The Living Soul
"In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth..."
...and so begins the saga of mankind in the present world.
God's objective in creating this particular universe was (and still is)
to create a place where He and mankind (male and female) can dwell together in harmony and peace.
A great deal has
happened since "The Big Inning." Our First Estate is long-gone.
Paradise Lost. The early days of our existence are now commonly referred to
as legend and myth.
After the heavens
and the earth were created, mankind was created. According to Hebrew/Christian
Scripture, mankind a.k.a. אדם
a.k.a. ahdahm, became a living Soul. The Soul of mankind is a supernatural life-form. If you don't already believe it, do you
think you could ever believe that you, yes, you, are a living Soul?
It's a fair question, isn't it?
But then again, how is a person supposed to know that they
are meant to live forever in peace with God? Given the current state of man-made "religion" in today's
world should an atheist be blamed so much for choosing to believe that God does not
exist? If God is supposed to be all about love, peace, omnipotence and harmony why does
God allow so much evil and death?
Why does God watch us suffer as we do?
TheSupernaturalist.com
addresses these questions in a non-religious atmosphere. If you have become
impatient with all kinds of man-made religion, here's hoping your visit in these
pages helps calm your spiritual nerves. Our first premise here is
simple: God is not religious. God is God. Believing it
or not is your choice. And that brings us to the second, final
premise: We live and die in a world driven by the power of choice.
"In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth..."
Despite our scientific achievements and technological
progress, that oldest of all legends still calls to us. Did God really
create all that? Does the living Soul really exist? Yes. And, yes. Your Soul is what makes you different from brute animals. God
gave the animals their lives. But he didn't give animals the Soul that He
gave to womankind and mankind. Believing so, or not, is a matter of
personal choice. Choosing to ignore and deny the existence of your Soul is
comparable to starvation. If you don't eat, your body dies. If you
don't get your Soul somehow connected to the living God, your Soul dies.
Your Soul is who-and-what you are. In its present state
your flesh is carcass. Choosing to believe it (or not) is the most important choice
anyone ever makes.
Small or great, every choice we make comes with a particular consequence attached and there is no escape from the consequences. The act of choosing and the inevitable consequence of choice are absolutely inseparable. Look around at the modern world we've chosen to build for ourselves. Isn't it obvious that no matter how hard we try, either individually or collectively, we can't get it right? Something always goes wrong. There is always some kind of improvement to be made.
We
strive in vain for perfection and forget that until the corruption of
Death no longer exists, the perfection we seek is impossible.
Nevertheless, God created the earth and its
universe and the living Soul of mankind to be His dwelling-place.
If God didn't create all of this, then where did it come from? Looking at
the way things are now, it is indeed hard to believe that walking and talking with God
really was our First Estate.
And so, for the present,
because of Satan's envy and seductive temptation, the terror and bitterness of
Death has come into our Souls through a gross misuse of our power to choose.
We are
living-and-dying with the consequences of the choice that brought death into
our Souls. We once believed that knowledge of good and evil would make
us like God. It didn't. It brought Death. By choosing as we
did, we brought death upon ourselves.
For
as long as the anomaly of time is called to-day, the spiritual
power and material decay of death will continue to chew through the existence of everything in our
cosmos. The fearsome portal of Death opens into another dimension of being
that no one from this side of the grave has ever seen. No one
that is, except Jesus of Nazareth. Believe that or not. But the fact
is that from the greatest galaxy to
the smallest particle, decay and death are apparent and ongoing. The good
news is that things
were not always like this and they won't be this way forever. God has
said, "I will make all things new."
At the moment there is an awful lot of spiritual confusion and
conflicting information about how a person, a living Soul is supposed to relate
to God. How are we supposed to pray and worship? How are we supposed
to orient ourselves toward the eternal destiny that God has prepared for us?
Meaningful answers to such questions are exquisitely personal.
The Christ of God did not enter into the agonies and death of human existence to start a new religion called "christianity." Jesus came to straighten out our spiritual confusion and remove the Curse of death from our lives: not by brains, not by brawn, but by my Spirit says the LORD of hosts.
Jesus of Nazareth is God Incarnate. God Incarnate is Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is the Creator and Savior of all living Souls. Jesus of Nazareth Himself is the bright line of demarcation between Life and Death. All the spiritual foolishness in the world cannot alter that simple supernatural fact. Your choice is whether to believe it or not. Fear not little flock. It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom: the night is far spent; the day is at hand.