The Word of God

• The Word of Creation - God perceived imperfectly by 'other than God'
• The Word of Redemption - God perceived perfectly though partially within 'other than God'
• The Word of Consummation - God perceived perfectly and fully by 'other than God'

The first dispensation - the Word of creation

As the creation paradigm of the early Christian Gnostics shows quite clearly, the 'Fall of Adam' was not the original cause of evil in the Universe.  Otherness was not fully open to receive the Word at Creation. (Fallen Sophia)

Consequently God was imperfectly perceived until the coming of the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ and the second Dispensation of God.

John 1:18  Nothing (Greek  oudeis) has perceived (Greek horeo) God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

John 5:37  And He sending Me, the Father Himself, has borne witness of Me. Neither has his voice been heard at any time, nor his form perceived (Greek horeo).

The Gnostics correctly referred to the Creator as the demiurge.  Without an understanding of the nature of God as only good and only loving, it is impossible to enter his realm of infinite goodness and love, the Kingdom of God.

It is a tragic mistake that has cost many the experience of the Kingdom, when they assumed they could know God from the witness of God in the Old Testament, or they could know God from the witness of Creation, and such exquisitely designed but cruel creatures as the parasitic wasp.