The Garden of God

What is in Your Garden?

In the beginning of all the generations of heaven and earth created as the garden of God, we have the image of God created as Man with the responsibility to have dominion over this garden and to bring into the process of reproduction according to each “kind” of creation spoken into existence by God.

Everything that was spoken by God in Genesis One came from God as thought. The spoken thought of Spirit, LOVE, LIFE, and LIGHT established “in the beginning” of ALL the generations of heaven and earth, yet nothing had a literal form in this eternal moment.

John tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:1-5).

Our hindsight vision creates a form to go along with words that we read in Genesis chapter one such as; sun, moon, stars, fish, cattle, and even Man. However, at the eternal moment that this was spoken these forms had not yet taken shape or had a literal form identification including what a human being looked like. It is in chapter two of Genesis that God brings these forms to Man to create an eternal name. If Man had called the moon a fish, then today every time we saw the moon in the evening sky we would say, “Look at the beautiful fish.”

According to Genesis 1:27, God created Man in His image and likeness; male and female He created them. Our hindsight of this word is the vision of humanity, male and female, yet humanity wasn’t created until chapter two. In chapter one we simply have God creating Man in His image and likeness to take dominion and authority over the garden and reproduce after “kind.” 

What would the act of reproducing after the image and likeness of “God Kind” look like? What male and female form does the WORD have? How does one WORD created in the image and likeness of God, known as Man, distinguish between male and female Adam (Genesis 5:1)?

John continues to share, “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision, or a husband’s will, but born of God.” (John 1:9-13).

John is unveiling a truth in these verses of how to process Genesis 1:27-28. Man, created in the image and likeness of God was not born of natural descent or of human decision, or a husband’s will from the seed of natural man. Mankind created in Genesis one was the WORD made flesh – male and female – whom God called Adam. 

In Genesis two, God brings all the creatures to Adam -male/female WORD – to place form on the creatures by giving them a name. Adam – male/female WORD – had no helpmate looking outward in the garden. God brings a deep sleep to Adam to unveil the WORD within – the womb of Man. The idea that the WORD – Adam became flesh is a place of foundation of creation LIFE. Most of us limit the idea of WORD to what we say, read, or write – a secondary extension of our humanity. However, the WORD was and is the created image of God Kind before any human form was created.

As we move into chapter three of Genesis, we find what is eatable to eat for food. Adam -male and Woman – the womb of man, are moving and functioning in glorified bodies that do not survive by natural food, but spirit food. They can find spirit food from the trees: The Tree of Life, the Tree of Knowledge, and the “other trees” in the garden. However, they are forbidden to take spiritual food from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. It is from this point on throughout time that Man has processed what the Spirit of God within us is saying versus the spirit around us.

When we move out of the literal concept of what these Scriptures are saying as a Bible story of “In the Beginning,” and ask the question, “What the WORD is saying to each of us personally” here is a direction to consider:

The Garden of God for each of us is what is going on within our thoughts, and how does it affect our heart and body? Science now shows that within our brain, on the neuron cellular level, our thoughts create images that look like “trees” in our brain. Negative thoughts will create one kind of “tree” form, and positive thoughts will create another kind of “tree” form. These “tree” forms can be little or big. The bigger the form, the more “root” of that thought is established. Often these deep “roots” are linked to generations of familiar spirits created through customs and culture beliefs. The effects of these deep roots trickle into the heart matter of situations of everyday life.

If we go to the writings of Paul in Romans, we will have familiar, theological platforms of the Roman road to salvation based on certain Scripture’s denominations have used to justify their Christian views with. That becomes their perception as a pathway for people to become a Christian with an experience referred to as “being born again.” “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).

Here are the Scriptures used as a Roman Road to Salvation:

1. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).
2. The wage of sin is [eternal] death (Romans 6:23).
3. The free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23b).
4. Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

These four Scriptures have been used as a foundation to John 3:16 in most Christian denominations. Is anyone questioning if this is the Gospel of Good News that Jesus declared in Matthew 10:7, “Go, preach, saying, the kingdom of heaven is at hand?” 

