The Word Before the Code

Recently, I've been closely observing creation, driven by genuine curiosity and filled with countless questions. It began by simply noticing the fascinating instincts of animals:

These creatures do more than survive. They perform, plan, sacrifice, collaborate, deceive, and sometimes give everything. Their lives unfold like poetry, patterned, purposeful, and choreographed.

And so I began to wonder: "Who or what directs this intricate dance?"

Chance or design?

The frog doesn't understand the physics of its leap, yet its body obeys flawlessly.
The elephant can't chart a map, yet its memory preserves generations of sacred routes. Bees, whales, ants, and wolves—all acting in ways they don't fully comprehend, yet fulfilling roles critical to their survival.

This logic permeates nature: seasons changing, animal migrations, planetary movements, even molecular bonds and DNA. Patterns layered within patterns, interconnected in ways both obvious and deeply mysterious.

The wonder and complexity of biological life is difficult to understate. Humans are so used to the miracle of life which flourishes and fluctuates all around them, that it is easy to forget that biology is, at core, not magic, but matter. It is a combination of chemical elements like carbon, which may be found elsewhere in the universe in distinctly non-living forms.

Life, like truth and time, is very easy to recognise, but difficult to define. What makes living matter different than non-living matter? As difficult as it is to say, one feature which definitely sets life apart is its ability to self-replicate. While most multicellular organisms reproduce sexually, the very cells that exist within them are perpetually dying, reproducing, and expanding. This is a property found in no other chemical combination in the known universe, and it is made possible thanks to two tiny molecular machines engaged in an elaborate and ongoing dance: DNA and RNA.

While the geological processes within planets and the thermonuclear processes in stars are fascinating and complex, neither is so dynamic as the way in which life grows, learns, responds to its environment, evolves, and behaves. It is this very dynamism which has led people throughout history to marvel at life and conclude that there must be a mind behind it all. But is this merely a superstitious instinct passed down through the ages, or is there some reality to this belief?

Looking back across the ages, sceptics have noted that people always seem to ascribe to the supernatural what has proven to be quite natural. In ancient times, people left thunder and volcanoes, the rising of the sun, and the seasons themselves in the domain of the gods. These, we gradually learned, had ordinary physical explanations. Isaac Newton, for all his brilliance, did leave room for God to shepherd the planets in their unusual movements, which later proved to be quite natural when the baton was passed to the ingenious Mister Einstein.

Because of this long history of the complexity of the universe being shown to have entirely natural causes, when something like the mystery of the universe’s origin or the enigma of DNA are laid upon the table as proof for God, sceptics do what sceptics do, and remain very sceptical. The term “god of the gaps” was coined to describe the way in which humans seem to always use God as an explanation for things unknown – an explanation which proves unnecessary as science progresses.

However, it is not what we don’t know about DNA which causes us to grasp toward God, but rather what we do know. We have mapped the human genome in its entirety, are quite aware of its exact structure and function, and the sequences in other life forms across the planet are not far behind. In other words, there are fewer “gaps” into which a God may be shoved.

I argue that it is this very comprehensive knowledge of the inner workings of the genetic world which make God seem like a possibility – even a probability. But how so?

DNA: The Language of Life

Life, from the most complex creature to the simplest bacterium, cannot exist without DNA.

No matter how insignificant a life form is, it contains some kind of DNA or RNA. DNA consists of two long molecules winding around one another, and joining together by nitrogenous “base pairs” like rungs along a ladder.

There are four different nucleotides which may be combined to make base pairs. It is through these four nucleotides that all of the information within a DNA strand is encoded. The English alphabet has 26 letters which may be combined in any particular order to make any of over 170,000 words. Those words form sentences, which form paragraphs, which form books, which communicate the sum total of human knowledge. Genetic code contains only four letters. The four letters contained in the DNA code - A, C, T, and G – can be combined in any order to make up the over 7 - 8.5 million species living on this planet – each individual of which has a unique set of DNA. The DNA contains the blueprint for the form of the entire organism it helps to produce.

When the Human Genome Project mapped out the details of human genetics, what it discovered was language – information – which could literally be read and interpreted in order to discover the design of the human body.

In order to grasp the significance of finding language encoded in DNA, it is important to have some idea of the significance of language.

Take a word like “love.” This simple, four-letter word has taken an expansive idea which is part of the human experience, encoded it in a simple form, and transmitted it to the reader. If a man says “I love you” to his child, he has used three words to communicate a massive truth which has significant effects on his child’s world.

