I Take Off The MASK! » garden of eden http://itakeoffthemask.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:47:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Failed expectations http://itakeoffthemask.com/self-development/failed-expectations/ http://itakeoffthemask.com/self-development/failed-expectations/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 00:04:17 +0000 Joyce http://itakeoffthemask.com/self-development/failed-expectations/ [...]]]> What ails your heart, O, woman
and what ails your heart, O, man
expectations
that could not be met
needs that could not be satisfied
Did you think that by finding each other,
you could claim back your joy
in the garden of eden?
Did you think that by having found
each other,
you could reunite with your lost half
and finally be complete?
Nay, I say unto you,
for it is not each other that you have lost in the garden
and it is not each half that could
complete your empty soul
It is God's presence that you have lost
and it is only in God
where you can find your bliss
once more.

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]]> http://itakeoffthemask.com/self-development/failed-expectations/feed/ 0 What’s Wrong with the Forbidden Fruit of Eden? http://itakeoffthemask.com/garden-of-eden/whats-wrong-with-the-forbidden-fruit-of-eden/ http://itakeoffthemask.com/garden-of-eden/whats-wrong-with-the-forbidden-fruit-of-eden/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 03:42:14 +0000 Joyce http://itakeoffthemask.com/garden-of-eden/whats-wrong-with-the-forbidden-fruit-of-eden/ [...]]]>  

Why did God forbid us to eat the fruit of knowledge? If it is indeed the knowledge of good and evil, why is the knowledge of good forbidden as well?

 

Knowledge is not bad per se. But knowledge that is apart from God, that is the source of all the evils and suffering we experience today.

 

We have been tempted from the very beginning. We have been offered enlightenment in exchange for love, and we took it. We didn't know that enlightenment without love is darkness. We didn't know that knowledge apart from God is foolishness. We didn't know.

 

That is why our fall had been delayed. And that is why forgiveness had been available to men and not to angels. We have been given time. And we have been given the Ultimate Saving Sacrifice of Love. Shall we take it? Or shall we succumb to the eternal fall of living our own lives in a cold dark alley of knowledge apart from the burning love of God?

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