The Community of Man - The Nuts & Bolts of the Bible Message Concept 8

Eighth Basic Concept

The strongest community of Man can only occur when all of its individuals serve the community and only serve any individual and themselves relative to the needs of that community.

Just as our body begins with the joining of two individual cells (one male and one female) any higher community of Man (a living, higher order body) begins with the joining of two individuals (one male and one female). Naturally each individual should be properly prepared for that joining, and in Genesis 1 the Seven Main Aspects of an individual are revealed--Spirit, Principle, Intellect, Soul, Life, Truth, and Love. It is also revealed that each individual has three spiritual planes or spiritual levels of existence--Cause, Expression, and Manifestation (CEM); and the Seven Main Aspects are revealed to be sub-aspects of Man's spiritual heart, soul, and mind in corresponding order to the CEM relationship. It is the heart of the individual that determines the Purpose the individual's Spirit will seek. During the spiritual growth (creative) process, it is the Spirit seeking the purpose of the heart that begins the process. Seven spiritual steps must be completed in the order given before any particular spiritual growth is complete. The completed spiritual growth then becomes a life-style that is expressed to overcome a need the individual has that is similar in nature to the one that resulted in the Seven Steps of Spiritual Growth being followed initially. Basically, we learn how to overcome a type of problem, and then use that method to overcome future problems of the same type. Yes, as we solve more and more problems that are similar in nature, we may tweak our method to accomplish our desires more effectively. As we do this our given life-style grows closer to being perfected--matures from child to adult.

Man was created for a Purpose. It is important for us to understand that Purpose, which is Christ the Omega. Of course Man can only be the body of Christ--the manifestation of Christ's heart. Therefore, the body of Christ serves who Christ is and only who Christ is--a single overall Purpose for Man. If all of Man is to have one main Purpose, then all of Man must have the same Spirit and Love for all that serves that Purpose. This is represented in the Bible by the number 12. When a joining occurs with two individuals who have a single overall purpose, their Spirit and Love aspects are the same relative to that Purpose; then the other 5 aspects of each defines a sub-purpose each has to fulfill the higher, common Purpose. Therefore, they have 2 aspects in common and 5 aspects each for a total of 12--i.e. the 12 tribes of Israel & the 12 disciples.

The common Love uniting all and producing one main Purpose should point to one very important fact. In whatever way any individual serves the common Purpose, it must be by loving the life-styles that they can express that allow them to contribute to that Purpose in the best way possible. Therefore, the individual must have followed a path that produced full understanding of all the factors resulting in the life-styles defining the Soul of the individual. Law may be a way to facilitate the growth in the eternal life-styles that contribute to the body of Christ, but eventually the individual must go beyond Law and love the eternal life-styles rather than respond according to a set of rules with no understanding of the purpose of those rules. The statement "Love can only exist through understanding" may be questioned as not being true, but any careful consideration will prove the statement as true. In doing this we will grow in a much better understanding of the nature of Love, which always relates to one or more life-styles that serve an overall purpose--not objects, individuals, or things.

Once we recognize that we live in a reality created by GOD, we must realize that all will serve and support the process of completing the Purpose for the Creation. This means that any living qualities and life-styles that have eternal value will manifest in the Physical Reality in good ways that strengthen the physical community of Man, and all other living qualities and life-styles will produce poor results in the Physical Reality or weaken the community of Man in someway. Some poor results may only be recognized after considerable time, but the results of practicing useless life-styles will eventually seriously weaken any community of Man which allows such life-styles to be practiced or accepted as okay--legitimized. Of course, we do not have to always wait for poor results to know a life-style has no useful eternal purpose if the useless life-style replaces a life-style of proven value in the community of Man. Additionally, we can ask ourselves what the community of Man would lose if the life-style was never practiced. In some cases the answer will be, “Nothing.” If so, the life-style is worthless. Now why would be want to practice or approve of anything that is worthless--or worse? Once we have thought it out this far, we can look at those life-styles that may add a little to the community of Man, but we are aware of one that can replace it and add a lot to the community of Man.

As each of us live for the strengthening of the community of Man of which we are a part, we will be learning to love the eternal life-styles that are of Christ. To do this, the community of Man we see ourselves as serving should be all the relationships of which we are a part. Any relationship of individuals becomes a living entity with a purpose. At whatever level we contribute to the community of Man, we should do our part to overcome weaknesses in that community relative to GOD's Purpose of Christ the Omega. Each of us will only be one individual in several active relationships, and we should strive to insure that the purpose of each of our relationships is a sub-purpose of GOD's Purpose. If not, we should be actively striving to change the purpose or separate ourselves completely from the relationship. We definitely should not contribute to the purpose of such a relationship.

Purposes are changed in a community of Man by the governing body (head) making laws that promote the desired results in the community. Unfortunately, evil forces or those expressing improper life-styles in the community are well aware of this fact and will attempt to legitimized their activities also. By improper laws being passed or useless life-styles being allowed to be practiced openly without condemnation, the community of Man's children are prone to accepting the practices of the evil life-styles as okay. Since evil life-styles begin small and grow through the acceptance of half-truths as Truth (masquerade as angels of light), ignorance and passiveness in the battle for legal control of any community of Man is the major contributor to its eventual uselessness in the growth of the body of Christ. Therefore, the laws created to promote the ultimate purpose must also promote the elimination of ignorance and other qualities that become the breeding ground for useless life-styles.. This also means certain weaknesses in the the community must be temporarily allowed through legal procedure during the process of eliminating ignorance and other community weakening qualities (Mark 10:3-8 on divorce); but they should not ever be legitimized as okay. What we love cannot be mandated; but, if laws are enforced under the contraints of love, then law will become a respected tutor.

At first we may only recognize weaknesses that produce almost immediate harmful consequences in the community of Man; but as we grow in our focus and determination to know the eternal qualities and life-styles of Christ, we will grow in our ability to recognize the smaller weaknesses within ourselves and all our relationships that may take years for the serious consequences to manifest. In this state, we can be confident that GOD will accept our Spirit; and we will leave this world full and complete--ready to serve in the body of Christ forever.