Monday, October 2, 2023

CHRISTIANITY FOR DUMMIES: Glorification and Salvation

Mankind was made glorious. While most fail to understand the meaning of that; it should be clear. “So, God created man in His own Image, in the Image of God created He him; male and female created He them.” [i] So what? God said, “After our likeness.” [ii]

That ‘likeness’ is as a ‘Shadow’ of God. He is the ‘Light’ and mankind is to be His Shadow, not that man was meant to be darkness, but to be a ‘fragment’ of God. Shadows go where the real object goes. Shadows are images of the real things and even walk like them.

To become a Christian is understanding that God is real, and the commitment is where He goes, you shall follow.

Flesh was provided to you to endure the world outside the Garden of Eden. While in the Garden, mankind, both the man and the woman, had a different sort of flesh. The pseudepigraphic Books of Adam and Eve reveal that the flesh of the two were of different substances than what it was after sin. Hence, the flesh that you wear is imperfect, or ‘corruptible.’ Paul explained that quite clearly to the Gentile Romans when he wrote, 

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” [iii]

 Sin changed the flesh from glorified to depraved. Glorious creatures became inglorious like the other kinds. In other words, they lost their souls — the Images of God within.

The man and the woman degenerated what God had made perfect.

All the different fleshes have identities. Scripture calls them ‘kinds.’ Adam’s kind had dominion over the other kinds. [iv] Scripture is referring to genetic taxonomy. God endowed mankind with dominant genes; genes that were superior to the other kinds. He ‘elected’ mankind to be the kind most like Himself. That election is what geneticists would call ‘natural selection’ but Christians (excepting Calvinists) believe it is Divine election.

The point to that background is that God made man like Himself but not quite Himself. Again, man is not the real Substance of God but a mere ‘fragment’ of Him. Sin caused mankind to believe that both Adams were real gods just like the LORD GOD. [v] As such, even the first two human beings came short of the glory of God because of their twisted thinking that was introduced by the new doctrine that they had consumed.

Eve immediately became the ‘Creator’ as she was the one who gave another kind of being to Adam. [vi] Eve did become a ‘god’ in a sense. She conceived Cain who was of the wicked one and passed the new kind off to Adam as his kind. [vii]

As the ‘mother of all living,’ [viii] it is implied that humans are not directly from Adam, but from Eve. It seems that the ‘father,’ or progenitor, of all of her kind is the Devil, Lucifer (aka Satan).[ix] As such, Eve’s kind are inglorious, thus coming short of the glory of God. After many generations, what genetics of Adam that remained fell far short of the glory of God until by the time of Jesus about everyone was depraved.

Jesus even commented about that, saying to the scribes and Pharisees, “Fill you up then the measure of your fathers, you serpents, you generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” [x]

Most often, the casual reader glosses over that accusation as mere rhetoric. Jesus was speaking truth to them, and it applied to all mankind as well! When Jesus measured them against their ‘fathers,’ it was more than their parent but all who came before them. Jesus was speaking of genetics. Do you think not? He said, “you generation of vipers” and even referred to them as ‘serpents.’

Jesus called them, and us as well, for what we are! We all are the progeny of the so called, ‘Serpent.’ Not to be vile, Jesus implied that we are ‘inglorious bastards’ — children of Eve and not Adam! Humans are the bastard progeny of the Devil, the ‘Serpent.’

Think not of a different kind of earthly being, but the ‘Serpent’ as a being from another realm that is not of our kind.

Isaiah the prophet said it out loud; he described the ‘Serpent’ as a ‘seraph’ (Hebrew; sarap); specifically a sarap ‘up sarap — a fiery image of a flying Seraph. Isaiah was denoting a being from another realm that could translate freely in between. Isaiah saw a type of angel whose image was as fire, just like the Holy Ghost of Jesus. [xi] The ‘Serpent’ is a being that takes on the form of God but is not God. Thusly, the ‘Serpent’ is not a glorious being but a defiled one, and the protype of sinful man. The ‘Serpent’ is the “Old Man’ archetype of which Karl Jung wrote.

The ‘Serpent’ is far from glorious! He is the angel of darkness that presents itself as light and truth but is darkness and deception.

Few would recognize the ‘Serpent’ for what it is, but Isaiah saw through its façade. (Note that therein I use the word ‘it’ rather than ‘him’ because angels in heaven are without gender, but on earth that is perhaps not true!)

Lucifer fell from heaven and his genetics changed: 

Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground. [xii]

 ‘Pomp’ is the nature of Lucifer. He was transformed from a light bringer to a bringer of darkness. His ‘viols’ were once the words of God but became noise to the ear after he had fallen. ‘Fallen’ therein is not that he physically fell from heaven, but his (its) flesh had changed from glorious to dastardly. From where did the flesh of humans come? From Lucifer as his persona changed from light to darkness, literally from the invisible to the material.

Glorious man and woman had the flesh of God that He put onto their ‘Shadow’ (the soul) in Genesis one. In the second chapter, God molded some special, glorious flesh for the two.

The two beings had been ‘naked’ in a sense. They were glorious beings with totally good flesh. After sinning with the wicked one, the two acquired another kind of flesh like Lucifer’s, the ‘Beast,’ of which they were ashamed. They immediately covered their newly acquired genitalia that caused them to have shame.

Because they covered their genitals with aprons of fig leaves, implies that they were ashamed of their new flesh. [xiii] That was their own version of circumcision; rather than cut-off what offended them, they merely covered it up. That is what wicked ones still do to this day but most still do not care!

The point to this is that you are not what you think you are! Humility is realizing that you in fact come short of the glory of God… far short. We are not truly homo sapiens (wise men) but foolish alien beings, alien to God. Neither are we really upright men, but ‘worms’ as Isaiah saw Lucifer, or as ‘Serpents’ as some say.

