REVELATION IS NON-DELUSION AND LIFE

If you have been taught to see Christianity as a moral project, you have not been taught the Kingdom of God. Righteousness is the result of union with God. Not the passport to it. Branches and fruit are the effect of our union with Christ.
DISTORTED MIND
These names were prominent in the media some time back We should not imagine that the opinions of Israel Folau and Margaret Court are isolated examples of Christian thought. They are examples of fundamentalism and moralism. The great stain on the witness of much of the church is that it that it is sometimes a Christian version of the knowledge of good and evil. Christianity, itself can be a legalism and an idol of cunning subtly.
Gregory Boyd writes, “To a large degree we have preached our own version of the knowledge of good and evil as though it were the message of salvation.”
SELF MADE GRACE
Should we live out a Christian morality as a ‘self-made grace’ we can be assured that we will choose a very limited ‘righteousness’ and often seize on a principle or two that requires little effort on our part - often an iconic behaviour precious to our denomination. Precious because we have largely been socialised (brain-washed) into giving it more significance than God does. In His view the worst thing (most immoral) things we can do is to not to regard Him as our life.
INCLUDED IN GOD
To be sure, we do become better persons as a result of being drawn into Christs life – which is actually not being drawn into a moral system but His drawing us into fellowship with the Himself and the trinity. But even then God’s obsession is not controlling us and making us conform. His passion is to enjoy our company and share Himself with us in the spirit of oneness. Thus, we participate in God’s infinite life. This is the kind of living that Jesus called spirit and life.
Moralism is the culture of the letter that kills, which means that parts of what we call the Body are a dead body. It disappointing to see people active mission and dead in their spirit. It shortchanges God and us.
GOD IN YOU
The love of God is revealed in the presentation of Himself as our life in the person of Jesus Christ. Christ’s revelation multiplies life.
Moralism is a New Testament version of the law that has no validity in post cross life. Jesus has replaced all representations of the law with Himself. Christ and not moralism is our life. ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’ means that in all things and in all ways Christ is our life as Paul declares. This is the incarnation of Christ in you LIVED. The eucharist means that we become His life as Jill, George and Rufus.
TRINITY IN YOU
This Christ-life is the inheritance that Jesus bequeathed to us in the agency of the incarnation. The Kingdom of God as distinct from the kingdom of good and evil is about being, belonging and being alive with spirit and life as sons/daughters in God’s likeness. When Jesus says, ‘I am the way’, when Paul speaks of ‘Christ our life’ and John talks of ‘Christ come in our flesh’ they are all talking about the joining of human beings to the being of God – of being woven into the trinity. This is the undoing of the separation wrought by Adam and the doing of the oneness with God wrought by Jesus Christ. In a genuine gospel you become the expression of God as daughters and sons.
ONENESS IS THE WAY
Oneness is the state of being we have chosen to emphasize in these posts because oneness is what Christ has achieved for us in our state of union with God. Oneness has been advanced and taught by the mystics because in oneness God is revealed to us as God is. We come to know ourselves in our sonship and we possess the ability to live in oneness with other human beings.
SEPARATIST CHAOS
The current divisiveness seen in racism and left/right division are the direct result of the world’s living without Christ and the Christian penchant of living in Christianity instead of in oneness with God – a oneness that is already ours.
TRINITY IN US AND WITH US
Gregory Boyd asserts correctly that, “The loving oneness of the church is to reflect the loving oneness of the Trinity. Indeed, the loving oneness of the church is to participate in the loving oneness of the Trinity: “As you . . . are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us.” As we participate in God’s loving oneness, we replicate this loving oneness among ourselves. And as we replicate this loving oneness, the world sees and believes that Jesus Christ is sent from the Father. The world knows the reality of the triune God because they encounter the love of the triune God in us.” So what are we living from? Oneness with God or oneness with Christianity?
