Theological Mystery #2: Re-establishing the Unity of Oneness
BOOK III: The Enigmatic Mystery – Consideration #189
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Tuesday May 20, 2025
“Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.”
– Romans 5:18-19
PREFACE
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According to the Biblical narrative, sin is not God’s idea. Sin is the natural result of duality. Duality divides and separates things from other things, including God. Sin is a state of separation from God, or separation from God’s will and intention. Once separated from God’s intention, human beings are left to make choices and decisions on their own.
Decisions and choices made out of weakness, selfishness and fear tend to lead human beings further from God’s intention. Decisions and choices made out of strength, empathy, and compassion tend to lead human beings closer to God’s intention. Once unlocking the door of duality, it becomes more and more difficult to obtain “at oneness” or “atonement” with God.
“God begins by trying to work with human beings who are seeking atonement.”
Theologically, the first step in atonement is recognizing your sin, or separation from God, which is the source of all selfish desire. One must acknowledge their separateness from God and express a commitment to atone, or become one again. This involves giving up individual will and serving God’s will.
In the Biblical narrative, God begins by trying to work with human beings who are seeking atonement. People who recognize evil as evil and are attempting to reconnect with God’s will. God calls these people “Righteous.” However, such human beings are extremely difficult to find, and their Righteousness is relative to other human beings at the time. After Mankind’s fall from grace, most people enthusiastically embraced the world of duality, causing Mankind to fall deeper and deeper into separation, sin and wickedness.
CONSIDERATION #189 – Re-establishing Oneness
The first murder in the Bible is committed by Adam’s son Cain. Cain becomes jealous of his brother, Able, because God favored Able’s sacrifice over his. Cain murders his brother because he recognizes the difference between God’s favorable reaction to Able’s sacrifice compared to God’s less than favorable reaction to his sacrifice, a direct result of dualistic thinking. This recognition leads to jealousy; which leads to anger; which leads to murder. “The wages of sin is death.”
The Bible follows the decedents of Adam all the way to Noah, which by that time had become so wicked God decides to destroy everything and start over. However, God considers Noah to be a Righteous man.
“The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, ‘I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground – for I regret that I have made them.’ But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.”
Genesis 6:5-8
God destroys the earth with a massive flood and constant rain for forty days and forty nights. When the flood waters recede, Noah and his family are chosen to re-populate the earth. God makes his first covenant with Noah; promising never to destroy the earth with a flood again.
“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you… Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9:9-11
Although God keeps his covenant with Noah and never destroys the entire earth again, His anger over human sin and wickedness continues to challenge His patience; often resulting in His wrath. God had become disappointed in the beings he had once created in His own image, now corrupting the earth and themselves in the duality of sin.
Eventually, a descendent of Noah’s, called Abram, would become the mechanism for the redemption God was looking for. Abram recognized the nature of evil and was seeking a relationship with God in order to move more toward the good. Abram was a man truly seeking righteousness, and atonement.
In the Bible, the story of God is composed of three acts. In act one, God makes a new covenant with a man we now call Abraham.
POSTSCRIPT
Theologically, the recognition of sin is the first step in atonement. Abram does not seek righteousness through himself; he seeks righteousness through God. Seeing possibility and potential in Abram, God makes a covenant with him that if he acknowledges Him as the one and only True God and follows His commands, he will make Abram the leader of a great nation with decedents numbering more than the stars in heaven.
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
– Genesis 12:2-3
Abram agrees to the deal and becomes the patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In the Christian tradition this represents the first turning point of the Biblical plot. God’s covenant with Abram sets God’s new plan for redemption into motion, starting with moving the “chosen people” more toward Righteousness.
“God gives Abram, now Abraham, the basic necessary requirements for obtaining Righteousness…”
The first step in moving away from evil is to move closer toward God. This means the most important aspect of Righteousness involves following God’s intent. Therefore, God gives Abram, now Abraham, the basic necessary requirements for obtaining Righteousness which was to be practiced by him and his descendants in order to become “God’s chosen” people. This is in a sense more of a curse than a blessing.
These were, the “best” people God could find to work with at the time, therefore they were chosen as the people who would shoulder the heavy burden and responsibility of bringing goodness, or righteousness, back to the earth. God’s covenant with Abraham is the beginning of that very long journey of atonement between God and Man.
“God’s first order of Righteousness is to seek ‘Oneness’ again…”
The “chosen people” would recognize and honor The Lord as “One.” God is the “One” and “Only” God of His people. Becoming “one” with this “Oneness,” or “Unity,” is the essence of Righteousness. Therefore, God’s first order of Righteousness is to seek “Oneness” again, to put “at oneness” ahead of everything else; to take the first step away from duality back to Unity through atonement. This will eventually become the First Commandment.
Ironically, this also involves dividing and separating the chosen people from the non-chosen people, the Gentiles. Because, unlike the Gentiles, the chosen people would now be responsible for following God’s will and intent. The empirical recognition of this rational covenant was symbolized through circumcision. This would forever “mark” God’s chosen people from all other people. They would become the focus of God’s will and intention in the physical world of duality. The only way out of the duality called sin was through atonement, or “at-one-ment.” However, the fruit of duality was empirically tangible, whereas the mystery of atonement was not.
“…separation from God, or Oneness, was the source of sin.”
Abraham, and his decedents, would recognize their sins and acknowledge God as the source of Righteousness, understanding that separation from God, or Oneness with God, was the source of sin. Abraham made a covenant with God because he believed God. Faith in God becomes the cornerstone of Righteousness; following God’s will and intent becomes its mortar. The “chosen people” become the bricks of Righteousness made strong by the fire of discipline and endurance. God would "bake" his chosen people in the oven of slavery for generations before putting an even greater burden upon them; The Law.
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