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       %NATURE SALVATION FULFILL LAW LEGAL LIBERATE 960714

     Down  through  history  there has  been  an  unending
conflict  between people who have contrasting  conceptions
of the nature of human salvation:

     1.  Salvation   comes  through  the  fulfillment   of
compulsive   preoccupations  with  conformity   to   laws,
commandments, proscriptions, prescriptions and taboos.

     2.  Salvation  is enjoyed by people who through  some
miracle  of   Love  are  liberated  from  the  prisons  of
compulsive preoccupations with conformity---and find  that
they  can  fulfill the integrative possibilities  of  good
laws by transcending legalistic preoccupations with laws.

     Jesus of Nazareth was in conflict with the  religious
leaders of his day---because many of the religious leaders
were  compulsively preoccupied with all of the  legalistic
details of their religious laws.   Jesus preached a gospel
of liberation and healing of people  who  were burdened by
disintegrative  preoccupations  with conformity  to  laws,
commandments,   proscriptions,  prescriptions and  taboos.
Jesus shows indifference towards laws which the idolatrous
religious  leaders  worshipped.    His  indifference   and
failure  to  worship  the  laws  was  underscored  by  his
presumptuous   way   of   talking   about   his   personal
relationship with God---blasphemous familiarity  as if God
were a Loving Father rather than  a King  addicted  to the
enforcement of an endless list of legalistic minutia.

     Within  Christianity there are many religious leaders
who  contend  that through the birth,  life and  death  of
Jesus of  Nazareth---the God of Love liberated all  of his
Children  from  the prisons of  compulsive  preoccupations
with all the legalistic minutia of law.

     Within  Christianity there are many  other  religious
leaders  who continue to be compulsively preoccupied  with
the  necessity of fulfilling all the details of legalistic
laws---in  order to become acceptable in the eyes of their
conception   of  a  King  God  who  is  addicted  to   the
enforcement of their endless list of legalistic minutia.

     The conflict continues.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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