and accept the touch that God reaches out to touch us with.
The pineal gland? Really? Are you sure? Maybe not good theology, not good science. A gland. A piece of matter? Flesh? Hm. Gonna pass on that explanation.
I'm just explaining what the painter was trying to express and what has been understood for the millennia and especially during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Even Rene Descartes made this claim. No one is asking you to agree or disagree with whether the pineal gland is what helps us connect with God. However, its clear this was what the painter was trying to express. Our God given physical body is the hardware by which our spirit interacts within this physical world. It is also the means by which we connect with the spiritual. Who knows for sure, but the mystics and philosophers of the past sure thought it was.
Right. No one asked me. Nor did they ask you. But I did, nonetheless, state my disagreement, as you stated your hypothesis. I do not believe the painter was trying to make a statement about a pineal gland. No doubt the body, the flesh, is a conduit to the physical world. It is an instrument for identity, communication, action. It is not, however, a means of connecting with the spiritual, but rather an impediment in most instances. (See Romans.) As an immortal soul, I do not need a body to connect with my essence or with the divine. (Otherwise, I would have to drag a rotting corpse into the Afterlife.) No, the mystics and philosophers did not prattle on about a pineal gland. In fact, the early theologians, marrying theology with Idealism, had a more sophisticated view. (See Origen, Augustine, Bonaventure. Plotinus.)
The light within us. This is how God can be everywhere. The allegorical aspects of the ancient texts are amazing once discerned.
Beautiful illustration of SHAPE OF BRAIN!...Thanks...this is just amazing! There is always more to learn.Dr. McCullough.. I am Interested in your take on the "destruction of the pineal gland...according to top Italian pathologists....IS THAT REAL?
Wow what insight….thank you ❤️
Interesting!!
That is not God it is the Psychotic "god" of the Old Testament - Satan. You can watch the work of his followers in Gaza.
A quotation from the jew Harold Wallace Rosenthal places your remark in its appropriate context.
"Jewish people do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer, and we are his chosen people."
The God of the Old Testament is the same as the God of the New Testament, ie YHVH, whose Name translates from the very letters used to form it, "Behold the hand, Behold the nail."
Your right on target Tim!
I had read Rosenthal's exposure some years ago. He was not exposing it out of goodness but because he thought they were unstoppable at that point.
If people just read with comprehension and reflection the writings in the Old Testament, Torah and Talmud as well as Netanyahu and his Cabinet's the see the same Essence: Satan!
The OT of course was given to Moses by God Himself, and so its pronouncements are righteous and holy, but the jews pay their respects to the Talmud, which is the - as you say - satanic writings of the sages and rabbis, all of whom Christ denounced.
If you subscribe to the belief that God is omniscient, omnipotent, yet loving and compassionate toward his creation, mankind, then I'd have to agree with you. I can certainly agree that the brutish, lower-than-animals, perverted, sub-human scum of hamas (along with their "civilian-palestinian" co-rapists/killers) are the spawn of Satan. And I am not even religious. islam is the 1400 year old spawn of Satan - not a religion, but a death cult that continues to refuse to enter the modern age along with true religions. [I do not capitalize islam, muslims, etc. as I feel that shows undue respect.]
Ouch. That hurts. The horrors of evil are not relegated to only one kind of religious expression. Even without a moral framework the fairly recent and continuing framework of murderous acts by the ultra evil group under the BANDERA BATTALION comes to mind. (Look up Stephan Bandera, radical militant of Ukrainian Nationalists . And then look up the reason for Putin SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION.). This is my example of what mankind is capable of inflicting upon others of his species.
Hamas was set up and funded by the real villains of the piece, the jews, as a counter to the PLO.
The jewish state, with all its billion-dollar surveillance apparatus, apparently missed the fact of the coming attack, and stood down, purely so as to give themselves casus belli to initiate the genocide which they are carrying out at the moment, under the rubric of "collective guilt."
There is no evidence for the rape and murder of jews, although the jews themselves stated policy was to kill any jewish persons caught up in the attack, so as to prevent them from becoming hostages.
I believe it is called the Hannibal Directive.
To my knowledge, the very Creator Himself never described Palestinians as the spawn of satan - rather, the jews who are still committing genocide against them, including the women and children.
He wasn't speaking to moslems when He said, "Ye are of your father the devil."
Islam itself was a fairly harmless cult until the jews got involved with it, and instituted the idea of jihad, such that it then caught on like wildfire, and was unleashed on the jews' number one enemy, the Christians.
It is amazing art, I am being there. That interpretation is novel to me but looking at it resembles a brain and also it can be a spaceship. The known interpretation is beautiful too, if you focus in the fingers of Creator and creature, God has his finger extend it wanted to touch man but mand has his finger bent as if he doesn't want to touch God or resist to have a relation with Him that is also true.
I don’t think mankind listened.
Usually fear causes most to act foolishly. No jab no work no mask no outing. Hopefully realised no mark no buy and sell is on the way to sent many to hell. Pray to be saves 🙏 🙏
Revelation 13.15-18
Eww. Ouch. Conflating brain with consciousness. Error message. Flashing. Especially in a religious context. Soul possesses consciousness, which transcends brain/body. Basic premise of religion. Continuity of consciousness, post mortem. Basic. In contrast, consciousness as an emergent property of matter (brain) is the essence of materialism (physicalism). Rather than "you have a brain, use it," it would be more appropriate to say, you can be conscious, wake up.
I believe that Michelangelo was revealing that God's spirit is in man and it interfaces with his mind. His spirit reaches down to pull us up but we are not really interested enough to lift ourselves high enough to meet Him. This idea is best explained in the Urantia Book which purports to be a divine revelation and I believe it is.