Lost, Dead, where to begin?

We often hear people referring to those that are “lost”, the passages from the bible referring to “dead”, so I understand that so many look at these passages to mean “lost” or “dead” and relate them to “saved” or “unsaved”… but is that what they are really telling us?

Look from the beginning…. when God formed the man from the dust of the ground, it was this man who was told not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil from any source… and that in the day that he did so that he would surely die.

So to “die” or how one was told he would “surely die” was from the result of hearkening to the voice of another who was not God on matters pertaining to himself and God.

So if we carry that first “premise” throughout the pages of the bible… we see that what it means to be “lost” or “dead” is simply lost to what is within us… what it is that we are able to know from within…. what God has made known Himself, not as a result of hearkening to the voice of another.

When we look at what Jesus’ says regarding “eternal life” it is the means/way for man to know God, to turn from traditions of having hearkened to the voice of another about God, what God knows, what God would have someone to do or not to do from another who was not GOD to “knowing the one true God” for oneself and being “resurrected” (no longer dead) to have “life” etc.

There is no where that the “voices” in the garden (which when hearkened to regarding God, what God would have any of us to do, or knowledge of good (God) and evil…… leads to death)  are “silenced”…. so that no one can ever “once again get entangled in them and find the latter end worse for them than the beginning…..

The voices will always be there…. as we see from the bible. It was God that put them there.. and that it is the temptation that is “common to man”…. but it is about “eternal life”… “knowing the one true God…..” having escaped the pollutions of the world through the KNOWLEDGE of God and Jesus… that one then and only then face the “sorer punishment” or the “latter end is worse for them than the beginning”…. not before.

As we also see from the opening pages of the bible, that Adam did not face “ye shall surely die” until after he is shown to have been walking with God, being taught of God what it is that he was to do and not to do, and having known God from having God reveal Himself to him, but also for God himself to have spoken to him, taught him, and told him what it was that he was not to do before the “shall surely die” became a factor. 🙂

One that knows the “way” isn’t one that is lost… it is one that doesn’t know that is the one that can or will be lost. As Jesus is shown to have also said… those that are taught by God, and learn from Him will come to Christ…. all shall be taught of God… and as the bible has been telling us all along… it isn’t until one has heard from God, knows whatever it is that God would have them to do or not to do Himself…. and knows God and is walking with Him themselves, that they would then “surely die” partaking of the knowledge of good (God) and evil from another source… for that would be for them to choose to walk away from what it is that they KNOW they are to do … and to do so to them is “sin”… right??

It’s all based on “knowledge of God”… “knowing God”…. and Jesus’ commandments are the “way” for one to have “eternal life”… (knowing the one true God and Jesus Christ)… none of it is based on a “second-hand knowing” or a knowing as the result of having hearkened to the voice of another regarding God, or what it is that God would have one to do or not to do. That was always to proceed from the mouth of God …. and man was to live by whatever proceeded from the mouth of God … and not to partake of the knowledge of good (God) and evil from any other source .. 🙂

Ask God!