Don Herston grew up attending a small Primitive Baptist church. The church taught a compassionate version of predestination where good people are going to Heaven. Good people are good because God made them that way. He struggled with the question of people who never heard of Christ, an issue his church avoided.

At sixteen he realized that since Jesus is perfect and overcame the Law, Jesus could simply discard His flesh. This would justify discarding the flesh of all good people. Not being a Biblical scholar meant Don did not immediately dismiss this idea as Gnostic. He was able to discover a great deal of Biblical text that supports this idea. Gnostic beliefs are often blasphemous, but flesh against spirit is greatly supported by the Bible. We simply have to realize that the flesh was good when God created it, but it was corrupted by the devil. Satan is not able to corrupt our spirit.

If would be twenty-four years later, Don decided to write a book about his inspiration. The book was tedious as it took that one little idea, added a great deal of Bible passages, to fill a hundred or so pages.

Don’s Learning Experience

When writing the book, and in the years that followed, he did get some things wrong. Not being a Biblical scholar was essential in Don’s ability to look at the Bible less influenced by previous interpretations. This meant the process was a learning experience, but it led to some amazing discoveries. If Christ redeems us by discarding His flesh, there must be some other reason for Him to die on the cross. This allowed Don to see the numerous clues scattered throughout the Bible that Satan exposed his hatred of God to Christ when Jesus was dying on the cross.

Don would later realize that this explains the Trinity. There can be God outside of time and God inside time, but why is there a third God? There is a second consciousness of God moving in time because the Son of God is at a level of reality that transcends Heaven. This explains why the devil did not know and still does not know that Jesus is Lord. This explains why everything had to be kept secret until the end.

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