Blech. Is it weird that I like snow more than rain?
Well, I can’t say I’m excited to be entering what I call the “mush” season of the year: the chilly rain and sloppy mud of early spring. But after a very robust winter with plenty of snow and cold, it’s time to return to something refreshing!
So I’m (hopefully) going to do that here too. It’s been a long while since I focused this blog specifically on the subject matter of my free Healing Hereafter book series. Perhaps it’s time to do that again…but in a light refreshing way! Over the next few months, we’ll pepper these blog posts with chapter summaries from each booklet. They were especially written to give you a less-than-five-minute appetizer of what that chapter explores more deeply.
Keep in mind that these “Quick Reads” aren’t meant to extensively prove anything, just intrigue more interest concerning nearly all the questions and conclusions found in the opening chapters of Booklet 2. Please explore the Full Version of this booklet for a more thorough discussion and extensive biblical and scholarly evidence supporting what’s below. And I hope it’s not sleeting where you are!
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Booklet 2: I Love It When a Plan Comes Together!
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Chapter 1
The foundation of our framework of the biblical hereafter is who the Christian God is and why that determines everything else, so we begin with him. We explore how God reveals himself to humans as a trinity; a community of three entities that each optimally represent various aspects of who he is in ways that humans can understand.
This explains why God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit are all necessary to make sense of God to humans and to allow God to exact his plan among us. We also learn how God’s omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence result in his nature—his set of ideals—and why this nature never changes.
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Chapter 2
It is this set of ideals that leads God to specifically create humans as the only physical creatures made in God’s image. This launches a discussion on what most significantly sets humans apart from all other living things on earth, and we conclude that it is a free-willed consciousness. A biblical, biological, historical, and practical assessment of animal and human behavior supports a distinctly human creativity and ambition.
As this has been scientifically demonstrated to be uniquely human—yet is also scientifically unexplainable—we propose that such original tenacity arises not from our brains, but from our spirits, an eternal component of humans not present in other earthly organisms. The biblical and logical conclusion is that an eternal, free-willed God created humans in his image by giving them an everlasting spirit that bestows truly free will.
Questions? Doubts? Concerns? Revelations?
Good, I had all of those too! Enjoy a more thorough treatment of this subject matter in the complete version of Booklet 2, free and easy here.
