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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shined in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1:1–5, Holy Bible).

And thus began, the spiritual Creation of Humankind by the Word of God who spoke the Light into being. Thus, in God was life. And light proceeds from Life. Light and Darkness were created together; but the Darkness could not understand the Light.

“For God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.” (1 Corinthians 14:33).

Truth chases out ignorance and love chases out fear. Darkness tends to instill fear due to confusion; as Light tends to instill peace due to clarity.

And love casts out fear, because, in love, there is understanding, and thus, repentance. Peace chases out confusion, because in peace, there is forgiveness, patience and forbearance. (1 John 4:18).

Love, peace, understanding, patience, and forbearance nourish Liberty from which ensues freedom. Freedom brings joy that produces endurance and thus grace!

“Law” is “the right way” to do something “truly real.” How do we go from “law” to “grace?”

“For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17).

We have to begin “on the same page.” Human reasoning alone cannot do genuine credit to God’s love for us. But only through the Holy Spirit of God, can we gain a fuller, deeper, and more complete comprehension of our “reasons for living.” Otherwise, misunderstandings and misinterpretations might creep in, so as to either drive the message to confusion or to the wrong conclusions.

Did not the Devil deceive Adam and Eve, our Forbears, through “his deceitful reasoning,” in order to annul the efficacy or “right working” of the commandment or “law” which God had given them, not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, lest they shall die? (Genesis 2:15–17).

But did God “kill them” because of their disobedience? They did not “die” right away, but became mortal. Mortality came with their commission of the sin of disobedience. Violation of the “law” or “commandment” gave birth to “moral conscience” or the “foreknowledge” of the difference between right and wrong, and between good and evil. They could no longer “stay in the presence of the Lord.” For, now, “their eyes were opened.” They had gained “understanding.” Thus, they “hid from God.” (Genesis 2:25; 3:4–5).

What was their “punishment?” God showed or demonstrated how His “loving grace” would “work right” to lead Humankind into the “path of righteousness,” in order that the guilt and shame associated with the sin of disobedience might dissipate, so as to give birth to peace, liberty, freedom, patience, endurance, and thus, “prosperity.” God showed them Mercy!

But now, they would have to only “pursue a life of travail.”

“Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.”

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” (Genesis 3:17–24).

Now that Adam and Eve had eaten out of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they became mortal, and thus, God prevented them from eating out of the tree of life, which would allow them to live forever.

“And the Lord said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever: Therefore the Lord sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”

God made “coats of skins, and clothed them.” That was the first “animal sacrifice” as “atonement for sin.” (Genesis 3:21). For “life is in the blood.” And no person shall eat of it! (Leviticus 17:10)

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.” (Leviticus 17:11).

God did not institute “Human sacrifice” for sin atonement; only pagan cultures had practiced “Human sacrifice” to the false “gods” which they thought they were worshipping. God had another plan for saving Humanity.

“You shall make for yourselves no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image in your land, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it. For I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 26:1)

“Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary.” (Leviticus 26:2).

Thus, from the beginning, God had forbidden any erection of stone in the land as “a house for His Spirit,” or any engraved image that would “represent Him” on the Earth, but rather commanded the Israelites to show reverence for sabbaths (days of worship) and “my sanctuary.”

So, we’ve decided to begin at the Beginning: The Book of Genesis wherein is proclaimed, the Creation of the whole universe by God, as well as of all life as we know it.

But we will consider the life of Human Beings of primary, first, importance in regards to addressing the questions posed above.

The Holy Bible tells us that after creating Humankind, male and female, in the Garden of Eden, clear and certain were God’s instructions to them not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that is at the center of the Garden. But they did eat.

They were deceived by the Devil, Satan, Lucifer who took the beastly form of a Serpent and lied to them by counter-posing another narrative that “finessed” the deadly consequences that God had said would ensue from disobedience of His instructions.

Satan told them that they won’t surely die, but that, instead, they will become “like God.” (Genesis 3:4–5; Proverbs 12:6; 14:12; 16:25). Thus, from the start, Satan had coveted God’s throne as a prize to grasp in order to, himself, rule and lord it over the whole Creation.

