Paradoxes Created By The Fall: The Tangent Universe & The New Universe

Growth as much as life itself is shot through with paradox. Though it wasn't always that way. The universe itself once used to be quite right. It was good. Very good. And so were we. But something terrible happened, that no one can quite understand, long, long ago. This is not legend, but a fact of our existence.

In a perfect universe, paradox would not be necessary, aside from being something which would exemplify beauty. But then something happened we call "fall."

This was an event in which humanity became polluted with evil, that which is contrary to what is right and true. And being polluted, humanity was quarantined.

Humanity decided to turn against God and play God, and so all of reality was affected, it became fallen. The evil generated within the human heart, the desire to supplant god, and play god, and redefine good and evil to fit our emotions and pleasures became central to human consciousness and perception of reality.

In our minds, good became bad and bad became good, in many ways, though not all. We became desirous to create our own utopia, apart from God. We became desirous to prove God wrong, and to smirk in the face of God, and to sneer toward any mention of God. It became our base programming.

Now this choice in the heart of our ancestors, then seems to have been magnified outside of them, and onto the world around them. That's just how central humanity is to the creation, the creation was created to house humanity, thus humanity's choice affected it completely.

Reality became fallen. Space became vast and lifeless. How was it before? Who could say? Perfect I imagine. Seasons became shattered. Conditions became difficult. The various creatures and animals having once been harmonious and peaceful, became vicious, and prone to consume one another.

All of reality was struck through with paradoxes. Paradoxes, paradoxes, and more paradoxes. Just like two colliding storm fronts produce tornadoes, so the collision of humanity with God's objective truth created numerous paradoxes.

Energy became limited. The human mind became debased. Earthquakes, meteors, storms, and such began to occur. Humanity knew shame and grief, and lostness and isolation from God.

All this came about due to a choice that was made. It began with a choice made by a servant of God, named Lucifer. He apparently became prideful, and chose that path, and then attempted a rebellion against the Creator. This rebellion failed. But somehow in this situation, lucifer managed to get humanity in on the destruction. He managed to trick us into rebellion against God.

Now, every human born on the broken, tangent Earth is born in a default mode of rebellion toward God. As much as we're born with the handprint of God on us, with eternal longings, we're also born with the handprint of Satan on us, defaulting toward rebellion, selfishness, and a deference for darkness. We cling to it, grasp onto it, it becomes us, and it matches us so well. We're like the horrid creatures in H.G. Well's The Time Machine in the far future, that live underground in dark tunnels, and love every minute of it. That's the horrendous realization of our situation, we're the chief problem. And we don't often look intently at that angle because nothing in us wants it to be true. But it is true. And I can't help but stare at it. It's terrible, but it's there and maybe if I can stare at it long enough, the Lord can defeat it in me.

That's what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid that this fallen nature, this reprobate mind, this stamp of rebellion upon me will destroy me. Even as a Christian, deeply in love with God, and following Him, I sometimes fear I will veer off course, because many times I'm so tempted, and many times, I feel the rebellion in me, and it's sway is strong. But growing weaker and weaker as Christ works on me.

But I think it's wise to have a good fear of falling away. Of course some would shout "you can't lose it!" And to those I would say, read John chapter 15, Hebrews 6, Romans 11, and Revelation 2, to begin with.

We're called to live holy and pure in Christ. Many Christians in our lukewarm era don't want to admit that. They refuse to believe that they can lose their position through endless sinning, but they can. It's a precarious and dangerous situation.

I'm weary of the modern cry from the pulpits of "once saved always saved." The preachers who teach this will one day have to stand before God and explain to God the Father why they taught millions of people that they could never lose their salvation, no matter how much they sinned. Some preachers even say, "I sin everyday, and you can too." Very interesting perspective. But I believe in holiness unto the Lord. I believe we can walk so closely with Christ, that we need not sin in this life any longer. It's a journey of course, of growth, of what we can "progressive sanctification."