Christian theology is beyond an analysis of treatises made by those before us. The culmination of theology is centered in the worship of God and the reflection of God upon us. The theological language of the Christian scripture is ultimately filled with conceptual frameworks which are projected by the multitude of authors to establish analogical imagery with the directed audience. In this matter, the exploration of theology continues to grow and experience a transformation based upon the ages. It is in this that the topic of the theology of salvation (soteriology) plays a major role among the traditions of Christianity. In the essence upon God thus exists the infinite paradox of which soteriology consists in the transformation of the will of humanity and the desire to love.
The Love of God
The Love of God from mankind towards God is the act of worship. The concept is then usually adhered to with the term philotheia: Philo – love, and theia - God. Yet the love of God towards humankind cannot be denoted by a motion of worship. On the contrary, the denotation of the practice of love is of one containing the characteristics of calling mankind towards Him. Humankind lives among an infinite Exodus in which we possess a state of partial ignorance. This ignorance inhabits an analogical frame of the new desert from which we conclude salvation is within the stories of the people of God that engulfed the twelve tribes. Like the Israelites, the rest of humankind walks toward a path. The process of God’s love is engulfed in the purification of both mind and body, as well as the illumination of the soul. The process of catharsis is done by the perception of the beautiful among humankind. While the perfected beauty refers to the essence of God which can be perceived by created being through His acts, such essence it’s also alluded in the mere existence of poetic beauty. Such beauty does not alone centralize the theory of works of literature, but as well as of all the arts, and even that of nature. Anything which is beautiful moves the soul towards God. This is the power of potency. Potency is the aptitude that each being has (human or not) to receive an act from a foreign body that creates an action. These actions move the receptors closer to the origin of the act. The process of catharsis is then engaged by multiple moments in which potency occurs. The same way that a child will discover his aptitude towards playing an instrument only through the process of a multitude of experiences that refine his state.
The second nature of the salvation of humankind falls upon the experience of theoria. Theoria is the contemplation for the faith of the Divine. However, before faith, the act of contemplation is preceded by wonder. In this matter, wonder it's merely the early stages of faith. Humans that wonder about the past and that it’s about the origins of life are in themselves experiencing the stages of illumination. Even among anti-theists that dare to explore the sciences of the universe in such exists the imperfect worship of God. This it’s because the Cosmic God it’s not one secluded alone to the Christian scriptures and writings, but His creation and the laws resonate with His acts. The reality is that humankind is unable to escape the worship of God because our mere existence serves as such proof of worship. Merely, within our will, we can continue to perfect the worship.
Lovely Hell
Uncommon to the common understanding of hell as a literal place of fire and perdition, there is a third position often forgotten among Apostolic Christians. God’s love is represented as the great fire of purification. The burning bush, the cleansing of the prophet’s lips, and the elevation of Ezekiel towards heaven are all stories that engage such fire. The matter is that hell is neither the separation of God nor its eternal, but such consequences only exist within the will of mankind. Thus, the souls of hell are souls in which wonder and the love of beauty were replaced by authentic hate and discard of their humanity. The embracing of such two categories of ideas thus engulfed in the fall of our inner essence same as Lucifer. All those that are fallen are an extension of Satan. Yet, the saved and the fallen inhabit the same place, both are in the afterlife submersed by God’s love. The fallen however have chosen to negate God’s love which is reflected upon flames of eternal torture. The saved experience these flames as a matter of the beginning of the eternal union of God and thus, such love prepares mankind towards paradise. It is to denote that heaven and paradise are not the same places. Heaven, it’s simply a state of the soul being closer to God’s love without the ability to sin. Paradise involves the resurrected body uniting with the soul. It is in this that Christ became the first man (Him being the God-man) with a glorified human body as well. Men are thus through love following Christ and will eventually become the men-gods in which our bodies will be glorified (without us possessing a Divine character in our souls as God does).
It is then that it should not amaze the audience that such beliefs even played a key role among writers such Aquinas. St Thomas in his good writings explained that purgatory was one of the sections of hell. The reality’s that purgatory it’s an extension of catharsis upon the heavenly realm to explain those that will be engaged with the fire of God and eventually permit their will to accept God’s love and might. It is then by the hope that all men should be saved. Of course, the degree to which we can consider such salvation will be limited to the will of each of us. We are saved in the community by the graces of God which Christ brings towards us through the incarnation. Such nevertheless does not affect a change to the ontological will of men. Each man must express the wonder of truth and follow within the best of their ability towards the perfected state. Thus, in the Christian mind, the Church serves as the highest of all beacons on Earth that guide humanity towards the perfected State. Such shouldn’t amaze us, both a swimmer and a boat can cross the oceans, yet one way it’s a higher way than the other one. The church as the ark of salvation gives access to humanity to a sacramental life. Such life acts as lifeboats that allow us to state afloat amidst our exoduses. It is then that in Christ alone we achieve salvation through the ultimate act of Love.
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