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Let’s address the term ‘‘judgement’. I am obligated as a Jesus follower to exegete the New Testament text in order to dispel undue judgements by which the error born in misunderstanding the coherency of the New Testament text brings great confusion.
The competitive archer has the intent to hit the bull’s eye (Boulesthai] and must do so by marrying himself/ herself to the ballistics which make the shot ‘true’. Ballistics are based on power, velocity, windage, trajectory, projectile weight, etc. “Ballistics” comes from the word, “Boule”.
Under this first premise I find it beautiful that the qualities within this universe such as: love, charity, humility, respect, lifting others up over yourself, kindness, etc. have existed before the universe was created or ‘came to be (for the secularist for now)’.
I use the term, “Church”, as interchangeable with “Christendom”. That is, the New Testament Greek: “he-Ekklektos”, or “she Bride-called-out”.
One of the earliest sentient cultures of great intelligence was (and STILL IS!) the Kartuli culture. This Kartuli or Kartvelian culture gave the Sumerians a relationship between nature and the heavens. Kartvelian culture made the Sumerian Language, culture and practices *sacrosanct*. Sumerians, seemingly, were primarily nothing more than an agrarian culture.
Happy*: Proto Indo European: “Kob” = ‘met to the desire of one’s wants to make *happy*’; ‘to suit, fit, succeed’; Old Norse: ‘chance, good luck (allotment)’/ Middle English: ‘chance, fortune’
Genesis 11:1: “The whole earth had (yahiy: had; become; be; becoming) one ‘language’—and there were very few WORDS (Dabhar)1 in those days”.
In Genesis 8:2 we begin the process of the waters abating. A full chapter is given up to the existence in the ark until the first contact made to soil in Genesis 9.
Is *Eden* a physical location, state of mind, Heaven, …all the above?
