The story of Jesus

It goes like this:

In the beginning, mankind lived together with God in a place called Eden where there was no time. Nothing moved forward or backward; everything lived in stasis.

God made a covenant with Adam and Eve. The pact was very simple: do not disobey me, and you can live your life as an animal in an idyllic existence. Of course, this pact was broken and so Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden. This act of disobedience is considered the first sin. Adam was punished to work the land for his take (labor), and Eve was punished to bear children (also labor), and both were punished with the weight of bearing consciousness. This was now the fate of all humans.

This begins Act 2 of humanity, a time of sinful existence.

Many generations later, due to how much humans had fallen into sinful behavior, God made another pact with a man named Noah. Noah was to become the ‘new Adam’, and after a flood would wipe out all life on Earth, his descendants would birth the peoples of all nations. He had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. These sons populated the Earth and became the progenitors of the various races. This covenant was also simple: God would, after the cleansing flood, allow for life to continue uninterrupted on Earth.

Many more generations later, God made another pact with a man named Abraham. This pact was the first example of God’s law being given to humans. This law was strange and esoteric, but its reward was great: the right to be called God’s chosen people and to live in the Holy Land. Abraham became the patriarch of a group of people called Israelites, and in those days, God was very near.

This covenant was then renewed with Moses in the form of the Ten Commandments delivered on Mount Sinai. And in this form, as the Israelites were soon to cross back into Canaan after the exodus from Egypt, was set the finality of God’s eternal holy law.

So this begins Act 3, when mankind begins to live under the law.

But something is wrong. Despite having the law personally delivered by God, nobody is able to keep it. As humans are sinful at heart, they are eternally falling away from the law, and thus from God Himself. God is getting ever further from the Israelites, and eventually He is distant and unreachable. He does not answer their call.

At first, it is thought that everyone must keep the law to save humanity from sin. But then the goal posts are moved and it is agreed that if there are even ten good men who can keep it, humanity will be saved. And of course, there are none.

So the Israelites begin to conceive of an idea: there shall be One Good Man, called a Messiah who will come and fulfill the law and save all of mankind. However, no ordinary man will suffice; all earthly men and women are born in sin. So God gives his only begotten son, named Christ, who lives and dies for all humanity.

This ends the period of the law and begins the epoch of faith, which we continue to live in now. And as it is written, the epoch of faith will end when the Messiah returns, the last trumpet sounds, the last judgements are called, and time itself ends - as it was in the beginning.