I'm beginning to think that a proper understanding of the Second Creation, made by the work of Jesus Christ, may be the key to what we most need to understand.
There has, at least since the Apostle Paul, been a variety of more-or-less complex ideas related to a Second Creation made possible by Jesus; but my sense is that these were all - more or less - this-worldly. All tried to express the Second Creation in terms of possibilities (or duties) for Christians here on earth, in this mortal life.
There was (for example) the promise or hope that after Jesus' resurrection, "from now" all Christians could participate in the Second Creation in some real sense. That potentially human society and the world itself might be transformed into a Heaven on Earth - either incrementally (via the City of God), or at the Second Coming.
But what I am suggesting about the reality of the Second Creation is neither complex nor this-worldly; but utterly simple, and next-worldly.
What I am saying is that the Second Creation is already (and from the time of Jesus) fully-in-existence, that it comes after death and resurrection, and that it is Heaven.
In different words: Jesus made Heaven, and Heaven is the Second Creation; and all who desire it may follow Jesus to the Second Creation.
But -- this can only happen after death, because Heaven is the realm of the resurrected: the immortally re-incarnated.
2 comments:
The last couple weeks of posts have been especially good in my opinion and this is no exception.
The message is continually getting clearer and sharper and I am very grateful I discovered this blog!
(By the way I've since changed the youtube link for NWI removing the trailing digits. @newworldisland is the correct address as the current one on the sidebar no longer works.)
@David.
Thank you.
And I'll update the link...
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