To build off the prior sections, the unity and truth within Christianity needs to be spelled out as from a theological and philosophical perspective, it should be the main reason why one would adhere to a Christian lifestyle. Paul did this in 1 Corinthians 15, when he talked about the harvesting of God’s people and the importance of faith in Christ as the essential principle, specifically the death, resurrection, and salvation through Christ. While we will build out in a future section the importance of belief systems and of group consciousness, this section will highlight how this pertains to the Christian faith and Biblical narrative.
Unity within the Christian narrative describes the process of reconciliation and of universalism that isn’t shared by other world religions. While we can debate the concept of unity within Buddhist concepts or the esoteric ideologies, they will have to stand in unity before God and prove that they can save themselves at some point in the future. I do not particularly believe this is wise, as most people cannot develop or understand systems (both simple or complex) in order to create a form of sustained living on their own, but my goal here is not to convince one that does not seek wisdom, rather to clarify the unity of the Christian narrative. The unity of the Christian faith is summarized in the following five points:
- The curse of the fall and the reverse of the curse by the one who created it
- The unity of all people within love, humility, and confession
- Freedom from bondage by removal of identity, possessions, and desires of flesh
- Undivided duality whereby Christ controlled the good and bad and chose good universally
- A legal bond only guided by loving God and others as yourself
The unity in the biblical narrative is fairly simple, God balanced the systems of creation in Genesis, allowed man to choose whether he accepted the system as it was or to eat of the Tree of Knowledge. From the Tree of Knowledge, we gained an understanding of how to operate against God’s will (or simply the knowledge of evil, which results in death) and God had to take it upon himself to reverse the curse within Christ. Otherwise, death and ideologies that lead to death (which is all of them) would continue as it had since the Fall.
The source or pathway to life is to accept salvation (follow the path to life in a mortal form of existence). This is done by accepting Christ and adopting the principles of love, humility, and confession. Heaven cannot exist with hidden agendas, or sexual misconduct, or other forms of human desire, as these things all create personal emotions that lend to negativity. Even in the sense of the Law of One, the world would have to adopt a sense of no bearing, emotion, or love in order to operate in a system of logic, which would essentially have to destroy emotion, love, and other things in order to be universal. In the greatest sense of dystopian reality, your freedom would be constrained by whatever principles are adopted by a group consensus (or elite selection and enforcement). There is actually no freedom in the world view of naturalism, simulation theory, or constrained reality. There is actually only freedom in the world of the fruit of the Spirit, as the people who adopt the principles (most likely by nature and why God foreknew from the onset who would be capable since creation) can live in harmony and unity with no need of laws.
Freedom from the bondage of sin and undivided duality are in essence the only aspects of true freedom. Lets say you worship booze and women, and by that, I mean your only joy in life is getting drunk and having sex. In essence, the only drive you have is to do those two things, they are your master and your god, you are not the one in control. Sure they feel good temporarily, but often come with emotions of jealousy, possession, fear, and all sorts of negative dispositions that can control you in other respects (being blackmailed, reputational risks, etc.). Hence, there is no real freedom in purely physical or fleshly desires, and you never really know you are a slave to desire until you can step back and examine it. On the converse side, if you love God and others honestly, you always have a reason to wake up the next day (spend time with God and other people). Your goals won’t necessarily be about hoarding assets or possessions, but making things that can be shared and enjoyed by all. Likewise, if your life goal is focused on a company, object, or physical thing, there is a hard limit to your own growth potential and nothing is certain but death and taxes.
The mystery of lawlessness spoken of by Paul in 2 Corinthians 2:7 has a double connotation. There is the positive aspect (Galatians 5: fruit of the Spirit) and negative aspect (anarchy or dystopian reality). We can see the negative aspect growing in the world today, people worship their identity, the way they use their genitals, how they identify, their social status, etc. Those people are a slave to a set of principles they most likely don’t even understand or evaluate to their most rudimentary assumptions (e.g., most people who follow BLM don’t realize its a socialist organization that will take away their rights after they destroy the system that actually fights for their freedom). In essence, despite your personal views on the pandemic, the government stepped in and defined what they viewed as essential workers, enforced totalitarian policies, and constrained your freedoms under the guise of public health (and quarantining the healthy was never historically deemed a useful practice). If you cannot see you are a slave to a system you do not control, then quit paying taxes and see how doing what you wish goes over…
While the process of proving disunity in other world views could take ages, I’d sum up the unity of the Christian narrative as God reversed his own curse, we have to accept our fallen status (basis for humility and honesty), accept salvation (basis for grace, unity, and undivided duality), and seek to live by the fruit of the Spirit. Then heaven becomes an extension of our current existence into the eternal existence, and no stories or ideas of non-biblical principles need to be established to understand real truth beyond what our sensory capacities currently allow us to understand. I’d like to think that our spiritual bodies have Xmen like powers, but there does not seem to be any sort of super human abilities Christ possessed after his resurrection that he did not possess beforehand (he still had the scars in his hands!).
