The Soul, Being, and the Grave
A confession only of certain realities
What is worthy of the name soul? What is the soul? The immaterial substrate?
After much study, I don’t know what I believe about the soul, nor do I know what the soul is.
The metaphysics of the soul are to me, indeed, impossible to discern with confidence or certainty…at least at this time…but the relationship…is not impossible to discern…
The relationship is not impossible to grasp, for you have made yourself graspable by me oh God, in the way of your divine embrace -
Because of the love made manifest in your incarnation, and the creation which was just a preamble of what you would do in the earth oh Jesus Christ King of Kings.
You are flesh and bone and so I, oh God, can lay eyes on you.
You are blood and water, so I can kneel before you, and pour out my life, like oil, like sweet perfume.
You entered into death, and so I can live in you, and you in me, Spirit of all majesty.
Is it that the soul is the form of the body and I am found within? And this after death persists? Or is it that you oh infinite God, somehow, in your divine mystery hold my face even as some say I embrace the grave?
For I embrace no grave, when I pass from life to life. This is a facade. This is fantasy. This is imaginary and not real. What happens in the world of the actual is that I pass into no death. I change from no place, but I remain in the love, and the vision, and the embrace of God.
For eternal life is now in you, Christ Jesus. Through your faithfulness to me, this has been achieved. And indeed as you have promised me, through my faith in you this has been actualized. And it works in me, to make me alive, it is not dead.
I may not yet know, or understand, or have the capacity to fathom the immaterial and immortal and spiritual aspect in man, but I rest in you. May the pursuit of one kind of knowledge, for now, cease…for the end of all knowledge is the mystery of your divine embrace. It is enough.
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For my reader,
I share these things because I want the very best life for you;
the very best life in Christ.
This is my prayer
and these;
these are my Confessions.