Note to self regarding everything...

I have to remember that the theology was always, as I stated at the beginning, a 'going back' and covering something I didn't have. So that means you don't stay there. I have it now. I have what I didn't have. Understanding of orthodox, on-the-mark, biblical doctrine (and the understanding of the Bible itself it gives).

So looking at it from the perspective of the 'going back' to learn something, that means there is a point 'forward' that I abandoned to 'go back', and I now have to regain that forward point and move on 'forward' from there.

I always had the Bible, so there is no abandoning anything. I always had the Spirit, too (starting from around the time I first connected with the Work, not to mention my entire life in the harder to define way).

Interestingly I just noticed in Berkhof's big Systematic Theology he actually has a section on the doctrine of 'pre-adamites.' I'd thought I'd only come across that subject in Murray first, then Mouravieff, then later in the 17th century Calvinist theologian Turretin. But of course Berkhof covers it too (he covered everything). I just hadn't search for it enough I suppose. He disagrees with the idea of their being a pre-adamite human population, but interestingly he doesn't say how it effects orthodox doctrine, but just says it does. I'm sure it nukes biblical doctrine in some way or ways, but I can also see how it can possibly be harmonized. One explanation I never thought was a good one was who were the people Cain went to live with in the land of Nod? It's a hard one for apologists to handle. They have to say it was Adam's and Cain's offspring (etc., etc.) and so on. But I digress... I't still a live doctrine for me for now. Adam was king of all humanity, so I don't see the fall and original sin being effected. Berkhof notes by the way that the doctrine inevitably leads to the conclusion that Adam's race - the Adamic, white race - is unique. Well, the world treats it as unique, doesn't it? And remember there is also a 6th day white race, but it's the 8th day Adamic white race that is unique. Not unique regarding salvation I don't think, but unique in other ways. To use Mouravieffian language, the Adamic race has a different enneagram. Literally a different essence or soul. Yet I think regeneration by the Holy Spirit inplants that: the new heart, in anyone now. To Gentiles, so to speak, after Jesus' work on the cross. I digress...

So it is right that I am 'above' the theology (so long as I understand it, which I do). And I am back where I was, not without the Bible and faith because I already and always had that, but back at the edge of development with Work as guide and only my effort - Spirit-enabled - to get me any further...

I'm not writing this post as 'teacher', and that annoys me as it might anyone reading this. I though will say, don't underestimate me. I can still be on-the-mark with the Work, and that is rare. I can still tap insights and draw on real understanding and articulate the teaching in a way I still don't see anywhere else.

I zero in on what is practical and real, and I don't have worldly things continually pulling at me... And I can be challenged. And I'm accessable. Ocean nymphs deliver the mysteries to man...if you happen to be where they are...