Questions Within

Do we enter this world separated from God, or carrying His divine image within us?

The Short Answer

We are born bearing the divine image, not as beings inherently unworthy of Father’s Love.

Our eternal identity originates in God. We do not become divine through religious achievement, moral perfection, or spiritual awakening. Awakening reveals the divine Life that has always been within us.

We may inherit human limitations, conditioning, and patterns of fear, but these do not define our deepest nature.

The Traditional Understanding

Many Christian traditions teach that humanity inherited a fallen condition through Adam’s disobedience.

This understanding, commonly associated with original sin, draws heavily from Romans 5:12, where Paul connects the entrance of sin and death into the world with Adam.

Some traditions teach inherited guilt, while others emphasize humanity’s inherited mortality, corruption, or inclination toward sin.

Within these understandings, humanity needs redemption through Christ.

Yet Scripture begins with a declaration that deserves equal attention:

“So God created man in his own image.” — Genesis 1:27 (KJV)

Before the story of the fall, humanity’s origin is described through divine likeness.

And Genesis 1:31 declares creation very good.

This raises a profound question: Did humanity’s choices erase what God created, or did they change humanity’s experience of its own identity?

A Deeper Look

To understand our identity, we must look beyond the outward human experience.

Genesis describes humanity as formed from the dust of the ground, with God breathing the breath of life into the human being (Genesis 2:7).

Esoterically, this reveals the union of the earthly and the divine.

We are not merely physical bodies attempting to reach a distant God. We are living expressions of divine Life experiencing existence through human form.

The Hebrew word ruach, often translated as spirit, wind, or breath, deepens this imagery throughout Scripture. God’s Spirit is not merely an external force but the very source of life.

The story of Eden can also be understood as an awakening into the consciousness of separation.

Adam and Eve become aware of their nakedness, experience shame, and hide from God.

But God has not ceased to be present.

What changes is their perception.

They begin experiencing themselves through fear and judgment rather than innocent communion.

This is the veil of forgetfulness.

We enter human life surrounded by beliefs, fears, expectations, and inherited patterns that teach us who we supposedly are.

Over time, we may identify so completely with these experiences that we forget the divine nature beneath them.

Yet Yeshua came revealing a deeper truth.

In John 10:34, he asks, “Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?”

He is quoting Psalm 82:6, a passage whose original context concerns beings addressed as gods. His use of it challenges his accusers’ assumptions about divine language and identity.

And in John 17:21, Yeshua prays that his followers may be one, just as he and Father are one.

Through the mystical understanding of these teachings, we recognize that union with God is not merely a distant promise. It is the reality into which we are invited to awaken.

We do not awaken to become children of God. We awaken to recognize what it means to be His children.

Living the Discovery

Imagine the difference between raising a child who believes they are fundamentally defective and one who understands that they are deeply loved and inherently valuable.

One approaches life trying to prove worthiness.

The other learns to express the worth already within.

This understanding changes how we treat ourselves, our children, and everyone we encounter.

We still recognize harmful choices and take responsibility for them. But we no longer confuse behavior with identity.

Our purpose is not to escape our humanity.

It is to allow the divine Love within us to become visible through our humanity.

Love’s Echo

Beloved,

Before the world gave you a name, I knew you.

Before anyone taught you what to believe about yourself, My Life was already within you.

You did not enter creation as a mistake to be corrected or a stranger who must earn My acceptance.

You came forth bearing My image.

Do not allow fear, shame, or the judgments of others to tell you who you are.

Look within. Remember the Love from which you came.

You have always been Mine.

Ashé.