Chapter 3 – IN THE GARDEN

It goes all the way back to the Garden when Adam didn’t know about Rejection.  Not because the Garden was free from evil.  It wasn’t.  The snake was already there.   Adam simply didn’t recognize imperfection because of his singular Good eyesight.  He worked in confidence, and possessed a secure identity.  Because of these characteristics, the Garden operated in flawless favor in spite of the presence of evil.

But once the fruit of both Good and Evil was ingested, Adam saw both within himself, and he was exposed, and naked.

His first reaction toward evil was shock.  Stunned by it, he looked inwardly and saw it there too.  Suddenly he reeled with the revelation that he wasn’t perfect, he was unworthy, and most probably unlovable.

The revelation was disabling and terrified him. For the first time, fear entered his heart.  What should he do?  How would he proceed to live under this knowledge?  What was he?

Rejection offered him a recourse.  He could Reject imperfection and evil, and create boundaries thereby attempting to push them away.  He became the judge and the jury of himself, and Rejected his own imperfection.  However, Adam didn’t know who he was with imperfection.  He’d never seen imperfection in himself.  It shook his confidence, and destroyed his identity.  He was now completely lost and unable to make decisions.

How could he administer the Garden from such lack of confidence and identity?  If he had stayed, he would have caused utter chaos in the Garden.  This is why he had to leave.

God provided clothes for Adam and Eve, and gave them instructions on how to survive during this time of great confusion and upheaval, just as He had done for me.

Then Father told me the most amazing thing – that Adam was still as perfect as the day he was created. Nothing had changed about him except his ability to see.  Now he perceived both Good and Evil.

So Adam began using Rejection in an effort to restore perfection and ever since that time, mankind has embraced Rejection’s offer to perfect our world. It promised to eradicate evil by rejecting friends, acquaintances, lovers, jobs, homes, or anything else displaying imperfection and evil.

But it didn’t work.  Rejection didn’t perfect our world and restore the Garden.

 

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