Repentance, the traditional view is “you must” or else!

Scary: Yes, for the uneducated in knowledge and understanding in the word of God.

To really get a handle on salvation and understand what it really means, one has to have an understanding of what God’s intended purpose for mankind was.

First creation of God was to make a vessel in His image, meaning to think and act like Him.
That He accomplished, in creating Adam, a living soul.

However that was an inherent problem. There can be only but one God!

To exist other than the one God means death to the other lesser god.

Hence, death came to our spirits via the fruits of knowledge.

The day we ate, our eyes were open and we became as gods, knowing both good and evil.

From that dead spirit is what salvation is about!

First, we didn’t have a choice in the matter, for knowledge we must all partake of.

Second, salvation from it is a matter of choice to the extent that we can become knowledgeable, but otherwise, salvation is a gift granted to all souls born in the flesh.

Jesus was that hope and is that hope to all mankind, for God’s second creation was to liberate the first creation by the second.

The whole vision, picture of the bible and it’s message is that God the creator created, redeemed His creation solely on His own will and has told us about it.

His gift to us? Life!

So regardless of what experience mankind has on this earth, life is granted now, or as an end result.

The now part is reaching out for the fruit of the tree of Life while yet in the flesh.

If you gain that knowledge via the tree of Life, then you are a new creation, a new generation of souls not tainted with death.

But if one fails to reach out to the tree of life, then everything of the first creation remains the same.

Which means, that many have lived and died without ever learning in the flesh who Jesus was.
That is why Jesus had to go to the pit, to declare to those souls in prison, their liberty.

If we, who have privilege to this knowledge and fail to extend to others the knowledge of the gift which belongs to them, then we would have failed to promote the will of God.

From the seed of Christ, the promise is that they would number as the stars, giving glory to the one God, and creator of all there is, as we are the many membered body, of God in Christ by which only can we continue to exist after this life is over.

Repentance, in the old testament meant to adhere to the law or else, repentance in the new testament is, rearrange your thinking, accepting as a gift, life from God.

By so doing, Jesus finds rest in your soul, abides there as His temple, and gives direction to your daily living by convicting you of any trespasses, at the same time giving you power and strength to overcome them, but only if you will.

The power you have to choose is God given, for you and I are as gods, in His image.

Rather choose those things that belong to the heavenly realm over those things that are earthly, for the rewards are greater to them that strive, but the joy of the journey is well worth it.
For one day, when this life is over, we shall forever be with our Lord in total ecstasy!

Run well the race then as Paul states, for the rewards are good and worthy of all consideration.

Peace>>>AJ