The Answer to the Question of What is Real
Part Three – The Individual
The beginning of creation is founded personally on the premise of one God and one man and one woman committed to each other. Nothing else was necessary in the Garden of Eden for purpose to be realized.
And so it is today.
The state is complicated. The objective is confusing. Government debates can render division as is being experienced in America today. In history, theological debate can result in the Reformation which, in societal transition, was anything but peaceful.
The state reflects the family.
The family can be complicated. Differences in personality, opinions, and beliefs can render anxiety in application of objective. Families can even be at war within themselves, particularly if power is the cause of the objective.
Families reflect the individual.
The individual in spirit is not complicated. We become complicated as individuals when we let this system of things, through family and politics, distort the objective. The Garden of Eden was perfect because Adam and Eve, before partaking of the forbidden fruit, realized peace in surrender of will.
The cross is signified by God at the crown and mankind at the foot. This vertical axis is the ultimate binding connection between God and man. This ordained relationship is inviolate in purpose and objective. The horizontal axis of the cross supports all elements of society reflected by the family and the state. The family is at the nexus of the cross in direct line on the vertical axis.
As individuals, we must decide not what is the meaning of life, but what is our purpose and objective in life.
Atheists may come to the conclusion that there is no meaning and therefore no purpose of life. In such a faith, all personal relationships also have no meaning or purpose. For what could they possibly be in eternity? In atheism, the purpose is formed to meet what is perceived as reality, that families and state are directive. They are not. By allowing the state and family to determine the purpose of the individual, a circle of defeat in personal will is the result.
Only the individual has direct ordained purpose of existence. In that purpose, a family reflects the individual and the state reflects families. Based upon the direct identification of an individual with God, families and states are in alignment with the structure and meaning of the cross.
This week of Advent is not just a time when Christians celebrate the birth of Christ and prepare for His return. It is a time when Christians pray for the salvation of souls, that every individual will know the peace of surrender in Christ.
A Christian by faith gives up one’s right to oneself. They do not seek answers for survival in this system of things through family or state structures. They exist to obey the will of the Lord their God. In this obedience, they find ultimate peace knowing that God has a purpose for existence which includes their purpose and well-being. Christians wish this peace for all their brothers and sisters. Charity is not natural. It is generated out of a spirit to love thy neighbor as thyself. In this unconditional love extended from God, mutual love of purpose is realized.
In this season of Advent, hope is personified. The conflicts of state in these times do not matter. The knowledge that history repeats itself is reaffirming that only in surrender to God does one find peace.
Many would say the faith of Christians is childish, unjustified, or even pure superstition. Yet, through reliance upon this system of things to determine personal purpose, they continue to realize perpetual disappointment.
The answer to the question of what is real, in reference to the individual, is that each of us has the power to decide our purpose based upon the Good News of Jesus Christ.
In grateful surrender to God through Christ, we are equal to Adam and Eve, through the place of the original relationship with God, in the Garden of Eden.
In these times of great consternation, may you find God’s personal purpose for yourself. And, in surrendering to His will, may the Peace of the Lord be with you.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?