"YE
SHALL BE AS GODS"
By Melek
DiaBendia
ICONOCLAST
"Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell
you the truth?" Galatians 4:16.
All of us
have asked, "What is it all about, why are we here, why has
the Lord subjected Adamkind to this earthly realm?".
Certainly, we are not here, subjected to this corrupt
dimension of death, of our own free will, for the
scriptures say, "For the creature was made
subject to vanity,
not willingly, but by reason of Him
Who hath subjected the same in
hope." (Romans 8:20). I put it to you that we
are here "by reason of Him
Who hath subjected" us to this realm
of disappointing misery ( The Greek word translated "vanity"
means, "disappointing misery") for
purposes our Heavenly Father planned out for us before the
foundations of the world. First let us understand that,
we are not earthly flesh beings having a spiritual
experience, we are spirit beings having an
earthly flesh experience. Prior to our entering
into this earthly, temporal realm of time, space, and death
experience, we knew only the love of our Heavenly Father.
Only someone who has experienced hunger can truly appreciate
not being without. Only someone who has know sickness can
truly appreciate health. Only someone who has known pain
and loneliness can truly appreciate an existence without
it. God's purpose is to birth, as it were, His children out
of an existence as infants, and babes on milk, into a realm
of existence as full grown mature sons and daughters of God,
knowing good and evil for themselves. By subjecting us to
this vain and futile dimension of disappointing misery He
intends to increase, expand, mature, and add to His
offspring "whom He did
foreknow, and whom He
also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of His Son, that
He might be the Firstborn among many brethren." (Romans
8:29). This has been the plan and purpose of our Lord
and our God from the very beginning, for in the beginning
did He not say, "Let Us make man
(Heb. = Adam) in Our image,
after our likeness." (Gen. 1:26).
This has been and continues to be a progressive
work of our Heavenly Father. He has been from
the beginning, and He continues to be, progressively
creating us in His image. Had the work been completed
in the beginning Adam would have never fallen, for he would
have truly been in the perfect image of the Father and of
the Son, and the Father cannot fall or fail.
"And the serpent said unto the woman, "Ye shall not surely
die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then
your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evil."
(Gen. 3:4-5).
God's
plan was never in any way derailed or hindered by the
machinations of Satan. In fact Satan played his part in
the purposes of the Father perfectly, as the Lord uses
the interplay of good and evil to fulfill His plan for the
perfection and forming of His children into His exact
image. Although it is true that Adam and Eve entered into
the death process, just as the Heavenly Father had warned,
it is also true that this was our Heavenly Father's plan
for their ultimate progression into His image from the very
beginning. It was imperative that they pass through
"the Valley of the Shadow of Death" in
their journey toward being "conformed to the
image of His Son". It is also true that God
intended all along that their "eyes shall be
opened" and that they come to the
understanding of "knowing good and evil"
for themselves. For the New Testament scriptures
state, "For every one that
useth milk is unskillful in the word of
righteousness: for he is a babe.
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age,
even those who by reason of use
have their senses exercised to decern both good
and evil." (Hebrews 5:13-14). It is also
true that God intended that they become "as
gods" , for the scriptures quite clearly
state, "I have said, "Ye are gods; And
all of you are children of the Most High. But ye
shall die like men,". (Psalm 82:6-7). So
the Lord's plan and purpose all along was that, ye being
gods, should know good and evil, and that you should die
like men. Even the New Testament is clear in the words of
our Lord and Christ that, "Jesus answered them,
"Is it not written in your law, 'I
said, Ye are gods?' If he called
them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and
the scripture cannot be broken." (John
10:34-35).