Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Work of The Spirit

In traditional Christian theology a foundational doctrine of soteriology is the doctrine of the work of the Spirit.  This is the teaching that the Spirit of God must prepare the soul before hand for regeneration.  In the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah it is evident that it is not first and foremost the individual that the Spirit of God prepares but Adam as a whole.


Just as each child born is first distinguished by what they are before any solid distinction of individual personality, who they are, is formed, so it is also with the rebirth of the soul.  Each person is first distinguished by their corporate aspect, that is to say, what they are, not who they are.  Each person in their corporate aspect has a conscience about what they are as a human being, irregardless of their distinction as an individual.  When people form collective strands of consciousness when they join in groups the corporate aspect of the individual is reinforced.  It is with that corporate aspect of the individual that the Spirit first works.


For example Adam/Humanity is conditioned to fear the righteousness and holiness of The Creator and so out of this fear not to blaspheme God or worship as God what is made by God.  Such fear is not necessarily eternal, but it is a proper conditioning of condemned Adam for the corporate repentance in each individual's corporate conscience, the proper conditioning for redemption - not a redemption of one isolted gentile at a time, as Chritianity has traditionally taught, but in Truth the redemption of Adam.