5.2 Accusing God
© 2019 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
We must assert this fact before continuing. The serpent was speaking nonsense. Every word and every single idea conveyed by those words was 100% hot air, blither, utterly meaningless piddle. The serpent was “throwing the dice,” in one desperate gamble, hoping against hope that he could lure Adam into turning away from the tree of life towards mental ideas.
The ideas of the serpent do not have to represent anything real; all they have to do is get into the human mind to replace the acknowledgement of Christ Jesus as the Words by which every human is sustained every moment – with any idea that “sounds like” Christ but is not Jesus alive inside the heart.
The Source and Completion. At this point, I would suggest that you read back through Chapter 1 of this text again, especially 1.2 Designed by Word and 1.3 Sustained by Word. Rather than repeating the essence of those lessons here, we place ourselves inside of this reality, that every human is coming out from the good speaking of Jesus every moment and exists and is sustained only by those Words and by nothing else.
Here is Revelation 1:8 in the Jesus Secret Version. – I am the A and the Z, the source and the completion, says the Lord God, the One who is existing and who has existed and who is continuously and actively coming, the One who takes hold of all, the One who sustains and carries all. [God All-Carrying.]
The Human Mind. Jesus in Person, living right now inside our hearts in all that He is, ALONE is the source and ALONE is the completion of every word God speaks inside our human lives.
Our human minds, then, are the place inside of our consciousness where the story of words we tell ourselves about ourselves happens. As a servant of the Life dwelling inside our hearts, the human mind acknowledges every good word God speaks and then directs the mouth to speak the same words that are Jesus and directs the eyes to see God alone. But the human mind has two kinds of receptors, we might say. The most numerous kind is that which holds individual ideas. The most important kind, however, holds the ruling definitions.
No Room for Jesus. If the serpent can get his non-ideas and his meaningless definitions into the “nodes” of the human mind wherein the ruling definitions find their place, then there is no room for the good-speaking of Christ to fit into those same nodes. If the inn is full of not-Christ, then there is no room for Jesus.
Not-Christ does not exist. Jesus cannot be separate from any human, for all things are sustained every moment by the Word of His power. But if the Christian mind does not think so, then Christian himself will sit and wait for death to “take him to heaven,” and the fake words of death remain triumphant inside the Church, inside the fullness of Christ walking bodily upon this earth.
Accusing God. As you probe into Christian’s mind, you will find a profound knowing of Jesus in grace, the Jesus of his heart. BUT – arrayed against that true knowing you will find a far more powerful definition – you will find the most terrible accusation ever driven against the heart of our dear Father.
Genesis 3 is written out from the human and earthly viewpoint of what happened in the garden. But heaven’s viewpoint of the same event is a bit different. Heaven witnessed the mightiest angel among them, the one whom they held in highest honor as their covering under God, declaring by these words, “Did God indeed say,” that God is a LIAR and that His Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, is not true.
Defining God. God has magnified His Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, above every other part of Himself (Psalm 138:2). To strike against the word God speaks is to strike against Father Himself.
Nonetheless, inside the serpent’s words there came an accusation against Father, against His Heart, against His goodness, that is simply beyond our ability to comprehend. Here is that horrific and wicked accusation. – God KNOWS evil! – right alongside of His knowing of “good.”
I have not known any Christian in my life or heard or read any Christian teaching, from Orthodox to deeper truth, that has not agreed with the serpent, that he was telling the truth about God, that the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ “knows good and evil.” This wicked definition of God is beyond comprehension.
Sowing Deceit. Yet that wicked and Satanic definition of God rules in the Christian mind to the imposition of all sorts of false and twisted fantasy upon every verse in the Bible.
Consider Genesis 3:22 – Now the man has become as one who knows good and evil. Except that’s probably not how your Bible reads. All translators I have read are so convinced that the serpent spoke the truth, that the “true” definition of “God” is the one given us by the devil (you must see “god” through me), that they deceitfully insert two little words into the text that are NOT in the Hebrew at all. The translators join with the lie of the serpent in this way – Now the man has become as one of Us, knowing good and evil. We will look more at this casting of false seed in translation later.
All Hostility. For six thousand years, every human who has ever lived, billions and billions of us, have accused God of falseness with almost every breath. This accusation against God is even written all through the theology and thinking of Christianity in this world.
And the foundation for all our hostility against God is this one fundamental underlying and RULING assumption that we hold – that God KNOWS “good AND evil,” and thus, that we are miserable because of God’s nature and that a “God” who “controls everything” is responsible for our misery. If God is so great and so smart, why doesn’t He fix everything that is WRONG with me and my life? – God, I hate the way You made me; I would rather be better, higher, and superior.
