2022/01/24

23. The Enmity God Has Put in Place and the Worldview of Jesus Christ

When two or more people interact, there emerges accidental information.¹ It develops an illusion in the realm of the human consciousness, and a contradiction arises. People troubled by the contradiction create fiction, and when it is shared with others, the "work of man" occurs. In Genesis, when God made the man and the woman from the "man" he created first, the two inherited the words God had commanded to the "man." Then, accidental information emerged between them, who were more than one, and an illusion was developed in the realm of her consciousness. The words that God commanded to the "man": "You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; when you eat from it you shall die" (Gen. 2:16-17) were altered by the woman into the words, "[I]t is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, 'You shall not eat it or even touch it, or else you will die'" (Gen. 3:3). She suffered from the contradiction and doubted the word of God.² Then, she created a fiction, "You certainly will not die! God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know good and evil" (Gen. 3:4-5) and ate the fruit of the tree that God had forbidden. So, God put "enmity" in the realm of human consciousness, saying, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers" (Genesis 3:15). Cain, the firstborn of the man and the woman, was caught in the illusion that God looked with favor on Abel and his offering but not on him and his offering, and he got angry in the contradiction and dejected, doubting God. And Cain attacked Abel and killed him. He created a fictional world and committed the murder in it, which we can see from his answer to God, who asked where Abel was: "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" (Genesis 4:9). But the word of God, who always treated Cain with sincerity and told him the truth, made him come to himself, and he confessed his feeling and asked for forgiveness. The "enmity God has put in place" began to be activated in the realm of the human consciousness for the first time. Whenever "the enmity God has put in place" is at work, there is the word of God, who always treats people sincerely and tells the truth. The word of God enters the realm of human consciousness first. The worldview of Jesus Christ is indeed the city that receives the word of God into the unconscious realm.³

Reference  1. this blog #4, 2. Genesis 3:1, 3. Revelation 21:9-27

Maria K. M.