Towards a Scripturally Derived Metaphysic (My New Book Manuscript + Thesis)

From 'Logos and Man' a preliminary introduction.

A preliminary and rough (short) draft of my introduction of what will be ‘Logos and Man.’ Best regards,

“He might make you know that man shall † not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.” Deuteronomy 8:3

Nelson, Thomas. NKJV, Holy Bible (p. 776). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

“It is written, † ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds  from the mouth of God.’ ”  Mathew 4:4

Nelson, Thomas. NKJV, Holy Bible (p. 3860). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Why has Metaphysics dispelled the mystery of The embodied Word? Christ in the Flesh.

And does metaphysic have to only remain of Philosophy? Why can’t we have a metaphysic of our church and of a Truthful and Clear understanding of our Lord, the Gospel, and the New Covenant we live of in worshipping our God.

We can make a programmic statements as Christians that spells out the World to our belief, The Gospel in fourfold effect: 1. Cruciform Theocracy; 2. Heaven to Earth Restoration of Spacetime Order; 3. Unification of Kingdom with Cross; and 4. Anticipation of Resurrection, New Jerusalem, and Life After Life After Death; with this inevitably following from the Victory of Christ on the Cross, after Resurrection.

We can partition reality into any One or the Many that we choose. Trying to comport the parts with our faith.

Our in-recognition of the Truth, however, is that Metaphysic is relational—a personal God into our real lives. Therefore it has two Persons. You and the Lord. The rest is of the glory of God’s Kingdom. But first this relationship must secure devotion. And the venture of God’s love is your very Faith.

We can call the Spirit by other names both worldly and springing from our imagination. But it is still the Holy Ghost of the Triune God, not to be blasphemed and living in the midst of the believers.

In relation to Christ we are by extension in relation to the rest of the body of believers but also responsible to proclaim the Gospel in steadfast resolve in order that nonbelievers might be converted by us as the City in Light on a Hill.

So that, all in all, we first have relation in Christ, then to God the Father ‘Abba’ of Trinity, and the Holy Ghost. This works in us such that We are together in the Body of Christ, Fellow Children of God the Father, and filled through with the Spirit that inhabits us all collectively and individually. So, for each of us, there is three one-to-one relationships (of and to the Trinity) then the multitudinous relations to believers and non-believers with the former taking on proportions of Christian love in abundance.

Now the Logos can be found at the top of the mountain, but the point is to distribute it down to the Israelites (now the Nations of the Earth) such that they can live in worshipping the One true God. In the hearing of the Old Covenant, believers had the knowledge of right action. Yet Sin rose up to meet the law and through the law was ubiquitous, the wickedness of Man’s heart rebelled against God’s law such that no sacrifice was worthy for atonement.

God had a plan to deliver men from this sin which he sees as a blight growing amongst those meant to be stewards of his Creation. The One who was with God the Father in the beginning, the Word (Logos), Christ in spirit would be made flesh and sacrifice himself for the Sin of Man such that the sins could all alike and together be forgiven at once, and for all time.

There were World-shaking forces at play here as death had been introduced with disobedience and never to be conquered by man alone. Rather the beginner of the Heavens and the Earth would share the enfleshed life of man such that he could suffer the fate of death. Hypostasis (the Divine in Him) would lead to his Resurrection and example, or better put, proof that Death was defeated for all time.

The terms of the New Covenant are faith and faith alone, excited by a simple confession in front of a congregation. The Yoke is light. It may seems deceptively simple but alas it is not. As 1 John says you will know Saved Souls by their confession ‘that Christ is Risen.’ It really does not succumb to posturing or impostures —as by design by the Triune God that such an admission never comes quite cheaply by human standards.

So how is the Logos delivered into the Hearts of Man? It must be understood that Logos into the Hearts of Men is by, of, in, fully and ultimately mediated by Jesus himself. That is, Logos alive in the heart is mediated by your personal relationship to Christ and at that the way to open lines of communication is via daily prayer. So that in your prayer you are theologizing and in theologizing you are prayerful. This I believe in my own life and in yours, will open up the Graces and Gifts bestowed on you if only you would ask God through Christ of the things you see as necessary - how much more will this be added unto you?

Once the Logos is alive in your heart, and make no mistake it is Christ in your Heart, you will experience a renewal of the mind and spirit. Trials keep coming but now you have a worthy vessel to weather the storms. Words will come into stream of consciousness which you did not produce; you can help in your task by ensuring worship to God and good works to spring forth Good new creation.

Why has metaphysics neglected this most Christian of structures, movement, and music?

Why must ologies (logics) be set against the Truth as frustrating as the disobedience in the Garden is the disobedience and idolatry of the Enlightenment - the parallels are striking. We wish to have Gnosis akin to God; the 20th Century is the Murderous Caine against his, ‘our,’ brothers.

Logos is relational, primordial, and alighted from on high. Jesus speaks to each person, was there at the beginning and comes down from the heavens and mountain top in due course. It is of a Spiritual nature that Man comes to imbibe his share of the logoi, and it is a current which is cut off outside the New Covenant but inside of the Covenant it flows richly, purely. This brings to point the issue of where the dark logos/logoi comes from and this will be spoken of in the thrust of work to come, after the Thesis here.

The Thesis of the book is that the Christian Metaphysic is not of philosophic parts (One-Many, Tripartite Soul, or Dualism of Nature), it is that Man lives in the Kingdom of God - God the Creator, separate from, not a part of the World; Being is of a ‘in’ procession behind Christ with a through line, or Fishermans line if you like pulling him on the march to ascension (this is Telos and Predestination). And further logos/logoi flows (as the flowing Grace) through this procession and the individuals in it directly mediated be He who is I AM, the Ancient of Days, the Word, and who sits on the Throne in Heaven, and is the Head of this Body of Christ, the Head of the Procession. Could it be this Odyssey leads to a Life After Death for all of those in the Book of Life, in the New Covenant; where a Gleaming Birth of the New Jerusalem is our Home and ours new bodies dressed in white cloth.

More to come