The Birth of the Soul

When we explore things that happened before our recollection of
fact, may our faith be so great as to imply nothing false about the true
nature of our heavenly Father. In our study of scripture, our ultimate
goal is to better understand God, enabling us to worship Him to the
fullest. If we think of Him in an unworthy manner, then we lose the
blessedness we diligently searched for from the beginning. As long as
we think something false about creation, it is important that we do not
mistake our opinion for known fact. So, for our voyage into eternity
we must trust the past and future with a doctrine of faith governed by
divine mercy. The Apostle Peter wrote, “…knowing that no prophecy
of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came
by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved
by the Holy Spirit.”1

We are not certain when our spiritual side was created. Are we
fallen beings that for some reason were placed in human bodies to
give us a chance to reconsider our position with God? Or are we part
of the faithful that God needs to know where we truly stand? Did He
create mankind as a way to test those of us that stayed faithful? I do
not know. Nowhere have I been able to find what and who our
spiritual sides are.

If already existing souls are placed in human bodies, even though
they were born into the punishment of sin because of the mortality of
the first man, Adam, the spirit would have time to prepare itself for
the mortal corruption. This preparation is completed through
purification and by virtue of submitting to the servitude ordained by
God. When our spirit enters this life the knowledge of our previous
life is hidden from us so that we might undergo the hardships of our
present situation. I can just imagine spiritual beings lining up for the
opportunity for a body and to receive the blessings of grace and
salvation through Christ Jesus.

The result of our entrance into the physical world requires that we
live through ignorance and hardships, which is the penalty for our
mortality imposed to make amends for the wretchedness of the spirit.
It is also the spirit’s window into restoring the body’s incorruption.
These are the sins that only come from the sense of the flesh that
come from inside the individual for the soul that enters it. The sins or
difficulties are not attributed to our soul or Creator because God gave
us the power of good works and a will to choose right from wrong. He
gave us the power of judgment to overcome our difficulties through
rightful actions. He gave us the avenue of prayer where we might seek
counsel from God. He guides us outwardly by His law and inwardly
by speaking to the very depths of our heart. For those of us who
overcome the pride of the flesh, God prepares the holy city of the
New Jerusalem for our final destination.

Spiritual beings willfully and graciously accept the toil of human
life in order to conquer sin through faith. Unfortunately, many get lost
in all the confusion. It is a battle of enormous proportions to conquer
Satan by assuming this body of punishment. Whoever is captivated by
the love of this life and neglected his duly sworn responsibility to God
will in no way be justified for their crime of desertion and will receive
their final and just reward of eternal death.

Let us assume for a moment that our spirits and souls existed prior
to our human birth—that instead of being placed here by God at His
own discretion, we volunteered for this duty of our own free will. So,
it is easy to see that the difficulties we go through are of our own
choosing and in no way can we blame God for our failure. Even if
God chooses us to go through the hardships of this life, He has
provided for us a path to escape our fallen existence. Behold, I stand
at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I
will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.2

At this time, we lack the knowledge to understand the truth about
how our soul comes into this world. We must guard against accepting
any false conclusions that will deceive us as to the past relationship
we had with the Father. There are four theories as to how we came
into existence. 1) The soul comes from propagation. 2) The soul is
created new in the case of every individual. 3) The soul exists
elsewhere and is sent into the body of a man by birth. 4) The soul
chooses to be sent into the body by its own free will.

We are, however, all fallen spiritual beings because of our
ancestral relationship with Adam. Christ came to earth to save that
which was lost. I believe our fall came with the fall of Adam. Were
we like the rest of spiritual beings created in the beginning, or were
we created when God said, “He knew us before the foundations of the
earth were laid?” I do not know, but I believe that we knew Him, but
this information is being held from us at this time so we can use our
free will to decide if we are for God or against Him. For now, we see
in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then
I shall know just as I also am known.3

When we were placed on this earth, Lucifer had already fallen
away from God. He was cast down to earth and kicked out of heaven
so we were placed in harm’s way because they had to know that Satan
would be out for us. He literally tried to make us his servants,
whereby we would worship him instead of God. For this reason, there
is knowledge about our past life that is kept from us so that we must
choose what direction we will travel. The only reason we are here on
earth is to decide are we for or are we against God. Nothing else in
our daily lives really matters.

