Visions, opinions, vastly different descriptions of Earth, Sky and Heaven. What is it that we really want out of this life? Like it or not, believe your experience unique, there still remain a limited number of options to finish a set of challenges over which you have little time to prepare. None of us paupers in the talents and gifts department which, surprising in itself means that there is some management insight or thorough understanding of the requirements.
Many defer to the use of the name architect. Duly recognizing their penchant for technology or scientific scholarship, even acknowledging the liberal role of arts and imagination. Yet, this presents dilemma surrounding the recognition and existence of a set of plans, a rolled scroll of evidence necessary to admit an author by rummaging, analyzing and recognizing the careful crafting of each specie. Never surrendering to the fact that all this may have taken seconds.
Let’s for acknowledgement sake say this life, however long or short is the end of each existence or even the opposite that we are cast into a set of learning lives, each ending in a recycle. Does that show some faith in a designer or is it simply a mindless set of proteins caught in a controlled loop sponsored by interactions of matter? Would that be wonderful to have a nearly infinite chance to make and redo each of our mistakes, loves lost or missed opportunities?
It still maintains that at the end of that prescribed, unled or managed cycle it simply ends without a judgment, without a plan without a plateau predefined at which our lives are forfeit. Or does it in fact simply imply that there must be a judge, that this judge is beyond the time limits of mortality as He/She/It must be present when you have “finished the cycle”, met the criteria or played out your offering of available practice lives? Who decides try as you might you will never make it.
And what of the goodness quotient that is arbitrarily assigned by man deeming himself capable of saying we deserve the hereafter? How many are self justified or caught in the vortex of works hoping at the end to here the buzzer or bell sound deeming us good enough for afterlife? There are so few options I sympathize with the enemy’s dilemma. Denying imminent judgment, leaves a narrow prospectus of opportunities for completion of elevation. In fact assigning a level of achievement leads to the same quandary in each life. How much is just enough?
The only rational design, assuming their is a designer is for the designer to either establish the measure of goodness up front if in fact that will be the sole deciding factor or to remove self achievement as criteria for advancement. If I can never do anything to earn my way then I am forced immediately into a path of relationship that includes my maker in each day I live. For if He/She/It is the only one to determine my qualification then I must keep that perspective clearly in my sights that I remain on the right path.
Additionally, we must reconcile with the meaning of the impossible and the limitations of talent, time, treasure and technique available to man to overcome those issues beyond mortality. For example, when the wages of a single sin is death, then I can never pay that debt as it will demand my end in earning it. This makes tremendous logical sense when dealing with Divinity. The designer must see the value in forgiveness and provide an avenue to wave, cancel or pay that sin debt being the only one capable of achieving the impossible.
As well it must be done either in magnanimity or expectation of some asset creation in the process making it worth while to remove/pay the debt that no man can afford. It immediately leads the creation to know something of their creator. For it raises the immediate question of why the Creator would consider this process beneficial to either party when it appears so one sided. Worse yet it calls into question the idea of being reincarnated as even greater nuisance, having to maintain a Godly patience level commensurate with each person achieving fulfillment. And what of the slow learner?
No the only path forward is a correction of the path behind. That, having already been acknowledged as impossible debt for temporary man to pay, then two things become crystal in clarity; one God wants us to complete the path only He can achieve and two, since He gets to set all the limiting ranges or criteria it is only something we get to choose solely based on the regulations He prescribes. To end the Debt we need God’s power, to get to the hereafter we need that debt paid in this lifetime, we cannot do it ourselves and are fully dependent on God’s determination of our worthiness.
Let’s say for the sake of understanding that He already published and declared all the parameters and ranges of performance/choice for all to know? He has clearly shown and made known that to break the bond of this temporary life we must be found consistent with those per-determined directions. And furthermore He has made it entirely based on surrender, humility, faith and obedience to those parameters. Then He has established that there is a time limit that no one but He knows so that each of us must be mindful of making that decision with ample time remaining.
Then as a twist of disobedience each person suffers the Loss of that clarity leaving them turned over to make up their own version in substitute. And left over time to this imaginary existence they are completely turned over to the sinful state from which only His Plan may release them. And all the time there are those of each belief parameter, some believing themselves worthy of near infinite reincarnation to have multiple attempts at getting works right, other believing themselves good enough or will achieve that arbitrary goodness that they themselves have determined or their idol policy demands.
See how messy it becomes. The only cleansing grace that the Holy Spirit provides the sole voice outside of published scripture notifying people of the invitation to accept the gifting. This explains our world and the environment/fields ripe and ready before our vision. All are offered, all are worthy, none have to achieve either through works or repetition. The simplicity of design is its complexity. That all we have to do is accept a gift to get the greatest reward any of us may achieve in temporary existence. Yet, we want to rescue complexity from the simple being able to feebly and briefly say that we did it our own way.