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So, again then, back to my previous question...
Who is it that the prophesied Savior, and Messiah came to save?
And, how does predestination and "the Elect" fit in?
Is it the present and temporary individual in the illusory material world?
Or, is it the greater personage involving the spirit and angelic, who may be manifesting succesive incarnations in time; Who's actual origin and situation is apart from time?
Who is the individual who is "lost", in actuality? The evolved organic individual in time? Or, the soul apart from time? This goes along with the question of whether or not the fall of Adam and Eve is to be equated with the fall of the angelic, depicted in Isaiah 14, and Ezekiel 28 in the scriptures. And also, apparently, in Revelation 12.
We are to understand, even in science, that there is really no beginning and no ending, which involves time.
One could see that the Savior came from where we are sourced originally, apart from time... and involving the angelic.
(See Revelation chapter 12, regarding the tail of the devil, and the stars.)
One can see that the purpose of Jesus ministry and atoning work has to do with bringing peace, joy, and assurance to the "lost" in the temporary and illusory world.
So, who is it who is lost, and redeemed?
The organic individual, in time? Or the greater aspect of the person, apart from time?
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"I believe there are two sides to the phenomena known as death. This side where we live, and the other side, where we shall continue to live.
Eternity does not start with death.
We are in eternity now." - Norman Vincent Peale
"There is no place in this new kind of physics for both the field and matter, for the field is the only reality." - A. Einstein
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