We have in Matthew Jesus making a statement about the Good News is the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, not about heaven and hell. We have in John a conversation with Nicodemus about being “born again,” yet Jesus had NOT gone to the cross yet, so their conversation was about something that did not include the cross, burial, and resurrection. Then we have Paul’s writings. Notice that the four Scriptures used as a Roman Road to Salvation have been “cherry picked” to give a message that does not flow with what Paul was writing to the Romans. Where is Romans chapters: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 -16? If this is truly the foundation of a ticket to heaven, why didn’t Paul write this to the Galatians, which is the first letter he wrote before Romans? 

Did Paul really mean for it to be a platform statement to justify heaven and hell? The historical validation of time has carried more weight as truth to Paul’s writings, than Paul’s intended Truth of what he wrote in the beginning of his writings.

It is not my intent to discuss the topic of heaven and hell or salvation using these Scriptures, but an illustration of how dogmatic and faraway from TRUTH of the intent of Paul’s message. Our perception becomes our reality, and then we believe we have the absolute understanding that will set us free, while for others our beliefs place them in bondage.

Romans chapter 7 is a discourse of Paul sharing the struggles of humanity within himself. This sharing of his personal weakness has become a platform throughout Christian history to justify that Man – male and female - will never be good enough to please God. When they come to the continuation of Paul’s writings in Romans chapter 8, people are challenged to receive their inheritance of God’s Grace and Love because they think it is something Man must do first.

“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2).

Spirit Law is established in Genesis 2:1-2. It allows a place of first mention, “as a man thinks so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Spirit Law commanded the Man – WORD to eat from all the other trees in the garden of God, process the fruit of those trees, but don’t graft it in with the Tree of Knowledge that says the other trees are good or evil. If you must process the thoughts from “other trees” perceive the fruit from the “other trees” from the fruit of the Tree of Life: Love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and temperance. If there is eternal value from the fruit of the “other trees”, then it will blend well with the fruit of the Holy Spirit. If not, then it will blend with the seasons of time.

When we take the fruit – thoughts – from the “other trees” and discern right or wrong, good or evil, heaven or hell, we bring a sin consciousness into the ways of God, the garden where we fellowship with Him in our personal thoughts. These thoughts must be circumcised by our heart, and out of our heart our mouth will create Life or Death, blessings or curses upon the creation that God called Very Good!

The Life of the flesh of Mankind is in the Blood. Whose blood is being pumped through your heart?

 

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.  And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:26-28).

 

When we obtain information from “other trees” – family, friends, media, strangers -and we don’t know what to do with the information, but their presence is a necessary part of our life, Father God has given us the ability to eat the fruit of the Holy Spirit from the Tree of Life. We become transformed by the renewing of our minds while in our natural bodies to BE the edifier and encourager to the created image of God that is still stuck in ignorance and darkness. For God so unconditionally loved ALL He created, He sent Jesus Christ to take every sin and curse of man’s thoughts and creation that came from the Tree of Knowledge (John 3:16). When we receive this unveiled blessing of LOVE, it is not only for our transformation from darkness into Light, but also to BE the Light of the world in other people’s darkness and ignorance. If we judge their darkness, we create another Tree of Knowledge.

 

When our time is completed in our natural body, and we come before the Great White Throne of Judgment, if we have grown another Tree of Knowledge in our thoughts that God did not intent to have in His garden, He may give us the keys of hell and the grave saying, “You go to where you believe hell is, and set those you judged free with My Love.”

 

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” (Matthew 7:1-2).

 

“Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.  And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.” This He said, signifying by what death He would die.” (John 12:31-33).

 

How big is your ALL? “Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26).

 

When we understand what John wrote in John chapter one about the WORD coming first as the creative “Godkind” in His image male and female, we put aside the masculine, feminine, and any other gender issues as the filtering system of “In the Beginning.” The assignment for MAN – WORD (male/female) to go forth and multiple taking dominion over the earth was a position of the WORD creation LIFE in a human form. The word we speak can bless or curse, produce life or death in this world. Those words begin with our thoughts.

 

“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8). 

 

“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Romans 12:2).