Thus, did Humankind “fall from God’s grace;” and God cast them out of the Garden as all of the participants received their due punishment, respectively: God instituted Human labor, precautions to safeguard knowledge of “the tree of life,” eternal life, that is, as well as established Mortality unto the “existence” of Human Beings, sum of which, to yield humility, prevent arrogance, avert foolhardiness, and therefore, to produce wisdom. (Proverbs 11:2)

God looked at all His creation and it grieved His heart deeply to witness how the character of the deceiver, Satan, had been imprinted upon the minds and hearts of Human Beings whom God had created “unto His own image and likeness.” Not only Humans were now sinful by fashioning their behavior to follow the character of Satan, they also became mortal. That means Human Beings now had “a span of life,” that is: They lived only for a short time as opposed to “living forever.” Human Beings would live: from conception and birth, to development and growth, to maturity and old age, and then, from senility to death.

“For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.” (Romans 4:15).

“Apart from the law sin lies dead.” (Romans 7:8)

“For no human being will be justified in His sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.” (Romans 3:20).

After Adam and Eve had eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, “their eyes were opened,” and knowing now that they were naked, they covered themselves with “fig leaves” as aprons, and then hid themselves from God’s presence. (Genesis 3:7)

But God was gravely concerned about, not only about Adam and Eve’s “way of life” that would end in biological death, as mortal Beings, but also about their spiritual destiny, because they were created in His own image and likeness or in “the image and likeness of God.” (Genesis 1:26–27).

Though we could no longer “live forever,” Human Beings were not simply physical biological Beings. They were also spiritual Beings who, in addition, possessed a Soul; hence, the Scriptures’ pronouncement that: “The soul that sinneth shall die.” (Ezekiel 18:20).

The soul comprises the mind or intellect, or “the cognitive domain;” the emotions, or feelings, or “the affective domain;” and the will to do, to act, to move, to create and produce or, “the psycho-motor domain.”

The Holy Bible tells us that God is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty; hence, the proscription against making any graven or stone image or other forms of physical representation of God. (2 Corinthians 3:17–18).

Animals that are “lower forms of life” do not possess “free will.” They can’t know either their own essential nature or their own eternal destiny. And they don’t have the knowledge of good and evil. Only Human Beings do.

Thus, Human free will sets us apart from the “lower life forms.” Animals are genetically designed or “pre-wired,” so to speak, to act upon “instinct,” or to behave “as programmed by their DNA,” without the benefit of free will or of the knowledge of their earth condition or mode of existence. But animals will only execute crude reiterative routines of acting in certain specific ways, under corresponding circumstances, that are “attached” to the specific Species to which they belong. Consequently, animal “actions” are “Species-specific.” They do not have free will as we do. Their “instinctual routines,” such as “fight or flight,” follow specific patterns and sequences of behavior that are akin to the Species to which they belong.

For examples, wolves travel in packs whereby one amongst them is the dominant one over all the others, until displaced by another wolf that challenges its “leading the pack.” Wolves devour sheep as prey. Hence, the need for a Shepherd to guide and protect the sheep.

Bees have queens whose “leadership patterns” imitate those of the wolf pack, in addition, to “specializing” in “making honey.” Everywhere on the earth, “honey bees” will engage in “making honey” in accordance with the “wired instinctual instructions” that already predispose them to “make honey” at infinitum until death.

But, though Human Beings also display reiterative patterns of behavior, such as eating, sleeping, reproducing, etc . . . , that are also considered “genetic predispositions,” however, because they have freedom of volition, Humans also have the liberty to decide which actions they will take. God is Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, hence, having “the image and likeness of God” our Creator is the only Source of our freedoms. (2 Corinthians 3:17–18).

Such free will characteristics or freedom of volition, does not belong to the lower species of animals that, as long as they exist, continue to exhibit the same patterns and sequences of behavior, as required per certain specific conditions, that are both environmentally and genetically predetermined. Hence, God’s commandments against making graven images resembling animals or erections of stone pillars.

But did not Aaron the priest “mess up” by letting the children of Israel build a “golden calf?” Hence, why God will change the priesthood!

Given that we were created in the image and likeness of God, we have certain characteristic gifts or endowments akin to those of our Creator. We have the predisposition to think freely, that is, without hindrance or compulsion. We own a range of emotions or feelings that are sometimes “sensitively dependent” upon circumstances we have to deal with.

But because we do have free will, we can also decide how we will respond to situations we encounter in life. Love is more than a mere “feeling.” True love is a willful act of making a decision to “do the Truth in love.”

“Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” (Genesis 15:6; 21:12; Romans 4:4; 9:7; Hebrews 11:18).

