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commandments of the Tree of Life which are, only, the two great commandments
(Mat 22:40, Rom 10:4). A Christian causes no offence to God (Mat 13:41, Rom
8:1), despite his or her sin, having fulfilled the law (Psalm 119:165, Mat 18:6,
Mark 9:42, Luke 17:1-2).

Christians have vicariously fulfilled the Law through Christ, thus discharging their
obligation and liability. Christians are under the commandments of the Tree of Life
only, which is a subset of the commandments of the Tree of Knowledge (Rom
7:10-13). Christ's commandment to mankind is that he must keep His
commandments which means, as a default, the whole Law. However his
commandment to Christians, given that they are not under the Law, thus over-
ruling the now non-applicable default, need only keep a sub-set of commandments
that appertain to Christians, namely the Tree of Life's commands which are the two
great commandments (Rom 10:4, Col 2:14). This is possible and non-contradictory
only because Christ is both God, Man and Law-fulfilling Saviour. Both the curse
(Rom 7:12) and the Tree of Life are of God (Rev 22:2-3) but the first is a
secondary will and the latter the primary will (Rev 22:2-3).

Christians in the flesh still need to be tested in their faith by the flesh, despite their
perfect spirits, so that they should retain perfect spirits in an eternity of free choice
(Ezek 28:15, Rom 8:28).

EVOLUTION

Causation

The Word is concerned primarily with the Who and Why as regards the Creation
rather than the How (Gen 1:1, 3, 21, 25-26, 31). Once the Who and Why questions
are answered the How, as an issue, is also answered by reference to the Who and
the Why (Heb 11:3). The How as a process is not the primary focus of the Word
(Gen 1:1, Heb 11:3, 2 Pet 3:5). If the How were as important as the Who and the
Why then the How would be God and to be worshipped, which is not the case
(Rom 1:25). The Who (Gen 1:1) and the Why (which is Love - 1 John 4:8) are
however God and to be worshipped.