...God is Light and in him is no darkness at all...
For various walks in life, please use the word EnergySource, Universe or TheGreatSpirit
for God. We are ...Living Stones... a Spiritual House...the Temple of God...
~ 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Cor 3:16. All truth goes through three stages ...ridiculed...violently rejected...third, accepted as self-evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer.
The Old-Ego-Ambition-Me-Me-Me
part of us can NOT receive eternal life from God. It is not capable of this function.
It is the New-Creation-in-Christ
part of us that receives new life from God. God first creates a new life in our heart and then energizes it.
Our Old-Ego-Ambition dies. It fades away. It must go the way of the cross. This is symbolized in baptism. Paraphrasing the words of our Christ-Messiah: ...He who would gain his Self-Ego-Life shall lose his soul. But he who would lose his Self-Ego-Life for my sake, shall gain his soul unto eternal life.
Many of us think eternal life
is an insurance contract effective when we die.
So we invoke this contract to guarantee life after death? Part of this is true, but very limited.
Eternal life is a change in the energy source for our soul.
Our soul used to be energized by the Old-Ego-Ambition-Me-Me-Me. Until we realized that this was a negative frequency. The Son of God died on the cross to purchase my life back from satanic slavery. The Spirit of God is the new energy source for my soul.
Christ Messiah is specific.
He says ...He that believes on the Son has [present tense] eternal life...
John 3:36. Not some undefined future date. The present tense means here and now.
Eternal life starts when we believe on the Son?
Eternal life is much more than a future guarantee. It can start now. It is NOT energy for our Old-Ego-Ambition. It is energy for the New-Creation that we become when we believe on the Son of God.
[The present tense instruction about eternal life is repeated in John 17: 3, Romans 6:23, I John 5:13, I John 2:17.]
self-worship.
Eternal life is a change in the current center of gravity of who we are. It is a change in our composition as a human being. And the best thing: it can start in THIS life. It can be here and now.
When and if we believe on the Son of God who died for us and if we sincerely regret the things we have done wrong (sins), past and present, and turn away from these things, we become connected to a positive new energy source.
The energy source for who I am (my persona) is no longer my own negative self-worship
or ego.
The new energy source for who I am becomes the Lamb of God who is the life source of the universe.
The old ego is a source of negativity.
Our ego must be regulated. This is a conscious denial of our me-me-me-impulse.
By definition, the ego cannot go on to eternal life. Only the new nature, also called the new creation can go on to eternal life.
Eternal life is when our center of gravity is no longer ourselves, meaning our ego
or self-worship
. Our center of gravity changes to a new person: The Lamb of God, The Messiah Jesus Christ.
It is a great relief when our competitive and demanding ego is denied (dies) on the cross daily via Christ's substitutionary death.
Our new persona-life grows and matures. Denying this old nature
of ego-self is the key to a new life, new lifestyle and escape from an old, deceptive, never satisfied
circuit of negativity. Ephesians 4:22
All of our other lifestyle changes grow out of this basic change in our center of gravity. Instead of being directed by our own ego, we ask our Heavenly Father for His Wisdom from Above. The life of Christ becomes our wisdom.
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It is true liberty to engage our will for God instead.
This is the doorway to a new life with energy from above.
This is where we find true identity and fulfillment.
When our center of gravity changes to The Son of God Who Died For Us, we are liberated (set free) to become a true person. No pretense needed. No competition. Our motivation is changed from ego-driven to God-given. No fear of death because our true persona continues after our physical shell
dies. This is the art of truly living and a life-long learning process.
We are liberated to become the person we were created to be. It is true Joy and Fulfillment.
When we enter the Family of God the Father through the Doorway of His Son, we become part of a Living Temple. We become true human beings. It is a simple change. It is about connecting to the energy source of the universe.
So actually, eternal life is a Person.
...In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it...
John 1
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