THE CROSSTIAN WAY
The core of the gospel of the Kingdom is that God is honourable and loving; that God has drawn us into Himself through Jesus Christ and that as a result we are one with God and sons/daughters in spirit and in truth. Our salvation in Christ; our new wineskin has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with the accomplishment of the cross – oneness with God. This oneness is sourced and modelled in the trinity. It is expressed as Christ come in our flesh.
PATTERN OF LIFE
Thomas Torrance writes, “I myself like to think of the doctrine of the Trinity as the ultimate ground of theological knowledge of God, the basic grammar of theology, for it is there that we find our knowledge of God reposing upon the final Reality of God himself, grounded in the ultimate relations intrinsic to God’s own being, which govern and control all true knowledge of him from beginning to end” — The Ground and Grammar of Theology, 158-9.
We are not Godly when a figment of the law’s abstractions. We are Godly when we are the manifestation of Christ by the Spirit in the everyday. The ‘RELATIONS OF GOD’S OWN BEING’ are the relations that pertain between us and God.
JOINED IN JESUS
Far from the law being indicative of God’s character, The Christ is the revelation of God’s character. The trinity is the living pattern of our union with God. The trinity is the nature of God and the key to understanding our belonging in Him. In Christ we participate in this life because the Jesus who is one of us is also the son of God who is part of the trinity. We are joined to God, to life and to each other in Jesus Christ.
CENTRALITY
Paul Molnar writes, “The doctrine of the Trinity is the central doctrine around which all other Christian doctrines gravitate and become comprehensible […] Unless theology begins from a center in God himself and unless it is controlled by the reality of God himself throughout, it becomes little more than mythology, or the projection of our human wishes based on experience on to reality, resulting in a fantasy and not perception of reality.” Some ‘gospels’ are no more than a fantasy or a latter day Gnosticism. We are not compelled to live in delusion when Christ’s Truth is in plain sight.
PERNICIOUS DISTORTION
Given that the trinity is God and that the relations of the trinity are our relations with God in Christ, a theology of the law as a key issue of salvation dynamics can be seen as the fatuous assumption that it is. Legalism attracts the religious because doing the right and being rewarded for it is basic to self-interest, to our humanity and the myths we have absorbed since we were children.
Little wonder that people of intelligence and education have attached themselves to legalistic gospels that undo the cross and smother the incarnation because it seems intuitive, intelligent and right. Thus,  gospels founded on the principles of the knowledge of good and evil insert themselves in Christian culture as a stronghold of paralysis and inertia.
POVERTY STRICKEN BELIEF
Many people join legalistic communities as a result of Bible studies that string together scriptures that have no genuine connection. Strung in a way that negates our ‘being’ in God and replaces this with an -  extended beyond the time  - version of the fall and its pedagogy.
TRUNCATED TEACHING
There is no light in the epistemology that grows from the law because the law was a stop-gap function of the tree of dead knowledge. As such it belongs to separation from God and is separation from God. SEPARATION that has since been UNDONE by the ATONEMENT. So why live in this mindset and create a false Christ, false gospel and false you out of a delusion? Could it be that the gospel we have been raised in, is a lie?
ISSUE OF LIFE
With sharp perception Stephen Morrison writes, “Torrance carefully develops the doctrine of the Trinity as the ultimate ground and basic grammar of all theological knowledge. With an emphasis on the doctrine of perichoresis, Torrance develops an “onto-relational” concept of personhood.” This is so true. The relationship between each member of the trinity - union without loss of individuality, but personhood enhanced – is the relationship that we have been drawn into and which has entered us in the incarnation. We have this kind of relationship with God in Jesus. This is the pearl of great price.
We are one with God and part of His being. Hidden in Christ, we are one with God. One with Father, we are maturing  sons in the intimacy and nurture that is ours in the Spirit of sonship. We are in God and becoming our true selves.
(1)     Quote in Morrison, Stephen D.. T. F. Torrance in Plain English (Plain English Series Book 2) (pp. 93-94). Beloved Publishing, LLC. Kindle Edition.
(2)     (p. 94). Beloved Publishing, LLC. Kindle Edition.
 (3) Ibid.