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Their rebellion was rooted in their loss of trust in the veracity of God’s spoken word and in their desire to dethrone the Creator.
Doubt of God’s veracity left mankind with no reliable epistemological foundation. Without divine guidance, man’s knowledge of law, science, and religion became guess work based on assumptions and speculation.
God warned our first parents that in the day they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would die.
That death materialized and manifested beyond the physical and material realm. It touched every aspect of humanity. It extended, among other areas, to the psychological. Human beings now struggled with self-assurance, self-esteem, and the love of self, love of others, and love of God.
The greatest crime in the history of mankind took place in a very public forum. There was unanimous agreement on the part of those who were perceived to represent God’s People.
The Government Agreed.
Church and state were in lockstep to loose the murderer (Luke 23:19) and crucify Jesus. This was not homicide. It was deicide. What followed was a crime that trumped every crime ever committed in human history.
Governor Keating & I think what the Senate did to Secretary Russell Perry twenty-five years ago was a crime. Last year, we began discussing the idea of correcting that wrong. Senator Shane Jett persevered through the walls of resistance from Senate leadership and succeeded in the effort to begin to set the record straight.
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