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."