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   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!!!)   
      
      
   Thoughtfully yours in Christ Jesus,   
   Dick Franing   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   A SHORT TREATISE ON ORIGINAL SIN   
      
      
   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)   
      
      
   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 one's   
   spiritual instincts can indeed be dangerous, thus the person must stay   
   close to God and be clothed in His righteousness. The old testament   
   and book of Acts states that the young men shall see visions and the   
   old men shall dream dreams. In those days, an old man could be any man   
   past the age of thirty because life expectancy was not very long in   
   those days. I have experienced these visions and dreams in the past.   
   The visions are basically learning experiences while the dreams are   
   basically doing experiences.   
   Adam lost any chance to gain access to the tree of life in the garden   
      
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