As The Father

 I and the Father, We are one 

Johns Account 10: 30, Concordant New Testament 

Adam and Eve, they had it pretty good.  They lived each and every day in the presence of their creator.  Having been created and given life by God, they were indeed one with Him {Genesis 2:7}.  Then came the day where Satan the accuser sought to drive a wedge between the Father and His creation.  So, he suggested to Eve that were she to partake of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that she and Adam would become "Like God."  Never mind the fact that, having been created and given life by the Father, they were ALREADY like God.  Adam and Eve could not have known this, and so Satan sought to use it against them.  What followed was the lie of the deceiver which Adam and Eve chose to partake in {Genesis 3:1-7}.  Popular Christianity has dubbed this as "The fall."  The fall of mankind out of favor with the Lord?  The fall of God's creation into a unrepairable relationship?  Whatever your definition of the fall is, many believers have been lost in the lie of the deceiver for some time.  This is the lie that we and God are separated due to our sin in the garden.  The mainstream church, for its part, continues to teach of the deity of God in heaven and the struggle of His creation here on earth.  Modern worship music speaks to "God above" and "Come, Lord Jesus" as if that separation was indeed real.  Yet the scriptures speak to something totally different.  Jesus speaks to the fact of "I and the Father, We are one" {Johns Account 10:30}.  For this, the Jewish authorities took up stones against Him.  Jesus also speaks to the reality of our own union with He and the Father {Johns Account 14:20}.  We are, as Jesus claims, as the Father. 

The baby son grew up and said A troopers life for me

A jumper like me daddy was is all I want to be

I only hope that I will jump as half as well as he

He ain't gonna jump no more!

Blood On The Risers ~ Vincent Speranza 

Growing up, my dream was to be a sheriff deputy like my dad.  This was the man I saw each and every day.  This was how I knew him.  Why does this matter?  What child has not grown up wanting to be like their parents?  Did Adam and Eve desire to be as God?  If they did, Satan provided them with that false opportunity.  Having been created by the Father, He is indeed a part of us {Genesis 1:27}.  I dare say that there has never been a separation between ourselves and God.  What there has been is the false belief among Gods children that we are indeed separate from Him due to our sin {Paul to the Romans 3:24-24}.  Pastors often point to the verse in Romans in which Paul speaks to the fact that all have sinned.  However, Paul also speaks in the following passage of our deliverance through Christ Jesus.  Yes, we have sinned, but it is through Christ Jesus that the Father no longer remembers or holds us guilty of those sins.  It is Jesus who took that sin upon Himself at the cross {Paul to the Corinthians (2) 5:21}.  So, where is that sin that somehow continues to separate us from being in union with the Father?  Like two warring factions, God and sin have been in conflict from the beginning.  Yet through Christ victory has been declared!  We no longer need worry that the Father will turn from us due to our sin.  As Paul has proclaimed, we should reckon ourselves to be "Dead, indeed, to sin, yet living to God in Christ Jesus, our Lord" {Paul to the Romans 6:11}.  So it is that we live in union with the Father. 

~Scott~