Freedoms and Allowances Here on Earth

As human beings we were made by our creator and given many freedoms and allowances here on earth. In chapter one of Kammer's book he calls this an original blessing traceable to the creation stories which he calls our "giftedness." This giftedness is not a privilege but a commission to "stewardship." Stewardship in turn is our relationship with our fellow man or "community." This is the beginning of a time honored and quintessential theme of the Bible's Old Testament. This is the Cycle of Baal. The cycle, in short, is the story of the reoccurring human drama of finding God and losing him, only to return at the lowest point and be redeemed by our ever faithful Creator in fulfillment of His covenant.…