This Life & World??
What is this world & life?? According to the full narrative of the Bible??
This is my short summary, after years of studying & contemplating & teaching & preaching:
(1) A world God made for us, His children, to truly enjoy.
(2) A world God made for us, in which we’d also be deeply fulfilled by glorifying God every day of life…simply by being great to others & great to the planet.
(3) Then…it became a world in which we got enslaved to sin & darkness, which is us concentrating WAY more on self, & WAY less on glorifying God by being great to others & great to the planet.
(4) Then, God sent all kinds of people (prophets), generation after generation, to call us out, & to point us to our original roots…which is a life in which we greatly enjoy the blessings of God, & at the same time glorify God & find deep fulfillment in life by being great to others & great to the planet.
(5) Then…when we never really listened to any of the prophets God sent, God finally came here in the flesh Himself, in the divine form of His Son, to pay for our participation in sin & darkness, & to empower us back to our glorious/original way of living to the glory of God, & to show us clearly that a new chapter is coming where we’ll all get back to our original purpose of enjoying the blessings of God, & being great to others & great to the planet (the creation made new & glorious!)
This IS the narrative of Ancient Christianity. I wish someone would’ve laid it out for me this plainly years ago.