06/09/2021

What is amazing in the teaching of St Paul is that what he is saying is still essential knowledge for us who are living so long after him. The Church as the Body of Christ is still part of our learning and it is one of our building blocks held together by the mortar that is Love. Many of the people who heard this teaching were unfamiliar with the OT and had only a superstitious awareness of afterlife. The Philosophers had thought out a discreditation of  the Olympic Pantheon;  mystery cults from the East were beginning to attract those who had time to think about such things, Even in Rome it was said that the "Orontes was flowing into the Tiber"

St Paul teaches that the resurrected Christ has an existence that is outside the created universe and that this life which is never ending is shared by all of us who recognise and bear witness to him. How do we bear witness? By living our mortal lives in obedience to the Law revealed by God first to those whom he favoured in the Middle East and now to the whole of mankind. He also teaches that the dead too share in the eternal living of Jesus and can intercede for us in the presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

This new heavenly existence is there for us to attain through the Incarnation, Life Death and Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus here on earth 2000 years ago. The Son of God walked this earth 2000 years ago and was rejected to the point of being tortured on a Cross and I am still contributing to that torture by failing to live without sin. God forgive me.

Dear Lord you know in person each one of us mortal souls; send your love into to the billions of beating hearts that we may truly believe the revelations of your Son and his Apostles and find peace in the New Creation you have prepared for us.