Cause and Effect

Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God. …

This God is the CAUSE.

Genesis 1:26-28  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion. … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion. …

That is man, who is the EFFECT, who is in the image of and of the same substance as the CAUSE. The two are one.

But this God and this man are spiritual being which cannot be discerned by the human senses —because at this time there were no HUMAN senses. And, furthermore, there was no time either.

Genesis 1:31

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

Genesis 2:2-3

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Now everything was finished, and it was perfect. There was nothing to be added or taken away. All was begotten out of the invisible and was the expression of the CAUSE. And everything had within itself the ability to reproduce itself after its own kind.

But only man had the ability to say I —to be aware of his own being-ness. And we see in Genesis 2 that he became aware of himself as a separate self from God, thus (through the fear that this produced in him) descending into the sense of mortality, or material sense living —what we call humanity. He began to observe himself and all of creation, giving names and values to that which he observed, thus bringing into visibility whatever he became aware of —just as God brought the original creation into spiritual visibility by becoming aware of it. For the EFFECT, begotten of the CAUSE, has the same abilities.

Now the EFFECT (the image of God) has (through fear) become the cause of all the effects which he does not want. Every disease, calamity, hardship, problem and everything that we know as evil —and even most of what we know as good (judged by human standards)— is a direct result of man’s sin (or the belief that he is a separate identity from God, the CAUSE).