Something transcendent is woven into every single one of our ordinary day to day lives. Every breath, every fiber and every cell is laced with it.
The condemnation card is not in Gods hand
God does not condemn us. So who does? Religion, the world, the devil? If we believe in the liberty of the gospel this so called condemnation will not sting us or even singe us. We will walk through its flames with out being burned. Those who do not believe still hold onto old belief systems that divide everything according to the tree of knowledge of good and evil and not according to the tree of life which is the tree of inclusion and reconciliation. Does unbelief affect our inclusion? Hell no! But it can affect our enjoyment of that reality drastically.
The silver screen
All of history has taken place ‘in’ God. From the most atrocious acts to the most benevolent deeds. The whole story plays out on his silver screen; in his theatre. That’s how God upholds the past, present, and future. When we listen to his/her narrative is when we get the full scoop on things and see all happening’s, all the whys and how’s. This isn’t heard by a book but by our hearts and our open ears
The Christian Christ and His Awakening
What would Christ say to an unbeliever on The Day of Judgement? According to Christianity He will say something like, “You did not believe in my redemption therefore you shall burn eternally!” As an unbeliever my reply would be,”well neither was I a believer in Adams failure so we are even…I have not died nor raised just been alive this whole time. I believe in an everlasting union between all existence and the divine.”
The Christ of Christianity would probably then at that very moment wake up and be converted, take off his crown of thorns, and retire to a life of unending love and bliss.
The dungeon of redemption
What we see when we look into the reality of Gods wrath is not a torture chamber set up for a malfunctioned humanity but instead a most scandalous and benevolent redemption. The story of the most miserable hell that humanity could concoct for itself through a mindset plagued by a persuasion of alienation and illusion interrupted by the divines response and narrative, not in agreement per se but in compliance, we could only imagine Gods response….
“If this is the hell and so called truth that you believe in let me take it upon my shoulders, crucify and bury it, then raise you up to a perspective free of alienation and illusion. There I will reveal to you a oneness and Union that has always existed between us that can in reality never be broken or interrupted.”
It is wrath against deaths illusion of alienation and sin consciousness, not a ‘sinful’ humanity. This doesn’t bring us into a state of torment as a millennia of bad doctrine would have us believe but into a state of liberty and bliss.
Invincible summer
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
Sin: a modern day irrelevancy
According to either a literal or allegorical interpretation of the bible the problem of sin and ‘original sin’ is clearly solved.
Summary (the crux):
(Take in mind that both examples of cause and effect took place without anybody else’s hand, faith, or acceptance in the matter)
In the beginning….The so called first Adam plagued the whole human race (the good, the bad, and the ugly) by his sin/fall.
In the end…..The so called second Adam – The Christ unplagued and restored the same whole human race (the good, the bad, and the ugly) by his death and resurrection.
Case in point.
So where is the evidence to make a legitimate case for exclusion, condemnation, fear of judgement and urgency to get people saved if all have already been saved from every so called ‘debt’, and if every charge has been absolved? Where is the ‘sin’ in that and where else is salvation needed?
Sounds to me like a finished deal and a non-issue.
Shed light
Christ represents the infinite tearing into the finite. An awakening to true nature and being. Our lives are an incarnation. God, human, and all existence as one.
We are washed by this wondrous love Union. It crashes down upon us, within us, every single day. Fear is self-inflicted punishment. Love devours that self hatred.
Untie your scapegoats
Untie your scapegoats and let them run free.
In our favor
Through each season of growing, life will never deliver us a beating or punishment. Life is for us and infinitely on our side. Life is ours to experience and enjoy not to be spanked or burned by. That is an illusion that our own fears and anger have created.
Jesse A. Kelley 