This is the nature of language, it encodes large ideas in simple terms, transmits those ideas, at which point the idea emerges on the other side.

This is the nature of DNA. Within this tiny molecule is contained the blueprint for an entire body. As scientists seriously consider taking ancient DNA discovered in the frozen bodies of mammoths, and from these tiny strands bringing the extinct creature back to life, they demonstrate the capacity for DNA to transmit information.

Given that DNA is unmistakably a form of language, it implies a mind behind the language.

“Intelligent design” argues in much the same way as I have above, that the specified and irreducible complexity of life as we know it is best explained by an intelligent designer, and not by natural processes.

Ancient Questions, Ancient Answers

Humans uniquely question this. Only humans ask: "Who created this? Why are we here?" Why are we uniquely aware and curious about this deeper reality?

These are questions that have bothered human civilisation through the ages, and these are difficult questions, if not some of the most hardest questions. The entire religious, philosophical, and scientific enterprise of the human race for the past multiple millennia has been pursuing our upward aim for truth.

When solving problems: the older the problem, the older the solution.

If you’re trying to learn how to drive a car or fly a plane, you should read something written in the modern age because this problem was created in the modern age and the solution is great in the modern age.

If you’re talking about an old problem like how to keep your body healthy, how to stay calm and peaceful, what kinds of value systems are good, how you raise a family, and those kinds of things, the older solutions are probably better.

Any book that survived for two thousand years has been filtered through many people. The general principles are more likely to be correct.

A man is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before me. (John 1:30)

He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

My journey toward truth led me to ancient scriptures.

"The gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it." (Matthew 7:14)

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11)

The Bible is completely unambiguous as to where life comes from.

"For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made." (Romans 1:20)

"For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. (17) He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." (Colossians 1:16,17)

Everything that we can see or perceive and even things we can’t see were created and are now sustained by God. Notice carefully the wording of the final sentence. And in Him all things hold together. The text clearly tells us that the life force that comes forth from God holds the whole universe together.

This clearly indicates that the life is not simply gifted to us as a one- time package but continually comes to us in a constant stream.

From the beginning, the universe was intentionally created, sustained by a divine logic, a divine Word:

"In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… Through him, all things were made." (John 1:1-3)

Life was the original state of creation, designed to reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1:11).

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth ... From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. (27) God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. (28) ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ (Acts 17:24-28)

If we live in Him, or live by a direct stream from Him, it is obvious that we can’t live without Him.

...apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)

Up until this point we have been focusing on the sheer physicality of life. But when the Bible states all things come from Him, this means all things spiritual, mental and physical. We are vitally dependent on God for life, every moment of every day, not just physical life, but mental and spiritual life.

God is love and as He operates His kingdom with love, love can only exist with choice; choice to accept or reject God. The rejection of God causes death, because God is the only one that possesses life in Himself and the only one that can give life.

But without this power to choose, love cannot exist. Life without choice is robotic and automated.

Submission: The Key Principle

The ability to maintain life with the life source is a simple matter of submission. If we wish to have this life, we must be in a submissive state to receive it. If we wish to have this life, we must recognize God as the author and therefore the supreme authority of life.

Life can only be received by a submission of the will in love to the life giver.

There must be a close and intimate relationship where the one receiving life finds pure joy and happiness in submission to the authority of the life giver.

Since submission is such a vital point, it is important for God, the source of life, to provide us with an example or examples of how this submission process works.

The universe needs a demonstration of how to live in a submissive state, how to receive this life and how to relate to the life source.

The example of such submission would become the pivotal point of a kingdom based on a belief in a single life source flowing out to all living creatures.

God has provided this example in the person of His Son. God’s Son provides the divine example of loving submission to the life source authority.

Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. (John 5:19)

I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. (John 5:30)

And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him." (John 8:29)

Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" (6) Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:5,6)

The life of Jesus, the Son of God, demonstrates for the universe the critical example of submission to God. In beholding the relationship of Jesus to the Father, we find the key of how life can be received and maintained in a loving and intimate relationship.

For this reason, the relationship between the Father and the Son is the most critical element for the survival of God’s kingdom as revealed in the Bible.

Without this example of Jesus, the Son of God, we would lose the most vital clue of how to live in a submissive relationship to God. This is why Jesus is the Way to the Father. This is why Jesus is our example in all things.

The Tree of Knowledge

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; (17) but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." (Genesis 2:16-17 )

We might ask the question, why did God allow such a tree to exist in the beautiful and perfect garden? Why did God allow a symbol of death to exist and be in reach of Adam and Eve?

