The Sculptor/Part 2 (The Fall of God's Creation)

When I first did the previous post, I knew I was sharing something special, yet I didn't fully realize how absolutely rich it was until I read it again later. Since this post is sort of a continuation of the one below it that I posted a couple of days ago, if you haven't already, you might want to read the previous post first before this one. It describes a mime presentation that my husband and I saw on Sunday night that I am still feeling inspired by and still writing about. If you take the time to read the earlier post first, this post may make more sense to you.

I have already stated in the previous post how this mime presentation illustrated both positive and negative change and how God's change is good, but Satan's change is destructive. What I didn't see at first is how the basic Gospel message could be derived out of it as well.

When the Sculptor, God, created the heavens and the earth, on the sixth day, after He created all the many animals, as a glorious grand finale, He also created man in His own image. From the dust of the earth, He created him and he was called Adam. And then He created Eve out of Adam's rib. At this point, God's creation was perfect and He called it very good.

The next thing that happened is that the enemy, Satan, used the serpent to tempt Eve, so that she would eat of the tree that God had instructed her and Adam not to eat and she gave in to the temptation, was disobedient to God and persuaded Adam to do the same. This caused the destruction of God's creation in that sin entered into the world, just as in the mime presentation, the villains destroyed the sculpture that the sculptor had created.

Throughout the rest of the Bible, God worked towards rebuilding His creation and His relationship with it. He delivered the Israelites out of Egypt and gave the ten commandments to them through Moses. But that was not enough because man, in the weakness of his own flesh, could not keep the law.

Throughout the history of God's people, as recorded in the Bible, God disciplined them several times, just as they ended up captives in Egypt and than later due to their disobedience, God allowed them to be taken over by the Babylonians. Even in the time that Christ came to earth, born of a Virgin, the Israelites were under the oppression of the Roman Empire at the time.

This is just like how the Sculptor in the mime presentation had to use the hammer and chisel on His creation instead of the original gentleness of His hands.

Aside from the look of great distress on the sculptor's face, this particular mime allegory did not include the actual death on the cross that Jesus had to endure in order to pay the penalty for our sins. In relation to the fallen nature of man kind, since God has given us a free will, the lumps of clay within our hearts need to be submitted to God before He can do any work toward restoring us back to what we were originally created to be and yet that is the whole reason why Christ died on the cross, to pay the penalty for our sins, so that we might be restored back to right relationship with God and also to all that God has created us to be.