The most significant consequence of Adam’s and Eve’s sin was the immediate loss of intimacy with Yahweh. To restore what was lost, Yahweh became our Redeemer and Savior. Although Adam and Eve created a wide separation between Yahweh and the human race, man is incapable of bridging the gap. Yahweh had to do that Himself.

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in James 4:

James 4

  1. What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
  2. You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
  3. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
  4. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  5. Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
  6. But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.”
  7. Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
  8. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  9. Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
  10. Humble yourselves in the presence of Yahweh, and He will exalt you.
  11. Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
  12. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
  13. Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
  14. Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
  15. Instead, you ought to say, “If Yahweh wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
  16. But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
  17. Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

Currently, I am putting up bite sized pieces of His Name is Yahweh in SnyderTalk Commentary.  If you haven’t read it, it will be a treat for you.  If you have read it, you will probably enjoy reading it again.  Don’t hesitate to share it with your friends.  You can download the entire manuscript for free at His Name is Yahweh, or you can buy it in Kindle format from Amazon for just $5.

I have left out several footnotes.  Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript.  It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh’s Covenants and Promises

Yahweh tied His covenants and promises to His Name, and He will never do anything that contradicts His Word because it would defile His Name.  The New Covenant is Yahweh’s most important promise.  It points to the Messiah and the completion of Yahweh’s plan for His creation.  It also demonstrates His deep and abiding love for us.

Yahweh Promises to Deal with Adam’s Sin

Yahweh’s first promise is found in Genesis 3: 14-15:

“Because you (the serpent) have done this, cursed are you more than all the cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life; and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise Him on the heel.”

This promise is a foretelling of the battle Yahweh will wage with Satan to deal with the consequences of our sin.  The battle between Yahweh and Satan over the redemption and salvation of His people is illustrated in every book in the Bible.  Although Yahweh promised to redeem and save His people, men and women are destined to suffer the physical consequences of sin.  Yahweh told Eve,

“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall bring forth children; yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” (Genesis 3: 16)

And to Adam God said,

“Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.  Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3: 17-19)

Sin upset the natural order Yahweh established in the beginning for men and women.  He had intended for men and women to be associates and equals.  But since Adam and Eve sinned, women have possessed a vain longing to rule their husbands, and men have struggled against a hostile environment to provide food for their families.  Additionally, since that time both men and women have experienced sickness and physical death—something Yahweh mercifully permitted so we would not have to live eternally in a fallen state.

The most significant consequence of Adam’s and Eve’s sin was the immediate loss of intimacy with Yahweh.  To restore what was lost, Yahweh became our Redeemer and Savior.  Although Adam and Eve created a wide separation between Yahweh and the human race, man is incapable of bridging the gap.  Yahweh had to do that Himself.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: For his stunning idiocy and his persistent lies about the Holocaust and now 9/11, I am awarding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the Dunce Award.  He has proven over time that he is a deserving recipient.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Commonsense: The Massachusetts health plan is the Obama prototype plan that no one and I mean no one—Republican or Democrat—wants to talk about.  Well, I’ll talk about it in SnyderTalk.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a nickname that it’s earned over the years: Taxachusetts.  If that’s what you want the US to become, then go ahead and write your representative and Senators and tell them that you support the healthcare plan that’s being considered right now.  If you care about your health and your wallet, tell them you don’t support it.

We do need healthcare reform, but we need real reform—not a plan that has been designed to make us slaves to the US government.  This nation did not become great because of the government.  Our accomplishments as a nation were achieved by hardworking men and women who made sacrifices so they and their children could live better lives.  The US government has been the beneficiary of our efforts.  Unfortunately, that fact is lost on many of our elected officials.  We’ve allowed them to put us in a precarious position from which we will have to fight to extricate ourselves.  Take your duty seriously.  November 2010 is right around the corner.

I’ll repeat something I have said many times.  This is not a partisan political appeal.  Republicans and Democrats alike are responsible for the mess we’re in.  That includes George Bush, the son, and the Republican Congress whose spending habits he made no effort to control for 6 of his 8 years as president.  Candidly, I would not mind seeing every single person in both legislative bodies replaced.  I know that won’t happen, and there are some good elected officials, but people have a tendency to think everybody except their Congressman or Senator is a bum.  Let me be as clear as I can be.  Some of you have been supporting the wrong people for years.  It’s time for real change, and hope for a better tomorrow.  We won’t have either with the current crop of elected officials.  It’s time for us to take our nation back.

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Climate Change Update:

I want to thank my friends at Science & Environmental Policy Project for providing me with weekly updates on climate change data.  If you want to receive their weekly updates, click on the hyperlink in the previous sentence and follow the instructions.

There is a Page in the column on the right of each SnyderTalk titled “Climate Change”.  Click on it and you will see that there is concrete evidence proving that man-made CO2 emissions did not cause global warming, that earth’s climate hasn’t warmed one iota since 1998, and that it is probable that earth’s climate is actually cooling.

Why is this information important?  It’s because forces are at work in our world to impose a hefty tax on carbon emissions that will take money out of YOUR pocket and funnel it to pet projects of political power brokers and their friends.  I’m not guessing.  These things are happening right now, and you need to know it.

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