At the center of reality, that from which all reality springs, reality itself, is God the Creator. Because one of God’s names is Love, God allows all created beings to have their full enjoyment of all the elements of Creation in the spiritual universe. All good things are present to all created beings without the constraint of time and space and causality (consequence). This is why life outside the body and this realm of time and space is often called the Paradise.
But because God is also named Mercy, and Justice, God created the universe of time and space in order to self-manifest fully. So created beings are incarnated into this universe of limit and laws, of time and space and consequences. This universe is characterized by radical diversity, whose ultimate, underlying reality is attainable only through Love, for Love is the ultimate, unifying law. As in the spiritual universe, we beings (now human here) enjoy the very and many faces of diversity such as natural beauty, what some call nature, although the natural world is merely a dim shadow of the beauty in the spiritual world, since spiritual beauty is not limited by matter and time and space and can therefore be experienced exponentially.
Now in the spiritual universe, all beings enjoy all the goods of God’s Creation regardless of their deserving. In other words, if a being is not capable of showing love itself, this does not dissuade God from allowing that being to enjoy the unlimited goods of Creation, wherefore Jesus encouraged us to be perfect in showing unconditional love to others in this world “that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Matthew 5:45) God does this because yet another name for God is Grace, the quality of fully and freely giving without expectation.
The only caveat of non-loving beings enjoying God’s spiritual paradise is that they often self-limit their capacity to enjoy God’s good, to the extent that they have hardened their hearts to love while incarnated in this physical universe. Hence we are able to experience less and less paradise as we live lives intentionally less and less loving, or more and more unloving.
When in the physical universe, God’s created beings (now human) are more apt to reveal their hearts and characters, whether they are either ultimately loving or selfish or even hateful. And because this universe is subject to time and space and consequence, we see ugliness and want in our human society; dependent, as it is, on some souls who are not loving. Social ugliness such as, let’s say, racism, is the consequence of souls who are not loving. These souls reject the diversity of persons in the society of created beings in the name of some arbitrary criteria of race but might have done so for any other dividing basis. These souls are destined to manifest God’s justice—which is the consequence of not choosing love. As the material universe gradually coalesce in love in order to manifest God’s name as such, those beings who choose to reject love will find themselves isolated and closed in, and the full picture of this state is what is called Hell or the Lake of Fire.
Yet this fire is no more than love manifest in time and space, so that if a non-loving being only chooses to love instead, such fire will become paradise again and this being will be celebrated, like the prodigal son, for being once dead, and now alive. This is the full truth of God as Justice, as Mercy, and as Love.
So let us enjoy the very many faces of diversity in this universe of time and space. Let us choose a loving heart, unifying all things in our love as true Children of God. Let us love “nature’s” diversity, as well as the diversity of persons in our own human community. Because what good is there in taking the by-way of hate and destruction and ugliness, except to know what it tastes like.
But as for me, I am not the type to taste feces just to know what it tastes like, lol.
But because God is also named Mercy, and Justice, God created the universe of time and space in order to self-manifest fully. So created beings are incarnated into this universe of limit and laws, of time and space and consequences. This universe is characterized by radical diversity, whose ultimate, underlying reality is attainable only through Love, for Love is the ultimate, unifying law. As in the spiritual universe, we beings (now human here) enjoy the very and many faces of diversity such as natural beauty, what some call nature, although the natural world is merely a dim shadow of the beauty in the spiritual world, since spiritual beauty is not limited by matter and time and space and can therefore be experienced exponentially.
Now in the spiritual universe, all beings enjoy all the goods of God’s Creation regardless of their deserving. In other words, if a being is not capable of showing love itself, this does not dissuade God from allowing that being to enjoy the unlimited goods of Creation, wherefore Jesus encouraged us to be perfect in showing unconditional love to others in this world “that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Matthew 5:45) God does this because yet another name for God is Grace, the quality of fully and freely giving without expectation.
The only caveat of non-loving beings enjoying God’s spiritual paradise is that they often self-limit their capacity to enjoy God’s good, to the extent that they have hardened their hearts to love while incarnated in this physical universe. Hence we are able to experience less and less paradise as we live lives intentionally less and less loving, or more and more unloving.
When in the physical universe, God’s created beings (now human) are more apt to reveal their hearts and characters, whether they are either ultimately loving or selfish or even hateful. And because this universe is subject to time and space and consequence, we see ugliness and want in our human society; dependent, as it is, on some souls who are not loving. Social ugliness such as, let’s say, racism, is the consequence of souls who are not loving. These souls reject the diversity of persons in the society of created beings in the name of some arbitrary criteria of race but might have done so for any other dividing basis. These souls are destined to manifest God’s justice—which is the consequence of not choosing love. As the material universe gradually coalesce in love in order to manifest God’s name as such, those beings who choose to reject love will find themselves isolated and closed in, and the full picture of this state is what is called Hell or the Lake of Fire.
Yet this fire is no more than love manifest in time and space, so that if a non-loving being only chooses to love instead, such fire will become paradise again and this being will be celebrated, like the prodigal son, for being once dead, and now alive. This is the full truth of God as Justice, as Mercy, and as Love.
So let us enjoy the very many faces of diversity in this universe of time and space. Let us choose a loving heart, unifying all things in our love as true Children of God. Let us love “nature’s” diversity, as well as the diversity of persons in our own human community. Because what good is there in taking the by-way of hate and destruction and ugliness, except to know what it tastes like.
But as for me, I am not the type to taste feces just to know what it tastes like, lol.