How Do We Know God? You see, we are faced with an enormous problem. Our LIFE and our SALVATION is to KNOW God (John 17:3). But in order to know God, we must know Him where He is, how He is, and as He is. – Without faith one is incapable of pleasing God; indeed, it behooves the one approaching to believe that God is and that He becomes the rewarder of those seeking out and requiring of Him (Hebrews 11:6).
Only one thing prevents any believer in Jesus from knowing the Father as He is – and that one thing is “knowing” God as He is NOT. The “definition” of God one holds in one’s mind is the most important ruling definition, since it blocks or invites our living inside of Salvation now and forever.
The Mind Cannot Know. We know God first inside the Spirit-knowing of our hearts, an ability given only to those humans who are born of the Spirit.
The human mind cannot know God. As a servant to the life of Christ inside the heart, the mind can acknowledge what God speaks and thus direct the eyes to see God alone and the mouth to speak the same word with the Lord Jesus. God is invisible Spirit, all here now. The mind is incapable of “defining” God, for the moment something is defined, it is bounded and separated into an idea, and that idea is no longer God Himself.
In order for us to perceive Him, however, the Father gives us a lens through which we can describe God without imposing mental definitions. God calls that lens, “image.”
Two Images. There are two images through which you and I are able to know God by description. One image is the weakest of humans stumbling into the dirt under the weight of a cross He cannot carry. – “He that has seen Me, has seen the Father.” The other image is the highest of heavenly angels, an image of outward lights and perfections, of lofty superiority holding a deep contempt for weakness, a “god” of “morality.”
Let me define “morality.” Morality is the capacity to know what is wrong and evil and to avoid it and to know what is right and good and to do it. One problem with “morality” is that doing right is ALWAYS the conjoined twin of doing wrong. God is NOT a moral being: doing what is wrong never enters His mind. He knows nothing of “choosing not to do wrong.” The other problem with morality is that moral living CANNOT give life.
Life-Power. To be just exactly like God is found inside of one thing – love one another. Loving one another can be only God among us. Anything outside of loving one another inside the human expression, God among us, cannot be part of “being like” God.
God-power is not force-power, but life-power, something entirely different. Gardeners know what life-power is, but all rulers and demons in human affairs know only force-power. Life-power is carrying power, walking beneath, lifting others up, working slowly and with tender compassion, arising into joy and abundance – God-All-Carrying. God is incapable of controlling anyone or forcing His knowledge because such thoughts are not found inside of Him.
A “God” Who Knows Evil. What kind of a “God” do we come up with, then, if we describe the Father through the image of the highest angel of heaven and through the force of Adam’s rebellion, a “God” who possesses thoughts of evil inside of His knowing?
We would know a “God” who holds Himself “above,” who thinks more highly of Himself than of anyone else, a “God” who borders on arrogance. We would know a “God” who thus holds the weakness of human flesh in contempt, even though He created it, and who requires of us as humans to be what we are not and do what we cannot. In fact, to want to be “like” such a “God” would then lead to human arrogance as everyone claims. Thus the accusation that God “knows evil” emboldens the Christian refusal to be like Him.
Separate or Bound. If we knew a “God” who knows evil alongside of good, we could chose “God” to be “transcendent” and thus separate from all, and even haughty in his disdain. Or we could choose “God” to be bound inside of created things, generating both good and evil, light and darkness, mercy and cruelty as an utterly impersonal “God.”
We would know a “God” who holds all completion of salvation just beyond our reach, who commands us to reach for it, but never allows anyone to touch it, yet requires us to remain “sinful” until the curse of death has triumphed over us. We would know “repentance” that never ends and an “obedience” that never comes.
A Universe Split-Apart. If we knew a “God” who knows evil alongside of good, we would know a “God” who designs the completion of all His works as a universe split forever between a place all “good” and a place all “evil” (or should we say a “duo-verse). We would know a “God” who was satisfied with unresolved conflict, a “God” who needs neither a victorious Word nor any triumph over all that opposes.
In fact, we would know a “God” just like our own conflicting emptiness, a “God” like us, and not the other way around.
We would know a “God” presenting Himself as outward perfections and demanding outward perfections of everyone. We would know a “God” who speaks love out of one side of his mouth and hatred out of the other side, a “God” who provides us with a small, limited, and partial redemption only.
Seeing God through an Angel. If we knew a “God” who knows evil alongside of good, we would know this “God” by mental ideas only, for such a “God” could never be known by heart, and we would also know that, in spite of anything the Bible says, we could never be like such a “God,” for if we wanted to, we would become as evil as he.
Yet this “God” I have described is, in fact, the image of God held by Nicene Christianity, a view of God known only out from the fall into Roman (and Greek) darkness.
You see, when the serpent said “God,” he meant himself, not that he could know or be anything like our Father, but rather, that he could win the place of the image of God inside the minds of all humans, and especially, inside the mental perception of the Christian who could, in fact, cast him down in a moment.