CHANGE THE STORY ("Back to the Future")

Rather than

'Back to Eden'

Perhaps The Plan is more Like

"Back to the Future". (If you know what I mean.)



The paradigm of salvation history most western Christians follow has been;

1. Creation 2. Fall 3. Redemption (return to original condition).


The new paradigm (really the old one being rediscovered in the West and never completely abandoned in the Orthodox East) is;

1.Creation 2. Incarnation 3. Re-Creation (ultimate creation completed in transcendence).

If you think about it you will see the revolutionary difference the paradigm shift creates. The Old paradigm is a dead end. At best it leads us back to the beginning with a trail of suffering, sorrow and death that amounts to nothing but a diversion and a waste of tears. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. What is the point of history if Eden is the goal?
If God's story is all about restoring us to our lost innocence in the Garden, then how are the torture, rape and sadistic killing of one child worth the price of this creation? Is our God so blinkered that He could not know the consequences of temptation and sin? Was He really thwarted in His 'A' plan by our obstinacy? Was Jesus a stopgap measure to get us back to the relating to God as pets of the garden of delights? Was the sufferings of billions of creatures for millions of years really neccessary?
However, if, as stated in the scripture, Jesus was crucified from the foundations of the world, then there is no way that Fall and Redemption should be the focal points of the Salvation story.
Jesus was the 'A' plan, the only plan, from before the beginning and suffering (Jesus' and ours) is a mysterious neccessity in the process of creating the Sons of God.
The bible intimates that the goal all along has been to make us like Him. To transform and transfigure our created/evolved bodies of dirt into a spiritual/eternal body that will unite with Christ in the most intimate and unimaginable ecstasy for eternity in a conjugal bond of perfect love and union.
(What did you think was supposed to follow the marriage supper of the lamb, Pinochle?)

This makes the plan Creation-Incarnation-Re Creation(a Honeymoon that never has to end).
The right emphasis is restored.

Perhaps when the Paradigm is shifted, the knowledge of God can begin to fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. It will be knowledge of a loving and longing God not a vengeful, condemning and destroying God.

The walls of condemnation can start to come down. Our tiny ever shrinking 'in crowd' (church)will then be able to venture out to embrace the 'out crowd' (everyone else) and unite in a fellowship of our common Humanity made in God's image.
We are emphatically called to love one another by the exclamation point of Jesus' incarnation which says, 'You are made in God's image, I came and took on your flesh and now the Image you palely reflect will become the perfect reality of your new being for all time and eternity'.

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GOOD NEWS

MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGEMENT
AND LOVE OVER 'OTHER' CONDEMNATION
(for truly there is no 'OTHER'.
We are all made in God's image
and included by the miracle
of incarnation and transfiguration.)

Rejoice.
The beloved community will appear
and the old ways of sacrificial scapegoating
can be finally and completely set aside.

Behold I make all things new.

Even so Lord Come
and establish your
beloved community
and make us your bride.

SELAH.