Lamb of God. The Substitution as a Mechanism of God to Aid Humanity in Its Spiritual Growth. From Abel to Jesus

By Alberto Canen

Analysis of substitution as a mechanism that God has employed throughout the recent history of humanity to redirect it towards the path of loving one's neighbor and away from false spiritualities and misconceptions about divinity. Necessary replacements to substitute what is wrong, bad, and dangerous in supposed spiritualities with what is good, healthy, uplifting, and loving. Substituting and replacing hatred with love, and death with life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alberto Canen
• Release date: Aug 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215371268

Alberto Canen

Alberto Canen (Argentina-1962) Escritor y periodista.Desde 1999 a 2016 fue editor de paginadigital.com.ar portal de mas de 150.000 paginas.En diciembre de 2003 ganó el premio Mate-ar al mejor sitio de arte y cultura, y fue el ganador del Premio Pymes Clarín 2008.Especialista en CEO y posicionamiento web.Ha escrito los libros sobre La Biblia "El observador del Génesis" y "Un único Dios" en 2012. Y "Cordero de Dios" en 2020, con más de 500.000 libros vendidos en todo el mundo, además de otros libros sobre política internacional.

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Alberto Canen

5th ed

LAMB OF GOD

The substitution as a mechanism of god

to aid humanity in its spiritual growth.

From Abel to Jesus.

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Copyright 2020

Canen, Alberto

Translator Alberto Canen

Lamb of God/ Alberto Canen; 1a ed. - Boulogne: the author, 2020.

E-Book. ISBN 9780463315514

1. Religion. 2. Spirituality. I. Castro, Pablo Rodolfo, illus. II. Title.

Dewey Decimal Classification: 291.4

Cataloging Date: 02/02/2020

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Table of contents

Introduction

1. The Motive

2. False Spiritualities

3. Gods

4. The Bible

5. The Decalogue

6. The Path

7. The First Substitution

8. Abram

9. Egyptians

10. Spilled Blood

11. Unleavened Bread

12. Laws

13. Moral

14. The Lamb of God

15. The Final Battle

16. The Law

17. Epilogue

18. Notes

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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

In this brief work, I have attempted to analyze the substitution as a mechanism that God has employed throughout the relatively recent history of humanity in order to redirect it towards the path of love for one's neighbor, steering it away from false spiritualities and misconceptions about divinity. These necessary replacements aim to substitute what is erroneous, harmful, and perilous - stemming from supposed spiritualities - with what is good, wholesome, uplifting, and loving. Through the act of substitution, hatred is replaced by love, and death is replaced by life.

Chapter 2

THE MOTIVE

Humanity, since ancient times, since the most distant antiquity, has felt the need for transcendence. It is a yearning of the soul, a necessity to reconnect with the spiritual realm. That gaze upon the night sky, gathered around a campfire, pondering: Where do I come from? Where am I going? What lies beyond death? Who created all that exists? These questions reside in the human heart and are nothing more and nothing less than the yearning of the soul that knows, that understands, that longs for God, longing to express that image and likeness that God bestowed upon us at the dawn of humankind's journey on Earth.

Let us recall the text from the book of Genesis in the Bible, the account of the seven days:

" God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.' God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)

As we observe in the text, God created humankind in His image and likeness. It says He created humankind, not humans, making it clear that humankind was just one among the many animals He had created a little earlier, alongside numerous other species. Let us examine what the preceding narrative states:

"God said, 'Let the waters be alive with a swarm of living creatures, and let birds wing their way above the earth across the vault of heaven.' And so it was. God created great sea-monsters and all the creatures that glide and teem in the waters in their own species, and winged birds in their own species. God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas; and let the birds multiply on land.' Evening came and morning came: the fifth day.

God said, 'Let the earth produce every kind of living creature in its own species: cattle, creeping things and wild animals of all kinds.' And so it was. God made wild animals in their own species, and cattle in theirs, and every creature that crawls along the earth in its own species. God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1.20-25)

Thus, as God, accompanied by the angels who traversed Creation, encountered this species, humankind - created alongside the others - and upon seeing it, decided to grant it something extra that the others did not possess: the image and likeness of God, the divine essence, transcendence, and spirituality. It was in that moment - when God chose to share a portion of divinity, something that transcends earthly life, with the budding humanity - that some of the angels felt betrayed, envious, and diminished by the fact that they had to share something that was exclusively theirs with these animals, these humans whom they considered unworthy of such a gift, particularly Satan [1], the leader of this rebellion.

Let us also recall the prophet Zechariah, who recounts a reference to the angels traversing Creation. He said: I had a vision during the night. There was a man riding on a red horse; he was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen; and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. Then I said, 'What are these, my lord?' The angel who talked with me said to me, 'I will show you what they are.' So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, 'These are they whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.' Then they spoke to the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, 'We have patrolled the earth, and lo, the whole earth remains at peace.'

Let us also remember Job 1:

One day when the sons of God came to attend on Yahweh, among them came Satan. So Yahweh said to Satan, 'Where have you been?' 'Prowling about on earth,' he answered, 'roaming around there.' (Job 1:6-7)

I am captivated by the phrase 'roaming around there, a clearly defiant and arrogant attitude.

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These angels, as we were saying, like all the others, were created good and destined for holiness, but in their free will, they became corrupted. This predestination is general in nature, as individually we all have free will.

1 - The name Satan or Satán derives from the Latin Satāna, which in turn comes from the Aramaic הַשָּׂטָן (ha-shatán), meaning adversary, enemy, accuser. In the tradition of the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, Satan is considered synonymous with Lucifer. The term Lucifer, a Latin word, means Bearer of Light, Morning Star, or Daystar. Originally, this term was derived from the Hebrew word heylel (morning star) used symbolically in Isaiah chapter 14 to refer to the kings of Babylon. Subsequently, Christian theology took this passage as a veiled description of the devil's fall in an ancient celestial rebellion.

From there, these fallen angels, Satan and his hosts, rebel against God's plans for humanity and decide to sabotage them. This sabotage involves separating and distancing humanity from God, frustrating human attempts to achieve communion with God by causing them to stumble, and then accusing them with the intention of making God repent and take away what He had given them, something that belonged only to heavenly beings, angelic beings.

It is important to remember at this point that the rebels are few, and the majority of the angels remain loyal to God. The wicked are always few, a minority, but even though they are few, they can cause much harm.

This constant stumbling, this constant pushing of humanity towards error by the enemy and the hosts who joined this rebellion, sought to blur the paths that humanity was trying to forge towards God. They distorted them, corrupted them.

When God created humanity in His image and likeness, He predestined them to be holy as He is holy. How else would He do it? God is love; He delights in what is good, right, and light because He is light. But in His infinite love, He also limited Himself by granting freedom, free will to Creation, and with it the possibility to decide.

This freedom is a freedom that heaven, the angels, the celestial beings also enjoy, and it is what allowed this group to rebel and, in a sense, attack humanity.

Wisdom 2:23-24 says,

For God created human beings to be immortal, he made them as an image of his own nature; Death came into the world only through the Devil's envy, as those who belong to him find to their cost.

This leads us to ask, when were the angels created? The truth is, we do not know. The Bible does not clarify it, but the book of Job gives us an idea that they were created at the beginning of creation:

[God speaks to Job] " Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations? Tell me, since you are so well-informed! Who decided its dimensions, do you know? Or who stretched the measuring line across it? What supports