CREATION

 

At the beginning of history, the being whom we know as "God" meticulously crafted together the great world before us. By the instrument of His word, He called forth being from non-being, and converted chaos into order. He created the heavens and the earth, and coded the laws of nature to sustain them. After the Creation was deemed to be a suitable host for life, God brought forth animal and plants. 

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God crowned His creative experiment by bringing forth us - sons and daughters- into His new home.  Collectively, we were referred to as "Mankind." Though we shared the same breath of life with animal kind, we were wholly unique in that we bore the very impress of our Father's image. 

 

We shared in our Creator's glory, and we were given express authority to reign over everything that He had wrought. We cared for Creation, and Creation yielded to us its fruit. We walked in the very presence of God. This was the first and only instance in our history that we experienced paradise - home with our Father.

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CORRUPTION

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The evil one whom we call "the Satan" seized us in our most vulnerable state - mere infants - and tempted our imaginations with sin.  The forbidden fruit of death was alluring, and we ate thereof. As a result, we were forever changed. 

 

Our appetite for sin grew, and we soon began to view God as an obstacle to our indulgence. We vilified Him, and soon the warm voice of our Father began to instill in us fear and trembling. It was not long before we abandoned Him altogether, and had  exchanged Paradise for futile notions of personal freedom. 

 

Sin's image was upon us, and we no longer had a share in God's glory. God had created life, but we wrought murder. He had made us rulers over Creation, but it now lorded over us, and we succumbed. 

 

We continued on in this fallen state, until the earth was full of our wickedness. Angered by the scourge that had claimed us, God purged our evils by means of a great deluge.  In a reversal of the prior Creation, god sought to violently excise the corruption we bore. 

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It did not work.

 

We began to arrogantly curse God as soon as we once again stood upon solid ground. Hopelessly estranged from our Father, we carried onward, erecting city and civilization in our own fallen image.

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COVENANT

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Though man had forgotten God, God did not forget man. In fact, He relentlessly sought after those lost to sin.  Out of the entire world, only one man recognized the voice of God.  He left the home of his earthly father - a representation of the comforts that godless civilization had provided - and wandered the wilderness in pursuit of the spiritual Father who had called him. 

 

God rested His favor upon the lost son who was now seen returning home, and promised to exalt him back to the former glory of paradise through a series of ordinances and rituals called "The Law."  Though some of these were seemingly harsh, they were designed to help man shed the stench that godless civilization had imparted to him. The world had set up its conception of order to govern itself, and God's way was wholly different. 

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After a period of baptizing the lost with a new way, God prepared them to carve their way home 

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CONQUEST

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Armed with The Law and a competent leader - God - man began to conquer the lands before him.  He did not do so for the end of violence, but rather to excise the evil that had nested in God's world and purge it from being a burden to good people.  

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However, without true repentance,