Those
who search the Scriptures and think that
through them they will get life are, according
to Jesus, ignoring the omnipresent creative
word and separating themselves from its
perfect manifestation, man.
Man
is falling just to the extent that he
is ignoring the living Word in himself.
Man must keep affirming the living Word;
then he will have the transformed body.
Jesus
Christ is the Word demonstrated as perfect
man, and through Him we are saved from
the fall. In these words we find an epitome
of both the law and the gospel.
The
Bible is at the same time the simplest
and the greatest of all books. It is great
because it deals with great matters in
simple ways. It eliminates the transient,
unnecessary temporalities and goes direct
to the gist of the subject.
We
have not understood the depth and height
of these simple allegories and symbols
sprinkled all through the Bible. They
are condensed explanations, stripped of
minor details, of the great underlying
laws of existence. A mortal description
of creation would make time a necessary
element, but the author of Genesis is
not caught in this trap of mortality. "In the beginning God created."
Time
is a human invention and acts as a barrier
to a broader conception of creative processes.
All attempts to find a date for the beginning
of man are futile. Years are associated
with events, and when the events are past
the years go with them. States of mind
make events, and new states of mind are
constantly being formed; consequently
every moment is the beginning
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