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THE GRAND OBJECTIVE and ITS TERRIFIC PROBLEM
The “grand objective” we have already glimpsed in that the God-Spirit begot infant spirit-children; for whom He aspired that they should grow into the maturity of “His own likeness.”
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THE GRAND OBJECTIVE and ITS TERRIFIC PROBLEM
The “grand objective” we have already glimpsed in that the God-Spirit begot infant spirit-children; for whom He aspired that they should grow into the maturity of “His own likeness.” To facilitate and immensely speed this process, VEHICLES for expression; bodies or ‘engines’ if you please – were planned by Infinite Intelligence and fashioned by the Master Artist Himself! This physical body is God’s MASTERPIECE: designed and built to withstand the stress of time, and to perfection perfectly throughout countless thousands of years.
Yet even this was a slow process; wherefore God foresaw and decided to take advantage of Lucifer’s rebellion in order to utilize and turn to good account (for His children) the power unto growth through the ‘tornado’s’ stress of opposites. Yet this rebellion of Lucifer and the consequent, disobedience broke the Divine symphony of the ‘tabernacle’ built for the spirit, yielding death!And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
Gen 3:22
By this we perceive that the Infinite Father did not construe it well that His spirit-children should dwell in immortal bodies after disobedience had entered We must understand that the will of the Divine Parent for His offspring was ALL GOOD and FOR their GOOD. Hence His decree that the spirit of ERROR should not have immortal ‘engine’ by which to develop and grow in evil on crossroads to His planned PATH OF PERFECTION
We must realize that the ‘engine’ God designed for His spirit-children, possesses potentials and assets which He will not lightly dismiss as ‘a bad mistake.’ HE is determined to exploit to the full the opportunity unto growth in understanding made possible by the spirit through the indwelling of this ‘tabernacle’ – even while on the pathway-in-Error. THUS THE ‘PROBLEM’: HE would not permit the ‘Adam’ of bygone ages to live forever in an ‘engine’ powered unto disobedience. TRUTH has not changed. Disobedience netted death in the first instance and a little later it yielded death for the secondary, or ‘SOUL’-body.
Whatsoever was GOOD, and RIGHT in God’s PERFECT will yesterday, remains the same today and throughout the unceasing laps of the cosmic tide ‘GOD CHANGES NOT’! “The soul that sins, IT WILL DIE”? We might as well say “it MUST die”! This is, UNLESS its ‘core-rot’ of disobedience can be completely eliminated, or purged away. God will – cannot permit the roots of disobedience to become permanently entrenched, growing into an opposing force which would foil His Plan and wreck all of creation. Hence the impressiveness of ‘Hell’ and the “Lake of Fire.”
It is even like unto a ‘house’ which has become extremely radioactive, or polluted with virulent; disease germs. To live in it leads to grief and death. UNLESS it can be successfully decontaminated: IT MUST BE DESTROYED!
That ‘house’ polluted is the ‘tabernacle’ of the human body for the spirit within, VIRULENTLY CONTAMINATED BY THE SIN OF SELF-WILL WHICH RUNS AT CROSS PURPOSES TO THE GOD-WILL Yet God implemented a plan whereby this ‘house’ could be successfully ‘decontaminated’, and the ‘engine’ which it constitutes, go on unto the glorious destiny planned by its Designer (who is God).
On the other hand, IF the spirit willfully rejects the ‘decontamination plan’, then must its ‘engine’ for self expression be utterly destroyed, as well as its archetype (in which the spirit could again build another body geared unto disobedience). This final destruction of its two-fold ‘house’ when THROUGH-polluted, takes place in the “Lake of Fire.”
By Mikkel Dahl
