It took ages for God to finally get this picture through our heads – and he did it in the person of Christ. We are his image and likeness not his sin ridden enemies! His affirmation not his condemnation – God is not the accuser of the brethren but the liberator and encourager.
What would Christ say to an unbeliever on The Day of Judgement? According to Christianity He will say something like, “You did not believe in my redemption therefore you shall burn eternally!” As an unbeliever my reply would be,”well neither was I a believer in Adams failure so we are even…I have not died nor raised just been alive this whole time. I believe in an everlasting union between all existence and the divine.”
The Christ of Christianity would probably then at that very moment wake up and be converted, take off his crown of thorns, and retire to a life of unending love and bliss.
Christ represents the infinite tearing into the finite. An awakening to true nature and being. Our lives are an incarnation. God, human, and all existence as one.
We are washed by this wondrous love Union. It crashes down upon us, within us, every single day. Fear is self-inflicted punishment. Love devours that self hatred.
Jesse A. Kelley 