SOMA-PSYCHE-PNEUMA

Out of the exclusive audience intended for my Orgasm Spasms series, instead of finishing in threefold as anticipated, I decided to single you out. I have enjoyed our frequent conversations exchanging ideas with the other in poised manner. No personal jabs are thrown and most impressively, you’re not angry with me for being a Christian as many others have whined, making conversations near impossible to have. No, you’re not quite atheist, because as an atheist companion of mine once said, “You’re not a real atheist if you’re mad at God for not existing”. You’re not quite postmodernist, as you are not foolish enough to create for yourself a fairytale of a land far, far away where comfort is in the eye of the heterodox. No, you are a naturalist. And I like you...a lot. You’re damn near brilliant. Ooops! Did I say “damn”? Are you sure there are no hidden PhD’s in your back pocket?

As per our conversation earlier, the tri-part being of God is complex. But, so is the tri-part being of man. May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I find solace in understanding the complexities of one God in three through the nature of the human being: Spirit, Soul and Body. Science has agreed that man is made of parts. Some argue just a soul and body and some will relinquish to the idea of there being a spirit too. Now, we know that the soul inhabits the mind, will and emotions. And the body...well, the body is just the body: a place for the spirit and the soul to exist. The spirit is complex, but we’re all aware that upon death, the body evaporates and the spirit, which inhabits our breathing and our living, and the soul go on. Our soul is not responsible for our breathing and our living. Our spirit man is primary because it is our foremost akin to God. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. So, if God is in fact, a spirit, and we were made in that image, then our spirit man is the most like Him. Let’s not forget that God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and that “Us” included the Son and the Holy Sprit. Therefore, our spirit, soul and body makeup is a direct reflection of them.

Friend, you’ve expressed to me time and time again, “I have no problems with Jesus. I understand why he was here and all of the things he did. My qualm is with God”. And I say that I think it rather interesting that you don’t have a problem with the Son, but you have a problem with the Father. I have diagnosed your case many times before. You have a problem with all fathers, and any type gender thrust. Hence, it is of no surprise of your vendetta against God the Father. Your case, as unique and independently thinking as you consider yourself, is typical. And your symptoms usually include;
a) rejection of God the Father
b) acceptance of Jesus’ message of hope and love
Let me briefly respond to “b”. Often time extremists, such as yourself, are so over analytical of life and its elements and so critical of Christianity, that when it comes to the substance of Jesus’ message, they become passive. Why is that? They take about 1/3 of His message and then throw it in the Christians face and play their best hand of what I call, the judgment card. Now is not the time to be passive. Let’s examine the totality of His message. To set those captive free. To expose darkness through the existence of light. And who are these captive and what is this darkness? Stop to ask yourself this as you continue to decree love and reception, because it is by those means that the latter part of His message has and will continue to be accomplished. Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

So I consider WWJD and what I would do is what Jesus would do. I would dine with you and give you a place to lay your head. What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? I would go to the ends of the earth with you or for you, because I love you with such passion and desperation. If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? I would plead with God for your life in spite of your constant rejection and persecution towards us and weep for you in my garden in the early hours of the morning. They hated Me without a cause. I would devote my life to freeing you from slavery even if you crusade against me to stay. To heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives...recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed. All in the name of love, I would opt crucifixion for your salvation. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.