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   > forced to live among the other existing humans. From that time on all   
   > human beings have had a spirit bearing soul. How long will this go on?   
   > Probably until heaven is emptied of its condemned subangelic spirits or   
   > until the church on Earth becomes so decadent that so few are getting   
   > saved and transformed thru faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus   
   > Christ, that there is no purpose in continuing the process. This why   
   > spirit bearing souls should not be aborted and the Gospel must be   
   > preached with great fervor everywhere on Earth. This is our one and   
   > only chance to be able to dwell with God forever. We pass this way but   
   > once and each spirit bearing soul gets only one chance. There is no   
   > reincarnation. We must not rob ourselves or future generations of this   
   > sole opportunity for salvation. Once Adam failed, only the new Adam   
   > (Jesus Christ) could salvage the situation for us. He is the Way, the   
   > Truth and the Life. He who has Christ has eternal life and this life is   
   > in God's only begotten Son.   
   > I have presented this theory, not as an absolute truth, but as an   
   > attempt to bridge the difference between fact and faith. Many people   
   > choose to ignore the physical facts around us or to twist them to agree   
   > with their particular interpretation of God's Word. Likewise too many   
   > people ignore the Scriptures in a vain attempt to arrive at the facts.   
   > God does not lie nor do the facts lie, and ultimately they are saying   
   > the same thing. (So why are you folks grabbing me, not the stake. Oh   
   > well, let the flames begin. (Arrrgh!!!)   
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   > Thoughtfully yours in Christ Jesus,   
   > Dick Franing   
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   > A SHORT TREATISE ON ORIGINAL SIN   
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   > The Lord God took man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it   
   > and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may   
   > freely eat of every tree of the garden; 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 die."   
   > But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. For God knows   
   > that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like   
   > God, knowing good and evil."  .....she took of its fruit and ate; and   
   > she also gave some to her husband, and he ate. Then the eyes of both   
   > were opened, and they knew that they were naked. .....   
   > Then the Lord God said, "Behold the man has become like one of us,   
   > knowing 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   
   > God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from   
   > which he was taken. He drove out the man: and at the east of the garden   
   > of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every   
   > way, to guard the way to the tree of life.   
   > (excerpts from the Book of Genesis, Chapters 2 and 3)   
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   > How often has man pondered these words throughout the ensuing   
   > centuries and speculated as to their exact meaning. Some say that it   
   > was an actual fruit such as an apple, some look at it as being an   
   > abstract historical event, some think of it as a crisis of the spirit   
   > that man experienced, while others think that these verses represent a   
   > supernatural experience that Adam and Eve had. Some people think that   
   > it represents some form or type of superior knowledge. Still others   
   > think of it as a mythical story told to explain how sin began. None of   
   > these concepts are comprehensive enough to adequately explain the true   
   > nature of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.   
   > I fear that I now know the meaning of these verses. The tree of this   
   > knowledge lies deep within the soul of man. It is what the Christian   
   > teacher Watchman Nee refers to as "the latent power of the soul". So   
   > what is this latent power that lies hidden deep within the inner   
   > recesses of man's soul? I believe that it is a type of angelic power,   
   > which might be better thought of as Adamic power.   
   > Man is a sub-angelic being who is endowed with a certain degree of   
   > latent angelic capability. Man is not an angel, but man may be   
   > distantly related to the angels in some manner. Under certain   
   > circumstances, the latent angelic capability of a relatively few number   
   > of people can become momentarily activated for short periods of time.   
   > Probably at least 99% of the human race never experiences any of this   
   > activation and thus are totally oblivious to the existence of the   
   > latent angelic capability within themselves.   
   > Activation of this capability primarily occurs during spiritual   
   > dreams while asleep. The person begins a troubled dream while in a deep   
   > sleep, then slips into a state of spiritual dreaming through which the   
   > person can temporarily enter into the angelic mode. While in this   
   > temporary angelic mode, the person is able to direct the course of   
   > future events, depending what the subject of spiritual dream is. If the   
   > person exercises his angelic powers in concert with the direction of   
   > the Holy Spirit of God, the results will be good and beneficial. If the   
   > person exercises his angelic powers in a unilateral manner, then the   
   > results will inevitably be evil. The person acting in a unilateral way   
   > is trying to play God by usurping God's authority in total disregard to   
   > God's will. This is the reason why Adam and Eve fell in the garden. As   
   > a result, they were stripped of their innocence and left naked before   
   > the Lord. It appears that the ability to be activated runs in certain   
   > families. It may also be that this ability may skip generations within   
   > a family, as well as individuals within an active generation. My   
   > father's mother was an angelically active person, but my father never   
   > experienced activation as I have.   
   > In honesty, I must admit that I have exercised this angelic power   
   > both ways in the past, for the good of mankind when exercised in   
   > concert with the Holy Spirit and to the detriment of man when I   
   > exercised it unilaterally. This was largely done in ignorance before I   
   > realized what the exact nature of this power was and how capricious   
   > this Adamic power can be. It has a Jekyll and Hyde quality about it and   
   > must be exercised with extreme caution and then only under the guidance   
   > of the Holy Spirit. Adam was warned about this danger, but he chose to   
   > disregard God's warning. When God told Adam not to eat of that tree, He   
   > was telling him not to exercise his angelic capability because it would   
   > cause him fail the test and all future mankind with him. After man's   
   > fall in the Garden, this capability became latent. Because Adam sinned,   
   > he was not permitted to eat of the tree of life. The way of the tree of   
   > life would have to be personified in the Way, the Truth and the Life in   
   > order for man to have that opportunity again to gain eternal life and   
   > that life is in God's only begotten son, our Lord and Savior Jesus   
   > Christ.   
   > My experience with this phenomenon is that it begins in earnest   
   > during the early teen years, reaches its peak about 30-35 years of age   
   > and then slowly declines until it reaches a point of near cessation   
   > during one's lower fifties. The time of greatest power during a   
   > person's early thirties is also the time of greatest danger because it   
   > when the greatest extremes of good and evil are possible. Momentary   
   > angelity can a potent stealth weapon if used unwisely. Following   
      
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