Adultery And Ignorance Of Ultimate Super Ego
THE REASON TO STUDY PSYCHOLOGY
A Christian must be vigilant. He must be well read. As there are false teachers in the church, we must be able to understand the Bible and the error of heretics contradicting it. It is not only those who claim to be Christians that err, but there are also those in intellectual institutions who bring false ideas against the faith. We Christians must be able to stand against any false idea or heresy.
We do not have to spend a lot of time on studies that do not edify, but we should be able to discern easily after having studied the Bible what is good and what is erroneous.
Also, there are some things in studying psychology that may help a Christian develop his own life, which I hope I can show you without a lot of writing. This page has the basic things a Christian should know at the college level, and even at the ultimate level, which the Bible only can lead you. The links will help you learn more. Nevertheless, the Christian's main study is the Bible.
THE SOUL
The soul is the spiritual totality of a human being. It possesses divinity because it is part of the human body, which God formed (yitzer, Ge. 2:7), gave the breath of life and built (yiven, Gn. 2:22). The body is part earthy and part directly divine: The soul of anyone regardless of his phylogenetic lineage could never have come about without God's breath having been breathed into the first human. Thus, all humans have a biological (made from dust) and spiritual (the breath of God) evidence tracing back to the creativity and divinity of God.
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7, KJV)
The soul of man in its beginning was a reflection of God, in His image (Ge. 1:26). Previous to the creation of the highly developed human, the animal, a living creature (which is also a living soul), came into being through the command of God:
“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” (Ge.1:20, KJV)
So after God had created everything, he saw that it was very good.
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Ge. 1:31, KJV)
God, we see implicitly through nature, wanted the man to have a sexually attractive mate. So he made a woman for Adam. The souls of man and woman are similar but have different, physical attributes because woman is a feminine counterpart form of man. Eve was a 2.0 version taken and built from the biological part of man, his rib, and thus given (called) a feminine form (isha) of the male name (ish).
“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” (Ge. 2:21-23, KJV)
THE FLESH AND THE MIND
The term “flesh” refers to the spiritual part of a human soul that has a tendency toward base desires; it does not mean mere skin or meat, but perhaps the appetite or lust of the organic part or whole body. The state of Eve's soul fell after her sin in the garden. Before that, everything God had made was “... very good”. Adam sinned through the woman's temptation and his soul fell to a lower level also. Neither human being was sinless afterward.
Their soul realized a change, a demotion, from its former state. Their consciousness of themselves was different than at first. The female and male's spiritual record had been blemished also; they were no longer innocent. Even though they did not have to report to legal authorities (there were none), they did have to personally account to God for the experience of the change of their mind, the resulting act of their flesh, and the status of their stained soul.
THE MIND
The woman's mind was negatively influenced by a demonic super ego, someone with a detrimental knowledge or state of knowledge different than she formerly had. Satan proposed to her a false idea and result, contradicting what God had told her (verse 3.3). And she passed the negative super ego's influence on her to the man. Since then, after the spiritual deception and fall of both, mankind has had a problem with making moral decisions. Our souls inherited a lack of ability to be free of sin, an attribute that our progenitors once had but lost. They must have been wonderful creatures before the fall into sin.
Ge. 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. (KJV)
WORKS OF THE FLESH
Works of the flesh are forms of disobedience to God's direction. A person that commits these sins misuses his mind. They are conscious acts. (See ancient Greek thought: Three Platonic Theories. The Greeks were spiritually lost due to worshiping false gods and lacked the super ego of the Hebrews, who were taught God's law in another part of the world, but they sought out things about the human mind and soul.) Eve allowed Satan to cause her to listen to his heretical proposition, she did not stop his deception at the mind level but continued on to eat the forbidden fruit. The acknowledgment of nakedness and shame that was recognized afterward by Eve and Adam manifested their error.
Gal. 5: 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
ADULTERY
Adultery is a specific form of fornication. Furthermore, legal and biblical marriage/pure are still two different things many times. So, what is adultery? Let's allow the Scripture to give us the answer: Fundamentally, from a synoptical viewpoint, there are two distinct acts, the one subsequent to the other, which constitute adultery. The first act is a sin of "putting away" because the Scripture says the husband "shall cleave to his wife" (Gn. 2:24); and also, that no one should separate what God has yoked together (Mk. 10:9)--"one flesh" (Gn. 2:24). The second sinful act, "marry another," is subsequent to the first. It also contradicts I Cor. 7:10, 11. Whenever a man puts away a woman, he separates a unified entity which God has joined together. This act in itself does not constitute adultery. However, afterward, if he should marry, he commits adultery against her (Mk. 10:11, Lk. 16:18). Also, if a woman should put away her husband and marry another man, she commits adultery ( Mk. 10:12). Any man who marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery (Lk. 16:18).
THE EFFECT OF ADULTERY
The effect of adultery is sin, something that is in disagreement with the harmonious life of existence with God. As Eve sinned by adhering to the demonic super ego of Satan, an adulteress sins by not taking heed to the highest form of direction, which is the direction of God. Consider the command of God in the era of the first law, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” (Exodus 20:14)
An adulteress sins by allowing her super ego to be overcome by her mind and giving satisfaction to her flesh. Whether she recognizes the era of the first law or not, she still sins by not conforming to God's ultimate direction, the era of the fulfillment of the law, the direction under the New Covenant.
What if the adulteress claims she goes by the super ego of the second law era?
Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
She would still be guilty in our day because that would be ignoring God's ultimate direction (the fulfillment of the law), the third era of God's direction.
Mark 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Adam and Eve did not have any problem with uncleanness. Marriage was designed a unity that should not be broken. Divorce was not intended:
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Thus, the excuse of the adulteress concerning the second law era would not satify the third law era and the requirement of Jesus the Christ.
DIRECTION FROM GOD: THREE ERAS
There are three eras of direction from God written in the Holy Bible. Understanding the Bible today requires knowledge of how Jesus the Christ fulfilled—changed, repealed and reproved the second law of Moses, which redacted the first law. It requires experiencing revelation of new things and “fulfillment” even beyond the first law of Moses. There are basically three different eras to be compared: the first law of Moses, the second, and the fulfillment era of the new covenant (New Testament). The fulfillment era is the active one we have available to us today.
Matthew 5: 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The Old Testament law gave direction to the people of God. People progressed and were given refinements as the law and time advanced.
1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
Although it was not perfect. If it had been, Moses during the second law (Deuteronomy) would not have said,
Deuteronomy 18: 15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. (KJV)
Eventually, his commandments concerning remarriage were perfected through the “prophet”, the Lord Jesus Christ. Fulfillment of the ten commandments and spiritual progress can be seen today through New Testament studies. Contrarily, false replacement instead of fulfillment replacement, such as Islamic (heretical and demonic super ego) promotions, can be studied in my Isaiah 24: 5 sermon.
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