Think not of snakes and earthworms as such, but beasts from another realm! The ‘lost’ are not as God but as the Beast, all the while like Lucifer, we highly estimate ourselves.

So, what then is ‘salvation’? It is regenerated to glorious — a return to the Image of God and how He made us. Salvation, therefore, is regaining an upright soul, made glorious again — alive just like when God blew His Breath in the beginning, [xiv] He will do so again!

“Born again,’ [xv] is literally “engendered from above” (Strong 2006). Born in the beginning was God engendering Adam from above; at that time God breathed glory unto the lungs of Adam and Adam became a ‘fragment’ of God — the ‘Shadow’ of God Himself.

Darkness hid that Shadow, because to have a shadow, Light must shine. Lucifer brought darkness and the Shadow of God was changed to a real ‘fragment’ of Lucifer. Mankind became its kind! Thereafter, no longer did Adam have dominion over the kinds because Lucifer became dominant. The “Beast’ still rules as the ‘Prince of the Power of the Air.’ [xvi]

In a sense, everyone already has the mark of the Beast. That mark came to Lucifer’s kind through its son, Cain (of the wicked one) who was marked somehow, but God was merciful and put His own mark onto Cain. [xvii] He regenned Cain with His own Image that would soon degenerate because of the world.

Cain was perhaps a ‘giant,’  [xviii] not in stature, but like ‘Grigori’ beings from the Fifth Heaven. God would have given Cain some physical mark to cover his shame — whatever deformity it was that came from the wicked one. That deformity was depravity that could not be seen by the naked eye. As is written in the 1st Book of Enoch, blind Lamech, Cain’s own seed, saw Cain inwardly and killed the man. Blind Lamech saw the depravity in Cain that others had been unaware!

We are all in a sense, ‘Cains’ and everyone is depraved; it is very well hidden and can only be revealed when God calls us to see ourselves as we really are!

Paul called a spade a ‘spade’ when he said to the Gentile Romans, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” [xix]

Everyone, including the Jews, have sinned. By grace, for thousands of years, the Jews were safe because God engendered Abraham and his son Isaac became the ‘Shadow’ of ‘Father Abraham.’ They are no longer safe because they have not been engendered by God Himself!

It is not the flesh that God preserves, but the souls of man; the images that are like Himself, not the flesh which is like Lucifer!

Just when is a Christian saved? Of course, walking the course, all the Way, is shadowing God but to be in Christ requires more than shadowing Him. His Image must reside in us. That ‘Image’ is an invisible one — a phantom just as in the beginning — the Holy Ghost that is the Shadow of God, a fragment of His Substance, that remains on Earth to Comfort Christ’s kind.

Certainly, after the seed is planted, rebirth begins, but is not fully grown until maturity. As Paul said it, “Death is gain” for those in Christ. [xx] The gain is what? Salvation!

Speaking of the resurrection of the dead, Paul wrote, “Rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.” [xxi]

Note that glory is achieved at the resurrection; when Christians receive, “An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you.” [xxii]

‘Salvation’ is therefore glorification. It is not when the flesh is saved but when the soul is resurrected in the phantom Image of God. With that said, the old flesh is not saved; it is regenerated (regenned), and the old creature is given new flesh, not of the old creature — the ‘Serpent,’ but like the glorious flesh put on Adam as related in Genesis two. Christians are not reincarnated, but the soul is resurrected in the Image of God again to be given new flesh at the General Resurrection.

Now you should know. Salvation is not of the flesh, but of the soul, and it occurs at the end of your faith, not at its beginning! When does faith cease? When it becomes reality at the death of the Christian.

Test all things by scripture. Are you glorious yet? Are you perfect and upright and the very Image of God? Not so! Gloriousness of the flesh is rewarded when Jesus comes again to resurrect the dead. The souls of the Christians, at that time, will received new flesh just like Adam acquired in Genesis two.

The ‘Big Lie’ is something so absurd that it cannot be true. It has always been, “You shall not surely die.” [xxiii] Right now, if you follow Jesus and shadow Him all the Way, you are safe, but you are still in danger of apostasy — a falling away. [xxiv]

It is not that you trip, slip, and fall but that the affection that a person once had for Jesus has degenerated, and a theretofore follower of Christ defects through the loss of affection. The flesh is the barrier because it is weak. It seems strong to us, but it is weak to sin. During all our walks with Christ, we are tempted as Jesus was tempted.

Why would the Beast stalk Christians?

Speaking to Christians, Paul wrote to the apostle Peter… even Peter, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” [xxv] Peter was nearly ‘devoured’ one time right before the crucifixion. What was he still to do? Remain sober and be vigilant. That is what any Christian must do because the flesh is so weak that the soul can be subdued by the desires of the flesh. You all know what I am talking about!

Just how safe are you, still walking and talking like the Devil, and even shadowing him?


(picture credit; Bob Yandian Ministries; "Our Glorification")



 



[i] Gen 1:27

[ii] Gen 1:26

[iii] Rom 1:22-24

[iv] Gen 1:26

[v] Gen 3:5

[vi] Gen 4:1

[vii] 1 John 3:12

[viii] Gen 3:20

[ix] John 8:44

[x] Mat 23:32-33

[xi] Acts 2

[xii] Isa 14:11-12

[xiii] Gen 3:7

[xiv] Gen 2:7

[xv] John 3:7

[xvi] Ephes 2:2

[xvii] Gen 4:15

[xviii] Gen 6:1

[xix] Rom 3:23

[xx] Phil 1:21

[xxi] 1 Pet 1:8-9

[xxii] 1 Pet 1:4

[xxiii] Gen 3:4

[xxiv] Heb 6:6

[xxv] 1 Pet 5:8

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