Friday, September 30, 2005

Salvation: Coin Story

In the darkness of my mother's flesh, an angel whispered into my ear that I was to recieve the gift of life. I was overjoyed, and looked forward to being freed from this cocoon of flesh and bone to see the world God had created for me.

The angel turned to me before leaving and reached into his garment. He drew forth a coin and put it into my open hands and spoke to me.

"Here is your life. Its value is limited, and is required for your admittance to Heaven. It is a gift entrusted to you. At the end of your life, I wil return to see you and take you from this world. If you carry a burden on your back, I will know that sin has entered your life. If that is the case, the price of this coin must be paid, but you will not enter Heaven. Even if you have one feather of burden, you must pay the coin. You must return this coin to Heaven for you to enter. If not, you will die with your burden on your back and will be separate from God for all eternity."

I told him that I would do all necessary to keep it clean and pure. I told him that I understood that God would not allow burdens into Heaven, but only my soul.

Sure enough, within years of leaving my mother's womb, I had a burden on my back. By then, however, I had forgotten the angel's words. As far as I was concerned, it was my coin in the first place. I didn't even remember getting it, or how excited I was when I recieved it.

As I grew, my burden grew. Soon, it was too much for me to carry. I found no way to shed myself of it. I tried everything, but nothing could free me of my burden.

One night, an angel whispered my future into my ear.

"If tonight I were to come to claim your soul, would you have the coin to return to Heaven, to the God who sent it to you? Or do you have a burden that will claim your coin?"

The next morning, I awoke, and realized that my burden was great, and I would have no coin to return to Heaven.

I sought out God, to ask him where I could get more coins to pay for my burden and then to return to him. He said I could make no coins myself, but if I gave him mine, he would pay for my burden until my death.

I asked him where I would get the coin to pay death for my sins?

I have sent my son to die for you, and through his sinless existence never had to pay for his own soul. Through his death, Death was paid ten-fold for the deaths of the Bride. When you give me your coin, it is a contract. I will then release payment to death for any sin you have or may yet acquire in your life. Give me your coin, and I will preserve your life.

I gave him my coin, and he lifted the burden from my back. I again gained burdens afterward, and once I told him about it, he came and lifted the burden from my hands. I had given him my price, and he continually freed me of my burden.

One night, when I was very old, the angel who brought me the coin came into my room and woke me.

"It is time to leave this world. I see that you have a burden upon your back. Where is your coin?"

I looked him in the eye and told him boldly that God had already claimed his coin from me and had paid for the wages of my sin.

The angel brought forth a scroll and looked through it. When he saw my name upon the list, he nodded, took the burden from my back and left it behind as he carried me to Heaven.

Before entering, the angel stopped me.

"Human, your coin is a sign of ownership. By giving your coin to God, you have given him your life. He owns your coin and your life. He used the value of his own beloved son, whose blood is worth countless coins, to pay for you. You have done well. Seek him, for he has paid a heavy price for you."

I nodded, thanked him, and turned to enter Gates, knowing God was waiting with my coin. I had someone to thank, the priceless one, for paying my life-debt. I didn't not earn my way into Heaven, Jesus did.

High Communion: Heavenly Sex and Intimacy

Sex ain't got nothin on High Communion.

High Communion, a term I'm coining right now, is to Heaven was sex is on Earth.

In Heaven, there is no marriage.

"You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures, or the power of God. "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. (Matthew 22:29-30)

Here's a visualization, but don't close your eyes.

Imagine for a moment, two globes of light. Each is like a wire frame of electricity, bolts and energy coursing with the globe. This is a representation of a soul.

Now, imagine two globes slowly pressing against each other, suddenly tasting each other as a molecular level, drinking in the essence of the other spirit. Neither dissapates or is lost in the other. Now, neither soul sees the experiences or memories of the other, or even the feelings it has felt throughout it's life, but rather drinks of the essence of experience from the other. Imagine the rapture experienced at the raw level of one soul communing in such a way with the other.

God wants to do this with his creation. This is Mating in Heaven. This is why Sex here on Earth is so completely laughable compared to High Communion in Heaven. Older couples you see that have been together for decade upon decade, and who truly are mates in every respect, are the closest to experiencing High Communion here on Earth. They are inhibited by their physical bodies and perceptions of the Earthly realm that slows down the process.

These couples are so closely intertwined, that they know things about what the other is doing instinctively. They aren't common, but it's hard to do here on Earth.

We were created so God could mate with us, because he cannot mate with angels and other spirits. It's impossible. They are of different existencial fiber. As a dog cannot mate with your leg, so cannot an angel mate with God.

When High Communion occurs, beings experience such incredible intimacy, it's no doubt indescribable in Earthly terminology.

Reference:
The Greatest Question: Why Are We Here?

The Greatest Question: Why Are We Here?

For those greatest of questions, the nature of our very existence ...

Why are we here?


:: Mate to the Diety ::

His Holiness, the God of Heaven and Earth, is first among seconds. He has no equal. As such, it, by default, would be a very lonely existence. He is the Creator of all we know and everything we don't. By his hand, the spiritual world exists according to his Will and Way.

By the nature of his creation, no animal/creature can mate with anything that is not within the same classification of creature. Dogs must mate with dogs, equines with equines, elephants with elephants. This is because the existensial fiber must be the same between two mating beings. That does not mean they must be the same gender. Yin is to yang, not yin to yin or yang to yang.

As such, God needed beings of the same existencial fiber that he himself had. That meant they had to be free-thinking beings capable of the same thought processes and feelings he himself has. They must be free from his direct influence, so that in creating these free-thinking beings, it would be by their choice, not by his direct coercion that they come into his presence.

What pleasure would it be to have beings come simply because He called? But rather beings who want to co-exist with Him of their own free will.

So he created Earth, a Universe of their own to mold and shape according to their own will, as He has the entire Universe. Within this Earth, a plane of existence separate from his own and void of his direct influence, they could grow and choose their own paths in life.

God would step among these men as an outside influence, a visiting relative that held answers but would not command Man on how to walk the steps of his life, only in direction of how to commune with his Creator.

Through man's personal choice to be with his Creator, God could finally be with someone of the same existencial fiber by choice, not by the power of his Will.

In essence, Man is a mini/demi/pseudo-God. Only, we have no powers, omnipotence or omnipresence. So many Earthly religions have tapped on the truth, but missed the point. We are not Gods to be unto ourselves, but to commune with the Creator, because we are little gods to be mate to the Great God, He who rules above.

And that, is why we exist.

There have been arguments that God is Love, and that is why we exist. Not true. Love is a commitment to the well-being of another, not the desire to procreate. I would love my wife, but that does not mean I wish to make something else to love. That's unrelated.

God wanted something to love HIM. He was lonely, with no being in existence capable of Communing with him on his own level. That is not to say we are AT His level, but rather are of the same type of being remotely capable of Communing with him.

Paul speaks of the Bride of Christ - he's telling us why we exist, right there. We are Mate to God, to commune with him and live with him.

References:
High Communion: Heavenly Sex and Intimacy

I Am Christian

I Am Christian.

I Am ...

Mate to my God
Strong
Intelligent
Aware
Responsible
Realistic
Faithful
Honest
Dedicated
Fearless
Vigilant

I Refuse to ...

Bow to Evil
Comprimise my Beliefs
Treat others the way they deserve to be treated - rather better than they deserve
Close my mind to truth and the world around me
Allow gossip to be my truth