Day 33: Living Daily in Reality: Cosmic Resurrection
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The only credible explanation of the reality in which we actually live is
that given by the human being, Jesus of Nazareth in the first century of
our era. This was officially accepted in the Roman Empire in 325 A.D. and
has since been the basis of thinking in the Western world.

Although its popular presentation in Christendom has twisted it into
various self-interested religions, its central tenet is that you and I
were made as part of his Son by a loving Father who foresaw everything we
would do. Because of the integrity of his own nature he therefore
experienced within himself every act and word and thought you have ever
had; but he mercifully remade you and the world itself in a cosmic death
and resurrection that were both expressed in his Son’s death and
resurrection in 29 A.D..

So there are two worlds (parallel universes as the quantum physicists
call them) – in which we can choose to live – this visible world and the invisible
world of the cosmic resurrection which is permanent. Just as the
relativity of time and space implies that our Creator and his worlds
exist in one eternal now, so we can choose to live in the permanent
reality of the invisible world or the temporary “unrealityâ€(cid:157) of this
visible world around us. We can rejoice or fret.

Why did our Creator do all this?  Out of love – love for his son
and a desire that you and I would enjoy that too by our own free
choice.  This is why he has gone to all this trouble and endured such
agony – so that we could choose to reject him if we preferred
nothingness or acquiesce in his loving plans for our happiness. Â

Thus he gives us this present experience of a world apart from him and
his ways; an opportunity to know what he is like in contrast to what
nothingness is like.  This is why we see two threads running through
the life of the world – one that is full of evidences of his kindliness
and the invisible renewed world in the exquisite delicacy of a flower
surviving in a rubbish dump or an act of kindness in the cruelty of
war.  The other thread, of course, is evident in the harshness of our
society and the rampant dishonesty that governs so much of our national
and international life.  Â

As we recoil and reject the self-assertion and hatred that our maker
experienced in his own temporal son as Jesus of Nazareth and that his own
eternal son experienced when we were first created in him before the
world was made, we make our own choice.  His love thus enables us to
see what a Godless life is like here and what a Godly life is like in
Him.  His son’s death and resurrection in Palestine in 29 A.D.
expresses the cosmic death and resurrection that occurred in Him in the
split-second of eternity when He faced in his own heart the nothingness

that is the only alternative to Him.  Only that cosmic death and
resurrection could justify for Him his forbearance to us when we rejected
his will.  Only if he faced in himself through his son the utter
nothingness of life outside himself, could our Maker forgive and remake
us and the world according to his will.

So even now there exists a new world which is the result of a cosmic
resurrection that has taken place in the eternal present of the Bible and
quantum physics.  And it is possible to experience some of its power
and vitality here in time.