We observe that, more and more, God would expect Humans to reflect His character-qualities and abstract endowments that focused their attention away from the flesh to rather concentrate their energies on what is spiritual. Abraham’s faith in God was his righteousness; his actions would then only align with the faith in which he had already chosen to believe: He believed God; and thus, obedience followed as an act of free will!

Therefore, because we are “spirit-beings,” it is our faith governing our actions, through obedience of God’s commandments that gives life to “righteousness” within our hearts.

We are not called to “worship the flesh” or “the human body.” The flesh perishes but the spirit lives forever. (John 6:63). For it is only through reflecting “the image and likeness of God” within us that we can relate to each other with love, Mercy, grace, justice, compassion, and charity.

God is one, but we’re many; and so different from one another in many ways that cater to external appearance. But God judges us “according to the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7).

“But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”

Did Satan use force or violence against Adam and Eve; or did he use “convincing words” that persuaded them “from the heart,” to disobey, rather than obey God’s commands?

But, contrarily, Satan had not remained “as an angel” during this devious act of deception. He took “physical form” in order to “access the hearts” of Adam and Eve. It was therefore a “spiritual deception” rather than a forceful act of compulsory submission.

Satan had become a Serpent in Eden. But Christ Jesus became a Man. (Philippians 2:5–8).

Christ embodied “the image and likeness of God” as well as “the heart of God.” His thoughts and actions, both, reflected the intrinsic character of His heavenly Father, our heavenly Father, Almighty God. (Mark 6:34; 10:18; Colossians 1:15–20). Thus, though Christ became a Man, He was also “God in the flesh!” Hence, why He rose from the dead as prophesied! (John 1:1–14). Only by taking the form of a Man, a Human Being, like us, could Jesus freely entreat us to follow Him from heartfelt conviction by faith. (Philippians 2:9–11).

From the start then, God had showed compassion for our Humanity, and love for God in us in the form of His own image and likeness, by approaching us with the same image He possessed, that of the Father, rather than “the image of the beast.” (John 14: 6–7; Revelation 13:15–18).

What do those things mean ultimately: Freedom of thought, freedom to experience a complex repertoire of emotions; and self-awareness, moral conscience, or our self-conscious acknowledgement of our “free will?”

Here, we are encountering the Soul of Human Beings: Whereas animals “adapt to their environment,” Human Beings spiritually frame their living existence, in ways that are independent of environmental conditions, or of Species-specific, “genetically wired” forms of behavioral actions.

We can “transform the environment” to accommodate our desires, for the fulfillment of our needs. Beneficent transformation of our environment also hinges upon our converted hearts and transformed minds unto God’s ways of righteousness rather than from our clinging to “the image of the beast,” thus resulting in destruction, chaos, violence, and death. (Romans 12:1–2; 1 Corinthians 2:16).

For example, we can choose when we go to sleep or when we eat; we invent and design machines that can change the temperature of our dwellings, in response to seasonal variations. In Summer, we utilize “air conditioning;” and in the Winter, heat from an equipment designed for “temperature control,” a manufactured furnace.

God did not “take the lives” of our “Eden ancestors” when they sinned. Nor did they die immediately; but they did inherit mortality. Eventually, intrinsic to our biological genetic design, is the termination of our lives, otherwise called “death.”

Human Beings were free from the beginning, first from sin, and thus, from guilt or condemnation. Hence God’s plan to restore His relationship with us through Christ Jesus whose blood cleanses us from all sin, and therefore, erases our guilt and blots out our condemnation. (Romans 8:1–11).

But that had changed when our “Garden ancestors,” Adam and Eve, disobeyed God’s commandment. Innocence, once lost, could not be “regained;” but only tempered with self-control which we obtain from hearing and doing God’s Word through principles of righteous faith given to us by Christ under the New Covenant of love and peace, Mercy and grace. (2 Timothy 1:7).

Even when casting them out of the Garden, God did not abolish, nor extinguish their freewill. God had gifted them with liberty, since from the time of Creation, but, which they chose to exercise against God’s instructions, due to the devil’s deceitful lies that contradicted the edicts, laid down by God regarding the deadly consequences of deliberate disobedience.

We are certain then, that, Human liberty did not randomly emerge, or accidentally sprout, from “environmental adaptations,” sums of which, have not abated unto dissolution, nor disappeared, nor ceased.

