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Recently Dr. C. Baxter Kruger blogged about the Fall of Adam and its impact on humanity. He also went on to discuss the wrath of the Father in the midst of the deception and rebellion of Adam and Eve. The wrath of God in the Fall is not to be seen in the typical Western paradigm wherein wrath means that heads are going to roll. The Father’s wrath in the Fall is to refuse to see us lost in our new-found mythology. In the Fall mankind began to see God through a fallen lens of fear. Remember the first human words spoken after the Fall? Those words tell the whole story of how we came to be inveterate mythologizers. Immediately following the Fall God sought Adam for their daily playtime and walks… “Adam where are you?” Adam was hiding in the bushes because, as he said, “I was afraid.”
It makes no sense for Adam to hide from the God who called him into being and gave him Life. There is a mythology at work in Adam’s mind. He suddenly believes God to be other than He is.
God never changed in the Fall- Adam did. It is here that Davina Winn makes such a profound and brilliant observation:
I think the Fall is like a child that has developed autism. One day you are interacting and relating with your child and the next moment there is something not right. Jenny McCarthy describes it like this about her son Evan who developed autism at two years old after receiving his childhood shots. “Before the vaccination, he was huggy, lovey, snuggly,” she says in the newest issue of Us Weekly. “Then it was like someone came down and stole him.” As a parent, did Jenny say, “Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Too bad…now your on your own kid.” No, she fought and she fought hard to win him back and now at six years old. He shows not signs of autism. Is Jenny McCarthy a more loving parent than God the Father. I don’t think so.
Truly the Father is more passionate about humanity than Jenny is about Evan. In fact the passion Jenny has for Evan is a full and direct sharing of Jesus’ passion for His creation. This sort of love and passion has but One source.
Thank you Father, Son, and Spirit for refusing to see us lost and pass into non-being! Amen!
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