The Plus Of The Cross

 

Where can I begin to convey the great plus sign the cross of Jesus represents to me? Other forms of worship have their meaningful symbols and gods but Christianity and the cross represent a god who can empathise with his Creation. A God that can defy death. A living god full of great promises and salvation.

Jesus hung on a cross between Heaven and Earth until the death of his mortal body. He made the atoning sacrifice for our sins with his death and blood. He understood what it was like to be human. He was a man until his death on the cross. Then his divinity went to work and raised him from the dead. Jesus knows human life and death. Jesus knows the human family structure. He was Mary's son adopted by Joseph and the brother of Joseph's other children. Jesus is a family man. He worked with Joseph in the family trade of carpentry. Jesus was a fellow laborer. With his faith in his divinity, he began his doomed ministry of miracles, teaching, and prophecy until his date with the cross which he foreknew. Jesus was a man of great faith and believed that beyond death lay his greatest mission as the Saviour son of God!

Jesus is humanity's death-defiant god. He liberates us from the fear of what to do if our god dies. In Jesus the answer is to relax, he will rise from the grave. In his ministry, he raised people back to life from death but his greatest resurrection was that of himself. He will never abandon us by dying on the job. His reign will be forever. He is our eternal god!

Jesus identified himself as one with the Heavenly Father. He was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophesies about a coming suffering servant child of God. With that, there are great promises in the Old Testament for those who can believe the prophets. In his lifetime Jesus made some great promises too. Having a living God is a position of great promise as any fantasy game player knows the only thing better than a wizard's help is a living god on your side!

There you have it. When I see a cross I think of god's empathy, eternity, and great promises in Jesus. Jesus was more than a man in my belief, and a very human identifiable with deity. He was not a Zeus enthroned on a mountaintop but a living god who became like his creation and offered Salvation and the gifts of the Holy Spirit if we can believe...

Orientational Bullets

 

1. The infinite outer space as God-mind visualizer of universes, creator of planes of existence, giver of eternal life and gifts.

2. Matter building blocks other than compressed infinitesimal dimensions of space as surface creations masking the infinite space matter in the depth of everything.

3. Space is formable into space balls (like snowballs) and space beams (like lazars).

4. Everything, everyone, everywhere as part (members) of God's body of work linked to his infinite mind's eye life and potential.

5. The adversary to mastery and normal life expects no one to hold onto belief beyond simple finite sensory illusions disputing the facts with fictions of the senses. This is especially true if one is born into an illusory creation.  

6. Focus. Concentrate. Practice visualization (guided daydreaming). Pi and e, irrational numbers all show infinite quantities, numbers workable with, in a shorthand notation given value, to various outcomes like calculation of the area of a circle. 

7. Instead of sitting a student body cross-legged in meditation until they open their link to the infinite mind's eye, I share knowledge of the infinite Godhead. 

8. For a koan I suggest " what is real".

9. For a seed thought I recommend " infinite mind's eye visualization creations".

10. For a mantra I offer " I see through the veil of Maya to infinite reality".

11. A great two-word mantra is "members only" thought or said aloud dwelling on everything, everyone, everywhere being part of God's body of work.

This concludes the orientational bullets. 

 

Contrasts Between Creations and Heaven!

 

We will plunge into some fundamental contrasts between Creations and Heaven this time. In creations, often, the lifeforms are mortal. In Heaven, the beings exist for all eternity. Also, in Creations, mortal lives are often prone to afflictions. In the Heavens, everyone is immune to almost everything except themselves or getting immersed in contaminants. In Creations, the explanation for the ongoings is often a tale told by experience, whether of a living god or research scientists. In the Heavenly realms, the ongoings are described by the think tank, and there are many different editions of the explanation, which basically is reality is God, he can create and give life and has natural abilities he shares with the living beings both in the Heavens and Creations.

In many Creations, you will find the lifeforms are mortal. From plants to sea, land, and airborne lives to even intelligent life. All share being limited in their assorted lifespans. All will someday become inanimate and cease the activities of their life. In Heaven, they live forever. They are eternal eyes. Their vision bodies are in perpetual motion. They will never become inanimate. They have endless lives.

The mortals in Creations are often very prone. Damages to their bodies are possible, even fatal at times. War, crime, accidents, diseases, and disasters plague intelligent lives with their repeated and relentless occurrences. In the Heavenly realms, there are war games. No one wants a war, as everyone is too gifted with power. The only crime possible is contaminating others or their work; again, everyone is too potent to consider doing so. Foreknowledge prevents accidents. The only diseases are mental. Disasters are not caused because it is Heaven, and God would become very upset. 

Creations are often the work of epic storytellers spinning their yarn to entertain their chosen audience. In the story, the intelligent lives may be told a story by their living god, who is the storyteller about what is happening. Or, this narrative in the Creation may be omitted, and the intelligent lives, through research, tell their own explanation of what they experience. Both may leave much untold. In Heaven, the think tanks have extensively surveyed reality and produced editions of reports on the ongoings therein. One may choose a report or refer to them all in forming one's orientation. Everyone can eyewitness Creations and enjoy Heavenly Realms memberships.