Sunday, March 4, 2012

 The following post breaks the tradition of short, pithy comments but it's important enough to put this down in case the thought gets buried for another decade.
This was banged out on the computer in a few minutes after reading a woman's profile on a christian dating site. I noticed she never mentioned God once (but did mention quantum physics). I figured it was time to shake up her thinking. Know that within hours after posting, she quit the dating site!
Here's what I wrote:
"After getting a question from one of the guys in prison where I lead a weekly bible study, I realized it's tough to wrap one's brain around how our sins could be forgiven by Jesus way back when, even before time began. So just today I imagined what it might have been like then, listening to the Father/HS/Jesus first discussing the "script' (moment by moment) for HIS life on earth. And then, having Jesus come over to where I was sitting in heaven and hearing him discuss MY script with me."

"And then...watching him climb up on a Cross (yes, right there in heaven) and pay the price for each and every sin that was there on my script. Then...descending with Jesus into Hades where the script for that particular sin was thrown in Satan's face. And then...ascending with Jesus back into heaven where I am now considered pure, without sin but, as Jesus reminded me, armed with resurrection power to be able to overcome that sin once my time/that script unravels here on earth."

"I could go on...but the point being, if the above was true, and if any memory of that happening was wiped out, erased, at the time of the Fall in the Garden...if we ponder that now, it could affect the way we approach each day. (In other words, I'm trying not to present the inmate with just some mumbo jumbo theory but rather, with something practical.)"

"Each AM, while still in bed, we could reflect on the knowledge that our script for that day is about to unfold. We could even be so bold as to ask God if he wants to give us a clue, a heads-up, as to what's coming down the pike. So we approach the day with expectancy, knowing we're in God's will with whatever happens.And if we find ourselves in the midst of temptation during the day, to reflect back on that time before time began, when we accompanied Jesus down to Hades where his efforts were laughed at and made to be innocuous.And finally, at the day's end, whether or not the above steps were taken, we can still reflect back over the day and confess each sin we might have done, remembering (back before time began) that it was paid by Christ on the Cross while we watched in horror."

"So I'm hoping, by breaking it down like that, to convey a better insight into what otherwise ends up being an empty phrase--Christ died for our sins. I could provide some scripture to back some of these ideas up. It's not a lock-tight case. But like you, I've found quantum physics to be tantalizingly close to describing what God himself is like. (Non-locality means God is omnipresent...everywhere! How cool is that? And every one of our atoms, in its tiniest parts, are evidently in touch with every other subatomic particle everywhere! Considering, in the final analysis, that it's God who holds it all together according to Colossians.)"

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