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Thor
Thor
The movie, Thor, is, of course, Marvel Comics’ version of the mythological character from Norse mythology. But there are a couple of important points made in the movie. The character Thor represents several different biblical principles.
Like humanity rejected from the Garden, he doesn’t obey his father (Gen. 3:12), he’s ejected from Paradise & kingship (Gen. 3:22-4), & he faces humiliation & capture by mankind (Matt. 26:57-27:14).
Charge Sheet, Sentence, Probation – For Humanity
Charges Against Humanity: Creator God v. Adam & Eve, Convicted & Sentenced But Final Judgment in Case Still Pending at Time of Christ’s First Coming
Charge Sheet
Charge 1 – Trespassing on the Sovereign God’s property, specifically His Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil Placed in the Garden of Eden
Charge 2 – Theft of property, specifically Fruit from the Aforementioned Tree
Charge 3 – Misappropriation, or Using the Gift of God, Imagination, to Form an Evil Plan Instead of Using the Gift of God to Fulfill God’s Purpose for Man’s Imagination
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The Trinity as Witnesses – Judgment
The Trinity as Witnesses – Judgment
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The Trinity, an eternally existing community of equally-divine persons living in perfect harmony & love, defines the ideal community. The Trinity explains the basis for God’s creation of plural persons & how He expects them to live in community. Otherwise, how would a single, lone Creator even have a concept of community among equals. Even if He had created angels of equal dignity, how does this Creator, who had never had to deal with anyone as an equal, teach them to live as equals?
The Legal Effects of Christ Coming to Earth as a Baby
The Legal Effects of Christ Coming to Earth as a Baby
Before we can understand the legal effect of Christ being born in a stable in Bethlehem approximately two thousand years ago, we first have to understand what the earth’s and humanity’s legal status was before.
Adam and Eve, and, by family relation, all their descendants, were criminals before God. And not just any criminals; they were traitors who had defied a specific, simple law to not eat of one of the trees in the Garden in which God had placed them. They defied God and His law, they trespassed upon property which God had reserved for Himself, they stole from that property, and they conspired with God’s chief enemy in order to attempt to take God’s rule from Him. We know this from the account in Genesis chapters Continue reading “The Legal Effects of Christ Coming to Earth as a Baby”
Adam knew the universe was created in six evenings and mornings
Adam knew the universe was created in six evenings and mornings or he would have told his descendants otherwise.
Genesis is history, not science. Genesis 1 says that Adam was created the sixth day according to Genesis 1. God rested the seventh day. Does it make any sense that God would leave Adam in the dark about the creation time period? There are two reasons in the text that show that Adam would have known the time period – the Sabbath day and Eve.
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Time Matters
The Greatest Event of All Time–Past, Present, & Future
You can rest in this: Jesus Christ has finished the work, & God’s Kingdom is now inevitable, not only because God is all-powerful but also because it legally/covenantally must succeed & conquer all, if for no other reason than the fact of Christ’s suffering, death, & resurrection. And the success of God’s kingdom is a glorious, a wonderful, a joyful thing for his covenantally faithful believers. It’s God’s promise of redemption for the earth, the heavens, all mankind. And it started with Christ’s coming to earth – the FIRST time!