We were all made subject to a deception, not willingly, but by a
hope that we would be delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God. All of creation cries in
hardship and pain under the weight of sin and death. We wait for the
glorious hope of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to liberate us from
the curse that was placed on all of mankind because of sin.
The Author of the Universe, whose doctrines are part of a firm
faith, aids our purpose to understand the divine recollection of holy
men in the past. Most search out Biblical knowledge as children,
never progressing to the meat of the Word, and are at the beginning of
heavenly things. All our research in many ways is dealing with things
that challenge man’s intelligence and reach the ceiling of our ability
to reason. I claim to have no special insight or intelligence that makes
me an authority over any issue, but I have a tremendous desire to
know and understand God. Whatever past or present events that are
explained to us through the word of God concerning creation we are
to believe without a doubt.

It really doesn’t matter if we do not understand our beginning
because it is in the past and our hope is on the future with the mercy
of God on our side as a guide to direct our course. Our difficulty with
sin is the nature of our being at the present time. It is our ultimate goal
to advance in character and virtue toward the knowledge of
understanding that leads us to a blessed life.

We come to the understanding that we will be held accountable
for the things we tried not to know so we must take proper care in
preparing ourselves to know what God wishes to reveal to us. For me
it is a lifelong passion, but for many the interest is minimal. I keep the
bar low so that many others will have comfort in the knowledge of
saving grace. Believing is receiving; call upon the name of the Lord
and you shall be saved. However, many in the clergy set the bar high
for others to enter and require them to meet attainable protocol.
It is the carnal man that objects to the argument concerning death
and bodily sufferings that we are affected by from an early age. Many
ask why Adam was placed on earth completely unprepared for the
consequences of sin. He was, however, given reason, which is all one
needs to comprehend a command. And the LORD God commanded the
man, saying, “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.”4 Obedience is the first duty
of faith whereby we obey God and His word.

The nature of reason is to obey; it is the will that carries the
commandments out. It is not until a man is able to understand
commandments that he begins to sin. We are very capable of sin
before we can ever obtain wisdom. Wisdom does not come from
within us but from without where we are enlightened. Negligence on
our part is found in the evil of sin and it is in this that we can
understand how we were at first seduced by Satan and our free will
resulted in our just punishment that is required by divine law.
Professing to be wise, they became fools and their foolish hearts
were darkened. Pride turns us away from wisdom and for that matter
good common sense. Foolishness has been the fall of many and
results in us turning away from God. It is the blindness of a dark heart
where we turn from the light of wisdom. It is where we replace God
with ourselves, goodness for madness, light for dark. Then the serpent
said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 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.”5

Man was deceived by one of the most powerful entities in the
universe. Through sight, our will was moved to action. We, of course,
cannot control what we see; however, we have the power to either
accept or decline the offering. 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. Then the eyes of both of them
were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together and made themselves coverings.6

When we forget the love of God or we despise our comparison of
ourselves with Him, we take the road of visual satisfaction, seeking to
imitate God in a perverse way where we delight in our own power.
The lips of a fool shall swallow him up; the words of his mouth begin
with foolishness, and the end of his talk is raving madness. A fool also
multiplies words. No man knows what is to be; who can tell him what
will be after him?7 Pride is the root of all sin and the root of pride is
the falling away from God.

The devil presented himself as an imitation to arrogance where
pride and vanity rain over his character of which things lead to death.
Humility and humble lowliness are the character of the Lord in Whom
we are promised eternal life. Through the offer of Christ’s blood as a
ransom for our sin through unspeakable suffering, we can cling to our
Savior with so great a love that all the power of hell cannot divide us.
So, through Christ we have tarried through thousands of days in the
transience of time, but these are numbered so that sin has a
completion whereby the term one day represents the unchanging of
eternity.

1.) 2 Peter 1:20-21
2.) Revelation 3:20
3.) 1 Corinthians 13:12
4.) Genesis 2:16-17
5.) Genesis 3:4-5
6.) Genesis 3:6-7
7.) Ecclesiastes 10:13-14