The simple, personal and next-worldly offer of Jesus Christ - for resurrected eternal Heavenly life to those who followed him - had-to-be, and was, fitted-into a scheme that:
1. Required a Church.
2. Operated at a group-level - because, in that time and place, individuals we groupish in consciousness, and could not conceptualize themselves as autonomous, agentic, individuals*
3. Prescribed a complex and detailed set of this-worldly behaviours.
But now that Men have a different consciousness;
one in which much that was spontaneous and unconscious is conscious and must be chosen;
a mode of consciousness that is spontaneously autonomous, alienated; and both able- and compelled- to be free...
We can, and probably must - sooner or later - recognize that The Creator has (because he loves us each as individual persons) arranged this creation such that we can all - as individuals, and whatever our nature and circumstances - avail ourselves of Jesus's gift and offer.
After all; why would a good and loving God do otherwise?
Why would such a God make salvation indirect, mediated, circumstantial, contingent upon social factors and individual personalities?
The answer is He Would Not!
We now can realize what Jesus did and said, from the beginning; but only recently have we been able to know and act upon it.
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