When we claim, as we traditionally do, and as we interpret the Bible to mean, that its in fact our own ‘belief’, or our personal ‘faith’ that actually ‘saves’ us, are we not in fact placing the ‘will’ or ‘decision’ of a mere created moral ‘sinner’ on the same level, or even a level above the ‘saving’ purpose, and in fact the ‘will’ of God.
A grossly exaggerated level, able to usurp even God’s own determination, and His commitment to our salvation.
The ‘will of God’ that He expressed and accomplished through sending into fallen humanity, and resulting in the vicarious Death and Resurrection of the very Son of God in the flesh.
Are we not placing the ‘locus of control’ in the ‘mind of man’, instead of in the ultimate determination and will of the Sovereign God of the universe?
Are we not saying hereby that we humans actually are able to manipulate God, make up His mind for Him, get Him to ‘forgive’ us, and to ‘make us His Children’, and even ‘ receive us into heaven’, instead of sending us to hell eternally?
This we are powerful enough to do by our mere change of heart or mind, even with our last dying breath!?
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Are we not saying thereby that God basically says…’I have created you, and ‘redeemed’ you, and want to make you my own child because I unconditionally love you, but, even though I am your God, I am unable to finish the job, unless you help Me by ‘believing’ that it is so!
And, by implication, when you die without ‘saving yourself’ by your own ‘correct decision’ ,whatever Jesus had accomplished on the Cross as your Redeemer and Saviour, no longer applies to you…..you are no longer ‘forgiven’ and the Father and Jesus now turn their back on you and you are on your own 'sonny boy'!
In fact popular religious doctrine implies that should you die without making the right choices, the very Divine unconditional Love of God then reverses and turns into divine hatred!Because you in fact died as an unrepentant ‘sinner’,your angry Heavenly Father will then cast you into the fiery furnace of ‘so called’ Hell where you will be torture you eternally…you, together with the Devil and his demons!
It is time we took a long and hard and honest look at the fallacious interpretation of the meaning of scriptures linking ‘faith’ and ‘salvation’ and erroneous doctrine built around the Biblical admonition to ‘believe’!
The old traditional religious paradigm, when scrutinized in the full bright Light of Who Jesus Christ actually is, and truly represents, and what the Trinity eternally intended, and subsequently successfully accomplished on behalf of mankind, in and through the agency of the Son, has many blind spots and is inconsistent with the nature of God.
The Christian Church is not destined to remain stagnant, or to become redundant, but on the contrary is consigned to constantly being transformed from Glory to Glory by the Lord, Who is the Spirit.
This implies and necessitates a constant process of ‘unlearning’ of the old unproductive and incomplete ways of thinking and doing, the progressive reformatting of our mindset, the shifting of our paradigm, the renewal of our minds!
This journey of spiritual growth and discovery requires the courage to leave the safe and secure shallow waters of institutionalized religious traditionalism and popular dogma where the masses are, in order to launch out in to the deeper waters of ‘Spirit and Truth’
The fact of the matter is that every single human being comes into this ‘life’ with a pre-existing relationship with the Trinity!
We are not our own creators; neither do we have the innate power to sustain our own lives, even for a split second. Every human exists in a ‘creational union’ and a ‘sustaining union’ with God, therefore the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!
However when we ‘turn to God’ in Jesus Christ, ‘believe’ or ‘have faith’ we enter into a’ transformational union’ and the ‘image and likeness’ of God, lost through our spiritual demise in the fall of the First Adam, our original design’, is restored in the Last Adam, Jesus the Christ.
Jesus Christ, through His vicarious Incarnation into humanity as the Son of God, and His Life, Death, Resurrection, Ascension and Glorification as the Son of Man has reversed the damage done in the First Adam, cancelled out all distance between humanity and divinity in the ‘experience of man’, and brought humanity into eternal union with the Trinity.
We humans need to ‘Accept’,’ Believe’ and ‘have Faith in’ this fact!
Unless we ‘Believe’ ‘into’ Jesus. in other words accept that this is the ‘actual Reality‘ we are living in an ‘illusion‘ and we are out of touch with ‘Truth and Reality’!…we continue to live in the ‘illusion of separation’ from God, have no real idea of our ‘true identity’, and although ‘found ‘ and ‘saved’ we live and believe as though ‘lost’!
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