Given that, even after presumably “billions of years of evolution,” we still get bacterial and viral infections; we must drink water when thirsty, lest we dehydrate, or become eventually desiccated. We’ve not “evolved” into “another Species” for which we would then become “biological missing links,” as professed by Evolutionists. Apes are still here with us on the Earth; nor have they “evolved” into any intelligent forms of life above the lower animals.

Nor did Human Liberty anarchically proceed from experiences arising without cause, or from randomly occurring phenomena. A chaotic explosion like the so-called “big bang” would disperse Matter and Energy and not coalesce into any form of objects that we call “Stars” and “Planets.” From Genesis, and the Prophets, we definitely learn from God’s Word, that God did not create us “a chaos,” but a well-organized order of structured phenomena proceeding in accordance with intrinsic laws that govern their operations. (Isaiah 45:18–21).

Cause-and-effect is a scientific principle applied in all fields of knowledge, regardless of so-called “random fluctuations” within “the quantum realm.” Such “fluctuations,” are also due to physical cause-and-effect mechanisms yet to be discovered, e.g., the orbital trajectory or path of a “nearly mass-less,” Electron, still possessing “significant mass” for revolving around the atomic nucleus as affected by nano-Gravity-Forces and nano-Electromagnetic-Forces.

Every “law of Physics” is effectual or applies within a specific range of coverage. Newton’s Law of Gravitation could not be continuously extended in application to explain “the perihelion Shift of Planet Mercury;” it took Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, which picked-up “where Newton had left off” to explain such a significant orbital Shift.

Thus, even “laws” have limits in their application or range of effective coverage. It is not by accident that the Star in our Solar System can “accommodate” only a specific number of Planets, given the limits controlled by its size, mass, electromagnetic and gravity force exertions.

Because of our having gained “knowledge of good and evil,” Human liberty must also be characterized by certain “boundaries” or “limits,” which are set by what we call “rules, laws, regulations, or statutes.”

Such “regulations” or “laws” guide, instruct, inform, or direct our choices when we must decide the types of actions or kinds of behaviors we can freely engage in.

However, such actions, deeds, works, or behaviors allow us to engage within “a range of freedom” that must conform to those regulated prescriptions or proscriptions, “as applicable by law.”

“Laws” must safeguard our liberty while simultaneously determining “the range of behaviors” we can freely and deliberately engage in; that is, according to their prescribed boundaries and limits that encompass their “ranges of freedom.”

We have the God-given inalienable “right to own property;” but there are regulated ways that frame our ability to acquire property, justly, peacefully, rightly, and lawfully; that is, without injury or harm to other Human Beings.

“Thou shalt not steal” is the foundation upon which lawful ownership of property is erected. Property can be a free gift to a person, as granted by the owner of that specific property. Property can also be lawfully earned through labor or work for which wages are paid. Property can be inherited from other Human Beings with whom we have certain specific relations, as willed by the owners, or as prescribed by legal determination in a court of law. “Property” can also be lawfully, justly, and peacefully acquired through purchases or sales, or auctions, etc. . .., according to price or cost agreements between sellers and buyers, sums of which, we broadly or generally refer to, as “the Economy.” There is always “a right way” to acquire or obtain property, without injury or harm to anyone. Hence why established “laws” must allow equal access to all Human Beings in a society to the numerous lawfully prescribed ways in which “property” can be justly, rightly, and peacefully acquired.

For Scriptures command that: “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein; for He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers.” (Psalms 24:1).

“The earth and everything therein is the Lord’s,” because we all die eventually, to leave it all behind. “You can’t take it with you!” “No U-haul behind a hearse!” (Luke 12:15). In short, we can’t “put the Planet in our pockets” and “stake a claim” on it as “ours.” By the grace of God who gives us life and liberty: We’re “only passing through!”

But, at the same time, we’re no longer driven by wickedness that causes us to do evil, for as we are under grace, consciousness of sin through knowledge of good and evil is annulled, in order to bring righteousness through faith.

“For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.” (Romans 6:14).

We act freely regarding both “genetically wired needs,” e.g., we can freely choose when to eat, and “socially necessitated responses” to situations we encounter as we live in society, and on the Earth.

