For in Him we are living and moving and are, as some poets of yours have also declared, 'For of that race also are we'
Acts of the Apostles 17: 28, Concordant New Testament
Popular Christian theology speaks to the fact that Christ Jesus was born of God. Yet those within the church also speak to the lie that although man has been created in the likeness of God, that he shares no connection with Him. That through his own sin, he has been separated from God who created him. The truth is that we have also been born of the Father {Acts of the Apostles 17:28}. More than being created in His likeness is the fact that we were created THROUGH Him {Paul to the Ephesians 4:6}. This truth is important to describing our life as we now know it. For we do not live separated from God, but in union with Him {Johns Account 14:20}. Those in the church will ask, how is this even possible for sinful man? The answer to that question centers around Christ Jesus. For if we understand and believe that Jesus came, born of man, to forgive that sin debt of mankind, then we must also understand that man no longer lives toiling in the bondages of sin {Paul to the Romans 6:6}. Indeed, Jesus has taken that sin debt upon Himself at the cross {Paul to the Corinthians (2) 5:21}. So, tell me, what sin remains that Jesus has not covered already? It is through the finished work of Christ on the cross that man has been reconciled to the Father once again {Paul to the Romans 5:10}. Make no mistake, you will never hear this truth being spoken from the pulpits of the mainstream church. But just because someone does not speak the truth in no way negates that truth. It simply means that there will be many who ignore the truth of our life in the Father. One comment which I have often made to a good friend of mine is the fight we have against centuries of church based separation theology. It is spoken each and every Sunday in thousands of churches worldwide. But, as I have said, this in no way negates the truth of our life within God. Jesus Himself has declared our life in He and the Father {Johns Account 14:20}. This is the life I live in Him.
My own realization of my life in God has often not been an easy pill swallow. Growing up in the church, I was fed the sermons and Sunday school lessons spoken by the church from an early age. I came to believe what I had been taught. I came to see God as an impersonal being. God to me was simply someone I went to when I was in trouble or in need. He was also the one who looked down on me judging every aspect of my life. There is NO room in this view of God for any kind of relationship with Him. Yet this is the desire of the Lord, that His children would come to know Him in that intimate way {Johns Account 17:3}. Indeed, the truth of our life in God and that spoken by the church are in direct contrast with one another. On one side is the love and forgiveness of a life within the Father while on the other is a life continually burdened by sin. Sin which Christ Jesus has already given Himself for {Paul to the Romans 6:10}. I propose that we cannot truly know Jesus if we adhere to the separation theology of the church. As I sat in the pews of the church, I did not know Him on that personal level. That all changed when I stepped away from the church and its teachings. Through the conversations with a dear friend, my eyes were opened to something I never knew I had, a relationship with God. God is no longer impersonal to me. My goal through these writings has always been to bring others into the understanding of the Father which has been revealed to me through Him. That I am indeed born of God.
Now it is the eonian life that they may know thee, the only true God, and Him Whom Thou dost commission, Christ Jesus
Johns Account 17: 3, Concordant New Testament
~Scott~
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