Bullet Point 3 (of 12) - Failed Test from God (misses the mark)

Bullet Point 3 (of 12); The Fall of Man was a test from God that we failed (misses the mark)

My wife doesn't like this picture at all, which makes my point exactly. The picture is a graphic illustration of what a belief in the Fall of Man being a test that 'we the people' failed actually looks like. Similar to the cognitive dissonance generated by a belief in everlasting hell, together with the belief in a God of Love.

The purpose of these bullet points showing where Christianity has missed the mark is to demonstrate that an overhaul of our basic understanding is needed. Otherwise Christianity will remain essentially weak and irrelevant as was shown to be the case during the plandemic scam that we have recently come through.

The Fall of Man was nothing to do with a test that we failed, or with an actual 'fruit' that God made. The Commandment that God gave was in the same 'ballpark' as warnings that parents give to their children when advising them of looking both ways before crossing the road, or to be wary of talking with strangers when they are out walking on their own.

The Crime of the Angel:

And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day; just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Jude 6-7

From this passage we can infer that the angel fell as a result of an illicit sexual relationship.

The Crime of the First Human Ancestors:

We read that before they fell, Adam and Eve were both naked, and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:25. After the Fall, however, they felt ashamed of their nakedness and sewed fig leaves together into aprons to cover their lower parts. Genesis 3:7. If they had committed a crime by eating some actual fruit from a tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then they certainly would have covered their hands or mouths instead. It is human nature to conceal one’s faults. Thus, the act of covering their lower parts shows that these parts, and not their mouths, were the source of their shame. In Job 31:33 it is written, “If I have concealed my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom." Adam concealed his lower parts after the Fall; this indicates that his blemish was in his lower parts. Adam and Eve’s sexual parts were the source of their shame because they were the instruments of their sinful deed.

In the world before the human Fall, what act would one be willing to carry out even at the clear risk of one’s life? It could be nothing else but the act of love. God’s purpose of creation, described in the blessings “be fruitful and multiply,” (Genesis 1:28) can be achieved only through love. Accordingly, from the viewpoint of God’s purpose of creation, love should be the most precious and sacred act. But because the sexual act was the very cause of the Fall, people often regard it with shame and even contempt. It is clear that human beings fell through an act of illicit sexual intercourse.

This is why the sexualisation of children at kindergarten level should be frowned upon by any reasonable parent - fashionasble clothes and make-up are inappropriate. Similarly sexual relationships before marriage are not, at all, on the menu. Can you see why the traditional Christian belief that the Fall of Man being a test from God that we failed totally misses the mark?

​Here’s an invitation to a Spring seminar, March 18-20, at the Mountain Retreat in West Virginia, USA. “Mission of the Messiah” and “True Parents in the Completed Testament Age” among the topics. Attend in person, or on-line. Looking forward to seeing you there. Let’s get real about God!

Andrew and Marie Derricutt