“Society,” is, first and foremost, a “shared spiritual environment.” Animals don’t “make laws.” But Human society is governed by those “rules, laws, regulations, or statutes” that guide or direct which actions we can take towards each other, towards things in society, and/or during specific situational events, in order to fulfill our needs, or satisfy our desires, without harm or injury to no one, e.g., when it is raining or snowing, we have the freedom of choice in deciding which garments we’ll wear that protect us from the rain or the cold snow; or “with goodwill to all and with malice towards none,” we can freely choose to befriend another Human Being or not, without making him or her into “an enemy;” or we can freely decide to deliberately join “an open organization” or “private organization,” in accordance with its lawfully, justly, peacefully and freely determined, “prescribed rules, policies, regulations, or procedures,” to sum of which, we refer, as “Freedom of Association,” e.g., trade unions; local church congregations; political parties, etc. . .

Abraham Lincoln, before he became President of the United States in 1861, gave a speech before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, on January 27, 1838, during which, he said:

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

God gave us Life and Liberty so that we can engage in “the pursuit of Happiness” in lawful and peaceable ways that edify the beneficent “goods and services” we’ve accumulated thus far in Human history for our “general welfare.” We’re one of the most powerful countries in the world, militarily speaking; and thus, no external enemy can invade America to forcefully or violently subdue its population into political bondage or cultural slavery. Therefore, Mr. Lincoln, does “have a point!” WE THE PEOPLE, each and every individual Person living freely in our society is responsible and accountable for every event that takes place therein, thereby impacting other individuals in our society, e.g., crimes of violence, abuse, theft, or murder — barring natural phenomena like tornadoes and hurricanes; unpredictable disasters, like fires and floods; or accidents due to Human error during unforeseen circumstances or unknown conditions, like car accidents or plane crashes during a snow storm, or during some other forms of “non-directed events” that “take a Human toll.”

However, many times, in many situations or “frames of circumstances,” e.g., which offered job or position to accept; which road or route to take for a certain specific destination, etc. . ., our choices are seldom “error-free,” due to our “fallen nature.”

Many factors may input into our freedom of will, during a decision-making process, depending on the parameters or conditions encountered during the deliberate decision-making processes guiding us in making that specific exercise of “free choice.”

In addition, God did not change His relationship to us only, but also to the earthly physical environment in which we live. The very ground upon which the Serpent is to crawl all the days of its life is “accursed” by our Creator! (Genesis 3:17).

However, because God’s love for us is pure, holy, sinless, and righteous, due to our sinfulness He has only changed the conditions within which or under which we can rightfully “commune with Him.” (Hebrews 10:18–25).

God had to have a “plan of salvation” in order to restore our free, righteous, and holy relationships with Him. For then, God could perform “miracles” with our Faith, because His love surpasses or transcends “the strict and just tenor” required of His wrathful holiness. We are to trust In God by faith and are saved by faith and not by works; we are not under the Law but under grace, so that no one can boast because of their works. (Ephesians 2:8–10).

But, only Jesus, is the author and finisher or “perfecter of our faith.” (Hebrews 12:1–2).

“Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations), before Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being things that do not exist yet as though they did already.” (Romans 4:16–17).

Therefore, here is the crux of our predicament or “Human condition:” We are sinful by nature, on the one hand, and on the other, the Earth itself, or our physical-material, or ecological environment itself, is also subject to “Entropy.”

“Entropy,” simply states that things that are purposely organized for fulfilling certain specific functions, whether in Nature or in society, if not consciously attended to, will tend to decay, degrade, disrupt, disperse, or end, e.g., a fruit will decay and “return to seed” if not harvested or eaten “at the right time;” we build cars for transportation and they deteriorate to the point of needing “a junk yard” or “salvage yard;” we are conceived and born, to then mature, age, and eventually die.

Thus, “Entropy,” is a “naturally unfolding phenomenon” that may be present in almost all situations that involve any process, event, activity, function, or performance, within the framework of “the Law of Transformation” that inheres in this Universe.

Things will repeat in periodic cycles during which they’ll process relatively the same variables in order to produce the same outputs, e.g., Seasonal Cycles.

This pattern or template of “reiterative cycling,” is consistent with the Law of Energy Transformation. Thermodynamics requires Entropy because physical processes must have a beginning and an end, while preserving Conservation in their duration or during their “life-span.” But, as we know, even Energy Transformation has its “limits and boundaries,” including the “laws” governing its “scientific operations.”

