Once I wrapped my mind around the basic idea of life being "interaction and exchange with that which is external", it forced me to look a little deeper at what God said to Adam regarding the consequence of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, (Gen. 2:17.) Before that act of disobedience, Adam and Eve were certainly alive physically, but they were also interacting and exchanging with God relationally through communication and intimacy as He designed it to be. He said they would "die" the day they disobeyed and ate and obviously, many things at many levels changed as a result of their disobedience. But I believe the KEY consequence was that they no longer were interacting and exchanging, (through intimate communication,) with their Creator as they were designed to do and as they were doing previous to their disobedience. They no longer had LIFE at all the levels they were designed to have it--the most crucial level of LIFE ceased, they really did die.
And so, as is obvious to anyone even fairly observant, from then until today, the majority of mankind has LIFE at the basic physical and emotional level, but no true life at the most crucial level--no intimate interaction and exchange with the one who created them.
And this is where Jesus comes in.
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Great stuff! I hadn't thought it through that way. My immediate thought is how the father of lies has been able to successfully conceal this basic truth from so many people and convince them that this life that we currently have is all there is to live for. Thank you for sharing - !
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