Remembering that God is love, (1 John 4:7,8) the only way for love to exist is to provide opportunity to choose against God.

If Adam and Eve had no opportunity to choose against God, then they could not really experience love. Love is an active choice of the will to be loyal and true to the one we claim to love. The Tree of Knowledge was a symbol of choice.

In obedience to the commandment “you will not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,” Adam and Eve were acting out their willing submission to the life flowing forth from the throne of God; (Rev 22:1) they were maintaining their relationship to Him.

To choose to eat from the tree was to no longer submit to God and therefore break the relationship, and in breaking the relationship, the life would stop flowing and they would die – cease to exist.

The whole process was quite simple.

The Serpent’s Origins

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" (2) And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; (3) but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' " (4) Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. (5) For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (6) So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. (Genesis 3:1-6)

The story introduces a serpent who apparently has the gift of speech. Secondly, we have Eve standing in front of the forbidden tree alone.

It would be nice to have a bit more of the story line of how these two things occurred, but the Bible does not tell us. Who is this serpent? The Bible tells us clearly in the book of Revelation.

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; (Revelation 12:9)

The serpent of old is the devil or Satan and he is a deceiver. So Satan somehow manages to impersonate or pretend to be a serpent and is speaking to Eve.

Another question we must ask is where did Satan come from? If God created all things, then did God create Satan? These questions need to be answered if we want to get to the bottom of where inherent life source models came from.

"You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. (15) You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you... (17) Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor” (Ezekiel 28:14-15,17)

"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! (13) For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; (14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.' (Isaiah 14:12-14)

Satan, formerly called Lucifer, was the anointed cherub who stood on the holy Mountain of God next in line after God and His Son. He was the most senior angel in heaven.

The Bible says that “you were perfect in your ways from the days you were created.” So God created Lucifer perfect. But then it says that iniquity or sin/evil was found in him. What was this iniquity found in Lucifer?

We are told that Lucifer’s heart was lifted up because of his beauty and splendor. It is important to remember that in God’s Kingdom, only He has the power to give life; every other intelligent being can only have this life through a submissive relationship to God.

Lucifer had the clear example of God’s Son of how we should relate to the Father. The Son of God did not boast about His abilities, glory and splendor; He trusted implicitly in His Father and rested in His love and blessing and executed His commands faithfully.

I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. (John 5:30)

And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. (John 8:29)

He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will." (Matthew 26:39)

The Rejection of Wisdom

Lucifer corrupted his wisdom for the sake of his splendor. The truth is that the role of the Son of God as a divine submissive agent is the true wisdom of God.

Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1:24)

The power of God comes to us in following the example of the Son of God and this is wisdom. Proverbs puts it this way:

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." (Proverbs 9:10)

Fear means to submit to, respect, take seriously. A true knowledge of Christ’s submission to the Father is true understanding and brings life.

In refusing to follow the example of the Son of God, Lucifer was rejecting the wisdom of God; in turning away from Christ, he was cutting himself off from the only means of knowing how to connect to the source of life.

In this sense Christ is the real Tree of Life of which the one planted in Eden was a channel. But Lucifer did not want to follow the divine example of God’s Son; he chose to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.” He wanted to have the same role as the Father.

The Father did not submit to anyone, He was under no one’s authority, He was in complete control and this is what Lucifer wanted. This aspiration was blasphemy and indeed would open the universe to the knowledge of evil.

Lucifer and therefore he was a son of God by creation. Lucifer had forgotten this very important principle:

Thus says the Lord: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; (24) But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the Lord. (Jeremiah 9:23-24)

Lucifer sought to find glory in his splendor, rather than in knowing God and being under His blessing. In the rejection of Christ and His example, Lucifer forgot that all things come ultimately from the Father.

He began to believe that the things he had received were actually things he possessed in himself.

Thus death emerged first through rebellion, initially introduced when Lucifer and other angels chose separation from God, resulting in spiritual death and chaos that extended into God's treasured creation—humanity.

Humanity, created in God's image, was corrupted by seeking knowledge of good and evil, life and death, a divine knowledge reserved only for God (Genesis 3:5).

This knowledge separated us from our Creator, bringing physical and spiritual death.

Why Was Satan Allowed to Live?

One question that must be asked is: If all life comes from God and Lucifer rejected the means of obtaining that life, why didn’t he die? Why didn’t he cease to exist immediately?

