25/04/2025

Friday after Easter.

I know God as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT as it is as three persons that he completed his revelation of himself. The first existent human being Adam/Eve knew themselves as individuals. They knew an other than themselves and a complement to each other. They were male and female persons. They knew that the "garden" was the place where they had become the being that they were and that there was another being that was not them. God spoke to them and they knew that he was The Creator.

As an individual person I too know that in this damaged world I am a being created by Our Father and that I am a being free to accept the record of God's dealings with his people or dismiss it and so become at the moment of death aghast that I too have lost the immortality of mankind that was God's intention for us from the beginning. 

Our Father must have intended that man in the sinless garden would become something much more wonderful than I am. True man Jesus lived a life of perfect Love in this world. His miracles are such a wonderful manipulation of matter that we attribute them to God. No-one can say for certain that they were not the work of the sinless perfection of humanity that would have been Adam/Eve if they had not sinned.

The New Church both of Institution and of Love are standing on trial today in the Temple, face to face with leaders of the Chosen People just as Jesus had been. John and Peter,  humble fishermen of Galilee confront the Temple Hierarchy, the Chief Priests, who guided their nation on the path to righteousness, and are not abashed. 

These Priests were the ones who had pleaded with Pilate to kill Jesus. They were the ones who had concocted the story that is still used to deny the Resurrection but they do not even try to deny the reality of the cure of the cripple at the Beautiful Gate; they too knew that it had really happened. They do, however, continue to try to silence the "Word of God".

I pray that I may become as full in faith as is Peter who after all his weaknesses can proclaim in full view of all the Chosen People and their leaders.

This Jesus is the stone rejected by you the builders

which has become the cornerstone.

And there is salvation in no one else,

For there is no other name under heaven given among men or women

By which we must be saved.