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If I Were The Devil

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That's a fractal expansion. The Devil started with a rhetorical question. "Let me ask you if God said that you would surely die the day you ate a piece of this apple." God had said that eating the fruit would cause death, but people are still quibbling over the fact that the first death didn't occur until the next generation (Cain kills Able). Now that happened over the sacrifice on the first alter. People are still arguing that the law caused that, that if there hadn't been a sacrifice requirement, the two wouldn't have been competing over which kind of sacrifice was better, and Able wouldn't have died. This comes up in "Masonic Discussions", some of which are jokes and some of which are rather Albert Speerish, but there is a point to them, because some fellows are indeed bricklayers, which is what a mason does for a living. The commentary on it is in a writing of Paul, he discoursed on how the law was against him, indeed he was about to be crucified by it. But had it not been for the law, Paul would not have known sin, because it was the law that told him what sin was. That's why he isn't guilty of Adam's wrongdoing in the garden, because after Adam's time God decreed another law: the law of sacrifice. In that regard, the snake was half right. Paul came to know good from evil, but not because Eve ate the apple. It was that after the fall, God issued more edicts.

Good video.
 
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