CHAPTER 11: THE PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GOSPEL
We are now in a situation to complete our transformation of the common understanding of the Gospel, to the proper understanding of the Gospel.
- In the beginning God created the universe.
- Everything in the creation was good, including humanity.
- God is love. God is perfectly just (righteous) in that He always works perfectly in accordance with His loving nature.
- The creation was a manifestation of His love.
- In order to try to keep Adam from great harm, God commanded (warned) Adam not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- Adam, however, did partake from this Tree.
- This Tree changed Adam's perception from a unity of the glorious goodness of life, making him know good and evil. It made him aware of both what was and was not. What was (created), was good. What was not (uncreated), was evil.
- God set immediately to try to heal his poisoned children, preventing them from eating from the Tree of Life, which would have immortalized their pain. Their pain was to be only temporal, guiding them back to the paths of goodness.
- In his goodness and love God saw to it that all suffering and evil would be limited and temporal. All evil, all sin, will die.
- Though God was willing to forgive Adam's transgression, Adam sought to hide from God. Adam did not want fellowship with the creator.
- Therefore, all Adam had to do was repent, turn from his sinful ways, and return to the goodness that was intended. Unfortunately, in his fallen condition, he had no way to do this. He simply could not heal himself. Clinging to his delusions and filth, man was lost.
- However, while humanity wandered strugglingly, God set out to create a surefire cure for man's spiritual sickness.
- God began to create the antidote for Adams poison.
- He did this through Jesus Christ.
- He needed a pathway to show humanity the problem of ego and how to overcome it.
- In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus died to his small self, died to his human will, and was reborn to his perfect, divine will. His ego died.
- So God, through this suffering, showed us all that we too must die to ourselves.
- Through what he suffered Jesus became perfect.
- Christ embodied all the sins of the world. And through his death all sins can now be atoned.
- God was punishing nothing. He was providing a means for health and salvation to be given to everyone.
- Having died to ego and self, Jesus fixed the problem which began in Eden.
- Jesus was then resurrected.
- He now stands as a perfect religious subject and object, ready to help all people who will unite with him in his death and his resurrection. To drink deeply of his antidote and return to the pure, perfect, egoless state.
- Grace is the all-consuming truth. God is all good and the entire universe is a gift of Him. As our minds become transformed we recognize this and see God's hand as being the only active agent in the universe.
- Our only personal hope for everlasting life then is to drink of Jesus' antidote. To have our minds transformed and stop thinking of the world as evil, to stop thinking in an evil way and stop seeing ourselves as sinners. Our hope lies in tapping into the power which Jesus made available to all people.
- Having overcome ego, having died to ourselves, we too dance in the glorious resurrected body made available to all people. We now recognize that we do have that fellowship with God. Which he has always wanted us to have.
- We are now free to partake from the Tree of Everlasting Life.
- This is the good news. This is truly the Gospel.
CONCLUSION
I stated many pages ago that the good news is much better then any of us can conceive. Hopefully, the case has been made.
We have seen that:
 | God is not despotically trying to punish his children for something He knew they would do. |
| He was trying to warn them away from something that could hurt them. |
| God was not trying to vent His wrath upon His holy and good son, but that His holy and good son voluntarily laid down his lower life, turned from the realm of ego and the realm of false knowledge of good and evil, to return to knowledge only of life, only of goodness. |
| This power is available to all human beings. |
| We are all able to follow the same pathway that Jesus followed. |
| He is not just calling us, but empowering us to make the journey. |
| All people are right now saved, though most do not know this, and continue to live in the pain of ego. |
| What must happen is that we must proclaim the word so that they may hear the word, so that they may understand the goodness and glory which is forever. |
We have seen that the good news is so very, very good. In the Garden of Eden, mankind stopped looking at the perfect glory of God's creation and started looking at himself. Through Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane we gain power to stop looking at ourselves and return to the knowledge of life. Beyond good and evil, beyond duality. Delighting only in the all-consuming presence of God.
Gloria-hallelujah!
