I'm afraid this blog is going to come down to the simple proposition that was always latent in its original premise. If we are "roused, readied" and "reaped" to an awareness of God, then the awareness of God must destroy all other concepts. The Edenic notion of "becoming like God"--when paired with the realization that we are not like God--means that we are neither human nor divine, and it would be ridiculous to imagine that our understanding of anything would be on a solid foundation.
A perfect example of this would be our understanding of "life." Adam and Eve, as long as "death" did not exist, could not experience life as we do--their prospect of eternal life would not differ materially from a perfectly valid perception we might have of the "after" life. Similarly, when Adam and Eve (and all of us) proceeded to live under the judgment of death described in the narrative, then we are all in a state of "after" death.
We spend our lives seeking to find meaning to life, and we are terrified at the prospect that life has no meaning. Of course, we think we understand what life is--and what death is--and so (since we are mistaken about both life and death) we suffer from a surfeit of fancied meaning to life, not a lack of such meaning. A necessary aspect of being "saved" in life is salvation from the very conceit that we are alive.
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