4. What is the authority structure?
God Delegated All Earthly Authority to Humanity
Who is able to stop evil from hitting the earth?
Certainly, God created and owns the earth. That makes Him the Boss on the earth; so the earthly authority structure is whatever God says it is.
Since we have assumed that God is in control on the earth, we have also assumed that God could stop any evil from hitting the earth.
Yet, if God could intervene to stop even one evil from hitting the earth, people wonder, “Why just one?
Why does God not stop all evil from hitting the earth? or at least the evil that hits ‘my’ life?”
If God could stop any evil, the Problem of Evil is not solved for us…the answer would still be hidden in His wise,
infinite purposes to allow this evil to hit the earth, but not that evil. So we ask: “Did God establish
a different authority structure on the earth, or did He maintain direct control over all of His created earth?”
“Is the answer to the existence of evil hidden from us, since God’s wise ways are hidden, or did He reveal the answer?”
Most of His people believe that God is in control over all the earth and over all life on it…
but that is a shame since God told us that He delegated authority. In Genesis 1:26-28,
God spoke and planned and then implemented the delegated authority structure we experience on the earth.
This shows two serious problems:
- We do not believe the words of the Creator, and
- we live in an upside-down reality, one that God did not create … one that we imagined.
Why is the Creator not believed? God never leads us astray. Why do we believe instead that God is in control on the earth?
How can we believe scientists, who tell us that reproduction occurs across the kind boundaries?
… there is no evidence for any of that. Even the similar dog and cat cannot reproduce with any viable offspring.
In Genesis 1:26-28, God spoke His delegation plan after creating the earth and all life … except humanity.
God reveals in verses 26 and 27, why He planned and created humanity in His image.
In Genesis 1:28, God actually delegated to humanity direct authority over all the earth.
By His act of delegation, God is not in charge on the earth; God has no direct authority over any of the earth.
In verse 26, God planned humanity for earthly authority.
In verse 27, God created the human, male and female, to be able to fulfill His plan for authority … and more.
In verse 28, God blessed the human He had just created, and commanded them to subdue the earth, and to subjugate all previously created life.
After God delegated authority, humans have chosen badly and sinned.
In doing so, we have made a mess of the earth…and God let that happen.
We, people/humanity, are entirely responsible for the poor condition of the earth;
God did not stop humanity from making a mess of the earth that He created.
God enforced His Own created reality, and required the evil effect(s) of every bad human choice to hit the earth.
We see this as we read and believe the Bible literally, and we see it as we live on the earth.
We know that God delegated…the Almighty, Sovereign Creator did not maintain any direct earthly control.
The Sovereign God delegated this one time, and never delegated again.
Since God is the Boss, He could have remained in charge of the earth of His creation or He could have delegated again,
for any reason He wanted. Yet, when horrible choices continued to be made by the humans He put in charge,
instead of re-delegating, God confirmed that His delegation to humanity remained in effect.
Three large confirmations are:
in Psalm 8 after He gave the law to Israel and before the coming of Jesus;
in Hebrews 2:5-9 after the coming, cross, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, and
in I Corinthians 15:24-28 at the end of time.
Delegation is a subject dealt with extensively in Literal Lenses Book 2: Part 2.