The True God

2006-10-14 05:55:00

Dan brings up the interesting possibility that we may have been deceived concerning the account of God and the serpent at the beginning of Genesis. Maybe Jehovah is really Satan and the serpent is really the true God.

After all, did not the serpent offer freedom of choice by getting Eve to partake of the tree of knowledge? Did not Jehovah command the Israelites to slaughter men, women and children in war?

Joseph Smith put an interesting twist on this tale by stating that Jehovah had planned all along for Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge. He set up the circumstances with the serpent as an unknowing pawn to create a "fall" and carry out the plan to introduce free agency.

Whatever the case there is a danger in reaching a conclusion and then using it as a black and white blueprint for right and wrong. It matters not which one is the true God if the seeker does not use his own agency and judgment and then contact his own soul within. Once this is done the question will not be which one is the true God, but it will be what are the true principles revealed by which we can guide our lives toward everlasting peace and happiness?

Once one gives and receives in the language of principles through the soul he can learn from an experience with either a devil or an angel.

What's the main lesson we take away from the Eden story?

It is revealed in this verse:

"...Behold, the man is to become as one of us, knowing good from evil..." (Genesis 3:22)

To know and understand duality and to be able to see the two sides of each situation and make a choice opens a path that will manifest the soul and the true God within each one of us.

Be true to the principle of free will and you will meet the God who nourishes free will. Seek to control with strong authority and restrict free will and you will meet the god that enslaves. Even if you make an honest mistake and get the good and evil characters confused you will gravitate in the spirit to the one that is like yourself - therefore make yourself free and seek to bring freedom to others.

I would like here to emphasise one point as we consider the individual in the group and his group relations. Watch with care your thoughts anent each other, and kill out at once all suspicion, all criticism and seek to hold each other unwaveringly in the light of love. You have no idea of the potency of such an effort or of its power to release each other's bonds and to lift the group to an exceedingly high place. By the pure light of love for each other, you can draw nearer to me and to the teachers on the subjective side of life and arrive more rapidly at that Gate which opens on the lighted Way.
Discipleship in the New Age, Vol 1, page 10