John Sargent

@ReformedArgghh @AttorneyF_ Not at all just calling out his antithetical behavior You won't read about Hod spending time with individuals in the OT Doesn't seem to care about them except when judging

@JSargentRR @AttorneyF_ You pout, as a child, that your Father hasn't met with you on your terms.

Genesis 3:15 is a masterclass in divine architecture. Before Adam and Eve can even offer an apology, while they are still standing over the ruins of their own failure, God declares war on their behalf. He looks at the serpent and pronounces the judgment: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” When you zoom in on this text, three realities emerge. First, God immediately shifts the battlefield. He does not erase humanity’s responsibility; He assumes responsibility for humanity’s rescue. We know this "offspring" is ultimately Jesus, but God’s language here is deliberately, brilliantly vague. He does not say I will descend from heaven to destroy you. He says her offspring will do it. By keeping His own identity hidden in the lineage of the woman, God amplifies humanity’s role in the triumph. He refuses to keep redemption distant or purely cosmic. Instead, He binds Himself to the very flesh of the species that failed Him, declaring, in essence, I will enter the arena through her womb to defeat you. He does not win the war for us from a safe distance; He wins it as one of us, turning the destruction of the serpent into a collective victory shared by the sons of men. Secondly, God deliberately waives the sovereign privilege of a spotless victory. As the supreme author of prophecy, God had the ultimate license to dictate an untouchable, effortless triumph. Instead, He refuses to pull rank. In the original Hebrew, the exact same verb, ‘shuph’, is used for both blows. Poetically, it reads: “He will shuph your head, and you will shuph his heel.” This is a staggering linguistic equalizer. God voluntarily steps into the dirt, binding Himself to the very same physical verb as His enemy. He allows the serpent to do its worst while He delivers His best. The scandal of the prophecy is not just that God wins, but that He sovereignly chooses to be wounded in the process when He had every right to remain untouched. Thirdly, there is a simple biological detail that changes how you look at this entire sequence. If you or I were writing this story, we would naturally start with the lesser blow and build up to the climax: You will strike his heel, and then he will crush your head. But God says it backward. He puts the head-crush first. Why? Because of how a snake actually dies. When you crush a serpent's head, it does not just go limp. Its nervous system keeps thrashing in a violent, blind spasm. Even a completely severed snake head can still snap its jaws and inject venom purely through muscle reflex. If we read this in light of the whole biblical story, this physical reality illuminates the true nature of spiritual warfare. The strike on the heel is not a parallel attack in an ongoing war; it is the blind, involuntary spasm of a defeated enemy. The devil is not a rival general. He is a crushed serpent fighting exclusively with his ruins. The battle is real, but the victory was announced before the strike even began.

@Biblicalman The question im very keen to understand is why does a Holy God who is set apart Planning Executing And Assessing Such a plot with Satan Thats the troubling aspect

People read Job hoping it will explain why good people suffer. But Job himself never gets the explanation. The reader knows more than the man living through it. That matters. The book asks a harder question: Will we trust God's wisdom when He has not explained Himself to us?

@Truth_matters20 This display is however nonsense, I agree

1. There are no more Apostles 2. All of Jesus' Apostles were male God hates deception and all of this performative nonsense. This is not biblical Christianity.

@AttorneyF_ If there is a "place to build" to strengthen people, build them up, "cause them to stand" Thats where I want to be

@AttorneyF_ Theyve given their lives, money, time and humble example all these years.... And it seems my dad's prayer "strengthen us" in every single prayer never got answered for him

@AttorneyF_ I come from a deeply committed home. My mom and dad strong in faith but incredibly humble people One of my favorite songs was "how form a foundation" When my dad recently told me he was sorry he grew old and tired so young those words turned sour "Strengthen thee help thee..."

@AttorneyF_ Im open and while im getting all my gripes out there im willing listen You moved me slightly on the man eating to take on his own autonomy I still think its an unnecessary option to give but that did provide another aspect to consider

If you are really truthfully looking for someone to guide you towards understanding you can DM me and we can schedule a call where we discuss scripture and your reservations. However if you have your fixed conclusions then let’s not waste each others time as I’ve already told you that I don’t want to get involved in something that is deeper and bigger than me.

@AttorneyF_ You should ask AI sometime if there is any evidence God has relationships with people not just leaders Was sad to find it confirmed my reading and feeling

@AttorneyF_ Actually its for a person just like you. I grew up in the church and know it quite well. We tslk about relationship, one I dont feel and I started to read to see if there is any evidence of relationships between God and the common man. We know he gives time to his leader

@AttorneyF_ Trust is the issue where there are so many machinations and backroom deals that use deceptions and people as pawns Id love an answer so I can saddle back up into faith

@AttorneyF_ The "deeper" issue you see in me is trust It exists because I dont particularly find what happened in the garden of eden honest Or with Job or with the king God want loaded into war and he has conversations with spirits ultimately sending a lying spirit

@AttorneyF_ I came to see if there was real evidence that God "so loved the world" But all I see is competition after competition And many discardable people lined the wake of them Id love to have the explained and find God really does "so love the world" But with the scriptures

@AttorneyF_ The coercion was binding choice for God to heaven and choice for anything else to hell Thats not really choice and it certainly isn"dignity" as you say Its actually the opposite

@JSargentRR Because that tree was the only way they could express the choice of disobedience. Without the option to disobey and without a real opportunity for the dignity of an exit then love is coerced and coerced love is not genuine.

@AttorneyF_ Hey by the way. If you wanted man to genuinely love you and not through duress and coercion You dont set things up so choosing you is bound to heaven and not choosing you is bound to hell If the priorirty was true love that model isnt getting you there there's another priority

You're completely right that they had agency, free will, and curiosity before the Fall, the text shows that clearly when they named the animals. But choosing a name for a giraffe isn't a test of moral allegiance; it’s just a horizontal choice. The Tree wasn't there to give them free will; it was there to give their free will a vertical choice: 'Do I submit to God’s boundaries, or do I choose to become my own god?' Without a boundary, free will exists, but submission cannot be tested. Cain's disobedience happened later, in a world already broken by the Fall. But in the beginning, the Tree was the boundary marker between Creator and Creature. This is exactly why Jesus is called the 'Last Adam' in scripture. He had the exact same free will, agency, and curiosity. But when He encountered the same tempter in the wilderness, He used His agency to submit entirely to God’s word. Adam used his freedom to grasp for equality with God; Jesus used His freedom to submit.

@AttorneyF_ "Im him there is no darkness" x.com/i/status/20784…

@AttorneyF_ You see God is constantly setting up "tests" from the very beginning Let's redo for man what we did for the angels If you "SO Love" as you say, you certainly dont go around testing all the time And you dont imagine and create a hell that outdoes hollywood and epstein island

@AttorneyF_ What is the mind that concieves of such a place and torment? Set aside its existence - what is the mind that imagines it That is Holy and set apart? That designs hell. Who "discovers the foundations" of David men by bodily decomposition aka famine "How beautiful"?

@AttorneyF_ By the way, Theologians assert and it is WIDELY held that being created in the "imago Dei" carried with it Moral awareness This is before they ate of the tree of knowledge That then means a responsibility 👇 ..."Do not put anything before them that will cause them to stumble"