Today I received a lengthy letter on whether we
are saved from Hell to Heaven. The
author mentioned that we created in the image of God but have been unplugged
from that image.
I began to muse about this idea and found
myself thinking about how the creator God made us with an intrinsic need for
God and an intrinsic presence of God in us. Some have argued that all was lost when Adam and Eve
sinned. Others argue that nothing
changed.
I mused again that the creator God was a
“spiritual umbilical chord” providing everything we needed connected to his
creation in a way that served all the needs of that creation. When Adam and Eve chose to use the gift
of Choice given them to do “there own thing” they unplugged themselves form the
creator God.
The peace and love that flowed from God to them
and from them to God was interrupted by the desire for something more which
caused them to grasp after something out side of them rather than being content
with what hey had inside of them.
There grasping part was then gripped with fear and they ran from the
light of the secret garden into the cave of secret hiding. They began to feel shame and blame each
other rather than accept mutual responsibility in a respectful way. This is the original sin based on an
original lie. The lie was the
flower of truth laced with the poison of arsenic of deception. They became as God knowing good and
evil without the moral fiber of God to choose the good and reject the fear and
the desire that leads to evil.
Satan told a half-truth.
The life connector of the organism was dismantled. The image of God remained but it was
“unplugged”. Humanity seeks to
plug in to external sources of apparent truth instead of connecting to the
inner truth of the image of God inside.
As it was said the “death” was of this
connection lost. Paul writes of
this in Ephesians 2:1 “You has God quickened who were dead in trespasses and
sins”. We did not fall from grace
we fell into grace when the one who is life took on death so the death that we
took on can be overcome. The
“ORGANISM” must be “quickened” that is come to life, that is connect, or get
re-plugged in to the one from whom we were unplugged.
All the organizers of the parts of humanity to
try to compensate cannot reconnect while the core elements of compassion, calm,
courage and creativity are they waiting to take the leadership of the system
once reconnected. Paul refers to
it as “quickening” or showing signs of life.
We are saved inwardly to live compassion
outwardly. What died that day in the
Garden of Eden was not our innocence. What died was the capacity to know that the
creator, regardless of anything, loves us. We are saved to heaven not from hell.
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