Ep. #53 ~ The Never Ending Story: The Fall W/ Rabbi Mark Glickman

It doesn’t take very long for any rational human being to look at our world & realize something is really really wrong. “Human beings [themselves alone], are by nature ravenous creatures; a famished craving haunts every one of us. We were created for utter happiness, joy, and life. But ever since we lost Eden, we have never known a day of total fullness; we are never filled in any lasting way. People are like cut flowers—we appear to be well, but we are severed from the vine. We are desperate, lustful creatures. We look to a marriage (or the hope of marriage), a child, our work, food, sex, alcohol, adventure, the next dinner out, the new car—anything to touch the ache inside us. We are ravenous beings.” Or at least, that is how the author John Eldridge has described us. But this is not just a human issue or struggle with sin in & of itself. This is a universal condition that has affected everything in & outside of creation. Perhaps not a common reflection but, I find myself contemplating the entrance of Lucifer into creation in the form…