The Image of Truth as a Person

This calls for you to think outside your intellect and exercise a mystical awareness. You will need to process in terms of language as indicative, not descriptive. The terms of this post are generally symbolic and parabolic (related to parables).

There has only ever been one covenant God offers to humanity. All the other covenants mentioned in the Bible were but manifestations, derivatives of that one Covenant of Faith (“faith” defined as commitment and trust in God). That One Covenant began with Creation itself. All the rest were implementations of that fundamental living relationship God offered to bring us back to Eden. The core of that living relationship is the will of God, the plan and purpose God had in Creation. It’s His divine moral character.

The Curse of the Fall itself is based on that Covenant of Creation. Adam and Eve could have pulled up the awareness of that implication, but instead listened to the lies of Satan. And when they tested the word of Satan, they discovered it was all a lie; they found themselves ejected from Eden. The terms for living in Eden begin with faith in God.

The only question then is how far you must travel to come back to Eden. There are at least two Law Covenants mentioned in Scripture as low level manifestations of the one Covenant of Faith — Noah and Moses. Moses was closed on the Cross, but the record of its demands and Israel’s failures stand as a testimony to how Law works. If all you can do is grasp the Law as the demands of some Sovereign you really don’t understand, that will get you by, living in His Creation until you can begin to absorb what the Law tells you of your Master. Once you start moving in that direction, you begin to see past the provisions of the Law to the heart of the One of gave the Law. Once you have been seized by the awareness of His heart, you are well on your way back to the Gate of Eden.

Here’s a most difficult part for our minds: There is no single path back to Eden. The path is always a unique and individual thing. There is a certain commonality in all the paths for each of us; that’s what a written Law Covenant indicates. It points us back to the symbolism that the Law of God is God; He’s a Person and His Law is how we get to know Him. And while He is the same Person all of us get to know, He doesn’t treat each of us exactly the same. That’s the way it is with any human father and his children, provided you aren’t trapped in the perverted mythology of “fairness and equality”. The false image of “fair and equal” attempts to steal from God His divine freedom to choose, to be creative in making us all different. We are not interchangeable in every aspect of our existence. So we all can get to know the same God, and will certainly have a lot of common experiences so that we can share them, but there remains a certain element of uniqueness in it for each of us.

The written code of Law Covenant is meant to be somewhat fuzzy around the edges. It’s supposed to be imprecise because the precision comes in your personal encounter with God. Further, the precision is found in each unique context in which you seek to apply His divine will. It’s a living and intensely personal connection that you must strive to maintain against the distractions of the Devil. It is utterly impossible to embed the truth of God in your awareness with mere words, as if there could be some objective truth out there that’s the same for all of us, and consistent across time and space. That simply cannot exist.

Nothing, nothing, nothing can replace the vivid living communion with the Holy Spirit of God. The Law Covenants point to it, but the core Covenant of Faith demands it explicitly. You cannot distill ultimate truth into any body of knowledge separate from God Himself. Ultimate truth is the Person of God.

Always picture “Law” as a Person. In our context today, Law is the Person of Christ.