| If there is a core message (and there are many) in | | | | Genesis 2:10-14. In the garden there was ONE river! |
| the second creation story which according to experts | | | | But, when the river left the garden, it parted into |
| was written around 1,000BCE whereas the creation | | | | FOUR rivers. You can read the names and for each |
| story in Genesis 1 was written 500 years later | | | | there is a symbolism that I'm not that interested into |
| (500BCE). For me, and this is a personal position that | | | | reviewing for this train of thought that I've been in |
| I take (and far more people down through history | | | | this week. |
| than you can imagine as well), the so-called FALL of | | | | How can we regain that ONENESS that we had in |
| man is summed up in three words or concepts: | | | | the Garden, in Paradise? |
| separation, belief in two powers, and limitation. Let's | | | | PRAYER! MEDITATION! CONTEMPLATION! |
| review it. | | | | Our healing and our restoration to the ONNESS that |
| We are to be ONE! That's the message behind the | | | | is the Christ Consciousness comes each time we |
| message in Genesis 2 and 3. In the New Testament | | | | pray in earnest (that's not me y'all). When we join |
| the message that Jesus brought is that we are ONE | | | | our spirits to God, when we co-create with Him, and |
| with God. | | | | when we submit our lives to being His life here on |
| Body and soul work together as ONE unit. My body | | | | earth- now we're talking SALVATION! When we live |
| cannot do what my soul (mind) does not dictate. | | | | the mind of Christ, we are beginning to overcome |
| Subscribing to two powers | | | | the limitations of belief in two powers. |
| d evil), instead of one power caused SEPARATION | | | | It doesn't come easy and it takes constant care and |
| and immediately built in many limitations (sweat of | | | | attention. But what greater thing can you do in life? |
| the brow and pain in child birth as an example). And | | | | Let's get ON with it (Him)! |
| then we find this very interesting verification in | | | | |