Consequently, from our own characteristic “way of being” as Humans, which we call “Human Nature,” we suffer from sinfulness; and from the physical processes intrinsic to the existence of the Earth as a “living Planet,” to which we usually refer as “Nature or the natural environment,” inhere the “entropic patterns” of decay or degradation, of which, we also partake, due to our biological physiological body that is engineered by our Creator to be subject to the same “entropic patterns of processing” belonging to the course of the natural environment, e.g., we can get bacterial infections that cause fever; we eat, to digest, and dispose of waste matter; and our lives do end eventually, in “death,” to be honorably buried in the cemetery of our choice.

From “all frames of reference” that we encounter during our temporary existence on the Earth, we are pummeled by certain “Species-specific deficiencies,” such that they can be categorized or classified as: “character flaws,” as “biological impairments,” or as “failed environmental adaptations,” e.g., a person can become or learn to behave as a habitual thief; a murderer; or a liar;; or we can come face-to-face with a “biological impairment” contracted during a certain activity, accidental or deliberate, or in absence of sanitary conditions that sterilize our environment, whereby we might get diseases that may result in death, such as, in contracting AIDS; or we may be involved in an accident, such as during “bad weather,” while driving a vehicle or flying a plane, due to which we might suffer harm, damage, or injuries.

According to our analysis, then, we can conclude that, first, our own “Human nature,” and the “Natural environment” present certain limitations upon, not only the thoughts and ideas we might entertain so as not to get injured in some way or another, — some thoughts or ideas could be dangerous, harmful, lawless, or unjust, if executed, — but also the types of behaviors we might choose to engage in, some of which, could be fatal or deadly, e.g., jumping while inebriated, from a skyscraper, without a parachute or without some other forms of protective gear that would then prevent us from “smashing” against the building or against the ground.

Thus, we might conclude that Human nature is flawed or plagued by “sinfulness.” And the Universe, or the physical-material environment of the Earth, or what we call the “natural environment,” is also marred by “Entropy.”

Biologically, we are “doomed to sin;” and environmentally, our transactions and relationships with the Universe are subject to Entropy.

But because our biology must also transact with the environment in ways that sustain our existence, our bodies of flesh-and-blood, are also subject to “Entropy,” e.g., our lungs breathe as they extract Oxygen from Earth atmosphere that is primarily composed of Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Hydrogen in addition to inert gases, such as Neon, and Helium, hence, “good reasons” to keep the air “as clean as possible.” And that goes for the Water sources and wellsprings, as well as, for the soil comprising our natural environment or Earth ecology.

Given that we were created “from the dust of the ground of the earth,” as stated in the Holy Bible; — or, given that even “Evolutionists” believe that we “emerged” from the same “cosmic soup of chemicals and elements” formed in the “Goldilock Zone” since after the so-called “big bang singularity explosion,” — then, our Human Nature suffers from a combination of both “sinfulness” and “Entropy” — that we have to breathe Oxygen and we must drink clean sweet Water in order to continue to live; that we might contract fatal illnesses and diseases due to bacterial or viral infections that can result in our death; by immorally engaging in corrupt, unnatural, and abnormal sexual activities, such as sodomy and then contracting AIDS, or “Human Papilloma Virus” (HPV), accountable for some forms of deadly cancers.

Thus, “sinfulness” also “meets” or “combines with Entropy” to cause harm, damage, injury, disease, or death to Human Beings.

The very physical environment in which we live, and which we share on the Planet, contains the same cycles of repetitiveness or re-iterative patterns of flawed operations, as our own biological bodies.

Thus, these parameters, conditions, variables, circumstances, and conditions, can configure in a constellation of events or processes that can impact the ways in which we think and act, e.g., an already physiologically impaired person can experience fears and anxieties when he or she hears thunder or see lightning, that are so severe, as to result in “a heart attack;” and other events or phenomena, sum of which, can also affect the society, or “social environment” we share, e.g., a volcanic eruption can create mayhem, havoc, injuries, and extremely chaotic disruptions that can result in fomenting great emotional distress and the death of many Human Beings.

Biology is “sinful;” the Universe and the Earth, our material-physical environment, is “entropic!” And Sinfulness does, at times, “commiserate” with Entropy!

So, “Where do we go from here?” How do we get delivered from our “genetic-biological history” of travails and tribulations? How do we overcome our “spiritual being-ness” or “Human predicament,” to which is attached an innate tendency or moral predisposition” to lead us astray?”

Scriptures reveal that: “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26).

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