Eternal life

Thursday, April 30, 2009. We have mentioned the task of sustainability for our concepts of life, of a state of existence which is not limited by decay, by death. In ghe gospel of John 10, 28 Jesus says: “I give them eternal life, they will never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.” So the first observation here is that we are not the only people asking for sustainability. The modern goal of controlable and sustainable social, economic or ecologic systems is as old as mankind. It is one of the main tasks of Jesus.

But Jesus does not try to establish a sustainable eternal life in a way we would expect. The logic of the bible is different from our approach! Jesus uses completely different tools. He works with different possibilities which are not within our options as long as we stay in the limits of our natural laws. He operates on a completely different level!

The way Jesus gives “eternal life” to people is in many ways a mystery. This eternal life comes by faith and trust. It is not an eternal life which would be established within the limits of our world, within the limits of natural laws. Our body will die, we do not keep it. This “eternal” life Jesus is talking about is a quality which come to us from him by faith only. It is a kind of ownership, we are given to Jesus. In the gospel of John we find further remarks on this: John 6:39 “This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.

There are a lot of tools in modern science of creativity to bring people to a thinking beyond their usual mental limits. Jesus here clearly breaks all these limits by pointing out God's options, which are not bound by death or any other standard limits guiding our thoughts and actions. [R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]

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