One Gospel One Truth

Joe McKeever "Your words have stood men on their feet." Job 4:4 June 22, 2012 As a child, I was enthralled by the story of "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves." This ancient Arabian story tells of an everyday working guy, Ali Baba, who happens to overhear thieves discussing their hidden treasure. He follows them to their cave, hears the magic words  Open Sesame  (our English version of what they said, no doubt) which opens the door, and follows them inside. There he discovers a king's ransom in jewels and gold. Later, using the (ahem) password, Ali Baba returns and helps himself to the treasure. You can see why a child would love that story. It contains so many of the elements we all like in a good story: free gold, easy living, the bad guys are conned, and simple words that do wondrous things. I don't know any magic words other than  I love you, thank you, you're beautiful/you're important/you are smart, and please.  However, in studying the Holy Script...

It all depends: What kind of truth do you want God’s word to be? We have been robbed and we are found guilty of an offense not committed by us and sent to prison on death roll.  It is an undeserved verdict that we persistently deplored.  God creates heaven and earth. He creates a man and a woman.  He puts them in a beautiful garden with one commandment; “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 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,” Gen 2:16-17.  Adam had one commandment to observe. You would think that it would be easy after all the Jews had 613 commandments under the Mosaic Law and our secular society has thousands of legislated laws. So, what happened? Adam was tricked into eating the forbidden fruit and was thrown into prison on death roll.  Him and the woman got kick out of the Garden of Eden. He lost everything.  We also, as of today, suffer the consequence...