Something new ocurred to me recently – what was the general nature of the faith in different epochs of the Bible?
Adam and Eve’s sin was gaining limited knowledge without perfection and a resulting shame which pushed them away from God.
The Devil’s sin was having great knowledge (and power) without perfection resulting in an insatiable, murderous even damning him for eternity.
In Noah’s day, the people were utterly corrupt and brought down a pre-End Times final judgement on themselves.
At the time of the first destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, the sin was a mighty one — whoring after other gods – even within the temple itself.
At the time of the second destruction of the temple, in Jesus’ time on earth as man, the sin was very different: it was false piety – false religion made false by lack of real faith and knowledge based on ritual alone. — Of course, as far as the second destruction of the temple goes, they had the sin of cruxifying the ultimate prophet (Christ) on their hands.
What about now? — Israel has returned from exile, but no new temple has been built…
And the masses today have returned to secularism and religion without deeper faith…