Firstly, since Lucifer was created by God, he was one of His created sons. God was long suffering with Lucifer as he wrestled with whether he would fully reject God’s authority or not. As the Bible teaches:

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)

Secondly, if Lucifer suddenly perished without his ideas being allowed to develop, doubts could remain in the hearts of the other angels as to whether Lucifer was right.

Lucifer challenged the system of God’s governance; he challenged His law and questioned why they needed God’s Son as an authority over the angels.

Lucifer reasoned that they were intelligent enough to guide themselves without needing the example of the divine submissive agent to lead them. We see evidence of this undermining of the role of God’s Son in the following Bible passages:

that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. (John 5:23)

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, (6) who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. (Philippians 2:5-6 )

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. (1 John 2:23 )

As we have stated, Lucifer did not want to accept the authority of God’s Son. He did not want to honour Christ as he honoured the Father, and he refused to see Christ as equal to the Father and necessary to the order of the universe.

During this questioning time in Lucifer’s mind, he convinced one third of the angels that he was right and that he had a better idea for how to govern the universe.

And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. (4) His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. (Revelation 12:3-4)

We are told here that the dragon or serpent drew a third of the stars of heaven. Stars are an expression of God’s children, and the stars were from heaven, meaning the angels.

When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? (Job 38:7)

Lucifer had to be given time to develop his ideas so that the universe could determine which system was best. It was the only way for intelligent minds to deal with the propositions that Lucifer was making.

We might wish that we would just accept what God says and leave it at that, but as we all know, in nearly every case we have to learn for ourselves the truth or falsehood of something.

So God allowed Lucifer to develop his ideas to the point where Lucifer felt he could take control of the universe. His intent was to destroy the Son of God, because He was the only true example of divine submission to the life source of the Father.

If he could remove Christ, he could remove the Father’s authority base and collapse the whole system. How do we know that Lucifer, now Satan, wanted to destroy Christ? When Jesus spoke to the Pharisees, He made this revealing statement:

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. (John 8:44)

From the very beginning, Satan had thoughts of murder for Christ. The Pharisees’ desire to kill Jesus was simply an echo of what Satan had wanted all along.

Back in the beginning none of the angels really knew what was in Lucifer’s heart, but when God allowed His Son to come to this earth and die, Satan’s desires were fully revealed. This war continues to rage.

And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought... (Revelation 12:7)

The name Michael means “One who is like God;” it is another name for the Son of God.

Since Satan pressed the issue and wanted to take control, he could no longer feel at home in heaven.

but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. (Revelation 12:8)

Answers for the Angels

While all this was taking place, God pressed ahead with His plan to create the Earth. Satan had raised questions about the position of God’s Son, and so God designed a unique and very special creation that would help to explain the relationship between Himself and His Son. After creating all the environment, fish, bird life and animals, God said to His Son:

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." (Genesis 1:26)

The husband and wife relationship was an image of the Father and Son relationship and would help answer questions that Satan had raised.

Eve is our key earthly example of submission to a designated life source. Her role was a vital expression of what God’s Son is to the Father. It was also an important lesson for the angels in heaven.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. (8) For man is not from woman, but woman from man. (9) Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. (10) For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. (1 Corinthians 11:7-10)

The submissive role of Eve to her husband was a vital piece of evidence in the war against Satan and his kingdom principles. As long as Adam and especially Eve existed, she would prove a continual reminder to the universe of the principle of submission to the life source. Satan had to get to her somehow.

It appears that God allowed Satan to come to earth, but he could only find access to Adam and Eve from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

By allowing this, God could not be accused of withholding from Adam and Eve the opportunity to choose to follow Satan, but it also was an added opportunity for Adam and Eve to show their loyalty to God and remain submitted to Him.

As long as they avoided that tree, there would be no issue.

The Rebellion

We remember that Satan was lifted up because of his beauty and splendor, so his view of life was that it was inherent; it originates within yourself. Notice how Satan presents this concept to Eve:

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" (2) And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; (3) but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' " (4) Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. (5) For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:1-6)

Satan moves directly to the issue that involves the power to choose – The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. He then questions “did God really say you can’t eat from this tree?”

This brought the expected response from Eve that to eat from the tree would break the relationship with God and therefore death would occur. This is exactly what Satan wanted her to say to allow him the opportunity to introduce his life source model of inherent power.

He says “you will not surely die”. This statement is the origin of the inherent life source system. Satan states clearly that you don’t need to be in a close relationship with God to keep living. He then craftily links entrance into this new system with eating the fruit from the tree.

Believing that you would not surely die means you would have to believe you were a god; for to believe that you possess your own life source is to claim divinity at some level.

