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. awdahm) became a living Soul.  A living Soul 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?  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 and peace and omnipotence and harmony" why does He allow so much evil and death?  Why does He watch us suffer as we do?
      
    TheSupernaturalist.com addresses such 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 whom-and-what you really 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.  We have to live with the good, the bad, and the ugly consequences of the choices we make.  That's it for now.  That's how it is.  The act of choosing and the inevitable consequence of choice are 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?  There is always some kind of improvement to be made.  New!  Improved!  We strive in vain for perfection and forget that until the corruption of Death no longer exists, the perfection we seek really 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 Face-to-face with God 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 believed that knowledge of good and evil would make us like God.  It didn't.  It brought us Death.  By choosing as we did, we brought death upon ourselves and that Great Death is still chewing its way through the existence of everything in our cosmos.  From the greatest galaxy to the smallest particle, decay and death are apparent and ongoing.  Things were not always like this and they won't be this way forever.  God has said, "I will make all things new."  

    Even with all the trouble and death of our present estate, we remain in a remarkably privileged position.  For the past 2000 years there has been opportunity for all who are willing to find their way back to Life through secret prayer and worship in Christ.  Prayers made in secret lead to genuine worship in spirit and in truth.  At the moment there is a lot of spiritual confusion and conflicting information about how to pray and worship.  That's what man-made "religion" does:  it confuses things.  The Christ of God most certainly did not enter into the agonies and death of human existence to start a new religion.  Jesus came to straighten out our spiritual confusion and remove the Curse of death from our lives.  Jesus of Nazareth is God Incarnate.  God Incarnate is Jesus of Nazareth.  Jesus is the Creator and Saviour of all 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."

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