The eating from the tree was to seal this belief and to cause Eve to transfer into the new kingdom. The new belief needed to be sealed with action, and sadly Eve took that action. The Bible indicated that Eve was deceived or beguiled into taking this action:

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:3)

Eve did not realize that in taking the fruit and believing she had an internal life source, she not only severed her intimate relationship with God but now carried the seeds of a rejection of her husband’s headship.

Eve had received everything she was via her husband, but this new belief via the serpent would radically alter her relationship to Adam.

Instead of being a representation of Christ’s submission to His Father, she would now reflect Satan’s rebellion to the heavenly Father. Satan felt he had now eliminated the submissive principle that reflected God’s kingdom on earth.

If Eve could now be an agent to convince or persuade Adam, then the designated human life source would be infected with this inherent life source model which denies the role of Christ to the Father, and this would make certain that every descendent of Adam would be born with that mindset.

Adam immediately grasped the situation and understood its implications. By taking the fruit and eating it, Adam willfully rejected the authority of God and now polluted the human life flow; ensuring that every human being would be infected with Satan’s belief that life is inherent and we need not depend on anyone.

This is the substance of what Paul means when he says:

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned. (Romans 5:12)

The human race had now lost its vital principles of submission to the life source flowing from God.

The Solution

Yet God, in His infinite wisdom and grace, anticipated this rebellion and corruption. He had a plan before creation itself:

"The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world." (Revelation 13:8)

Christ entered creation as a sacrifice, reconciling all things back to Himself, restoring the connection to eternal life. He became wisdom itself:

"It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption." (1 Corinthians 1:30)

Christ Himself declared:

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)

Through Christ's sacrifice, humanity was given a pathway back to the original design, a connection restored not through knowledge alone, but through divine relationship.

Christos

God could not approach us from the outside directly; instead He chose to become permanently connected to the human race through His Son. By allowing His Son to become one of us, He could reconnect the channel of blessing to continue the life and blessing stream but also place Himself in a position to confront this lie head-on.

This lie resided in the nature of man and by taking this nature upon Himself, He could overcome it and destroy it.

It was not enough for Jesus to simply appear like a human and demonstrate the correct relationship to God – this would not tackle the lie of inherent life source.

He had to take the rebellious nature into Himself and destroy it in the grave. So the Bible states:

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh [human nature physical and moral] and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, [through the lie of inherent life] that is, the devil; (Hebrews 2:14)

For verily he took not on him the [submissive, dependent] nature of angels; but he took on him the [rebellious, independently minded] seed of Abraham. (17) Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. (Hebrews 2:16,17 )

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (33) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. (34) Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Romans 8:32-34)

All of these things would be provided through the gift of God’s Son to the world. This whole process was outlined to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:15:

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

This verse is so full of promise and hope. God said He would put enmity between Satan and the woman; He would do this by allowing His Son to become one with us and reconnecting the channel of blessing.

This channel would allow physical life to continue to flow to us as well as encourage correct thoughts about God to influence our minds. The reconnection of the channel in the person of the Son of God would give mankind a conscience and a choice.

Both thought streams would now flow through the human race: one from the first Adam which expresses the lie of independence and results in death; the other from the Second Adam which encourages obedience and dependence along with life to give us time to choose which side we would follow. Hence we are told:

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening [life-giving] spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45)

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17)

It made complete sense that the Son of God should become one of us and challenge this independent spirit, because the Son is the divine expression of submission and obedience.

His entire identity and purpose is connected with this principle and therefore He was the only one who could engage this mission.

We have much to be thankful for.

What an incredible God to do all this for us! We as a race of people were totally lost and enslaved to Satan’s evil ways.

We were totally beyond helping ourselves, doomed to misery and total destruction. But our tender heavenly Father refused to give up on us. He has given to us the most precious thing He has – His Son.

Jesus will forever be one of the human family and one of us. It is a sacrifice that will be the central theme for study and meditation for the rest of eternity.

The infinite choosing finitude, the Creator stepping into the story, rewriting it from within, reconciling creation back to its original purpose—life and relationship.

This truth points to a purpose behind reality and that it isn't merely survival, but love.

Love surpasses logic yet resonates undeniably true:

"The foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom." (1 Corinthians 1:25)

Now, as I observe creation, I’m filled with wonder and even greater curiosity.

Perhaps the universe isn't merely an impersonal code but a personal story unfolding, authored intentionally by One deeply involved, watching, guiding, and inviting us closer.

"The Word sees you, and the Word is good."