The Bible is the Word of God which reveals His nature, will, and way. The postulate that we should make Jesus Lord of our lives is based upon a few preliminary axiomatic assumptions: God exists, His nature is good, Christ/the Word is the source/essence underlying the human spirit, God arose from nothing, or existed forever, alone, without peer or creator. God created the universe to experience relationship. God’s nature is love. We satisfy His desire for love as we fully give ourselves to acting according to His will and way.
The Bible is a collection of the writings of men, which were inspired by God and reveal His nature to humanity. The assertion that we should make Jesus the Lord of our lives is grounded in several axiomatic assumptions and implications from the story of Jesus’ life as recorded in the Gospels:
- God Exists: God’s existence is the foundation of all existence, as all nature and spirit are composed of His substance – His mind/spirit/nature and consciousness.
- God’s Nature is Good: Everything that exists, both good and evil was created by the Son/the Word. The Father is untouched by evil and in Him there is no shadow. Through the Son, the Father has allowed the universe to manifest both good and evil, but He loves only that which is good. He defines goodness, and God loves and adopts the man who chooses to act in holiness/Godliness and the way of His Law.
- Consciousness is a Fundamental Attribute of the God and the Creation: Consciousness is a core attribute of God’s existence. Through the Son/the Word He created the elemental units of the universe, the Conscious Points. The Father created/begat the Son by declaring/visualizing/seeing Himself looking back at Himself and adopting that point of view as the perpetual identity of “other” with the full character of Himself. Thus, the repeated declaration of Jesus, that He and the Father are One. (This quote is usually interpreted as being a mystery of the Trinity, or that they were of the same character. But taken literally, this perspective gives a possible understanding of the unity of Father, Son, and Spirit.) The Son created all things, and He did so by first declaring the Conscious Points into existence. Having established a foundation of a universe which obeyed natural law, He miraculously commanded/shaped/organized the placement of Conscious Points as was (occasionally) needed to supernaturally guide the evolution of the universe to manifest His creation and plan. He filled space with Conscious Points and gave them properties of relationship (rules of relationship on how to move) that would naturally/automatically manifest the laws of nature. The Conscious Points are the substrate of a universe, the elemental building blocks from which mind, matter, energy, space and time arise. The Conscious Points are able to “see” each other and react to each other’s presence. He created four types of Conscious Points, each with different properties/rules of relationship. The properties of any two Conscious Points dictate their response to each other (their movement in the next Moment). The rules of relationship between the Conscious Points dictate their aggregation as subatomic particles, which then aggregate to form atoms, molecules, organic and inorganic assemblies of inanimate and animate life seen in the mineral, plant, microrganism, and animal kingdoms. The rules of relationship between Conscious Points are the fundamental drivers of the laws of nature. The aggregation of Conscious Points into quanta of mass and energy is the method of converting the spiritual substance of consciousness into the physical substance of matter and energy.
- Creation for Love: God created the universe as a means to experience and share freely given love. By creating a universe with complexity, groups of Conscious Points with configuration-based identity and character, He created a universe with the potential for free will and hence the choice to love Him, or not, by choosing to obey and live His Way/Law. The universe was created to experience relationship, and thus, to satisfy His need for the satisfaction of His desire for experienced/mature love.
- Divine Love in Human Choices: God experiences love when we choose to act in accordance with His will and way. Loving God is abstract, given that we cannot see, touch, or hear Him clearly/tangibly. Thus, His love is satisfied through the relationships with our fellow man and loving ourselves according to the Way of His Law. In this surrogate lawful/holy/loving relationship with neighbor and self, God feels our every thought, motivation, and relationship, and His desire for love is satisfied.
- Accepting Jesus as one’s Lord/guide/master/King allows the Holy Spirit to live in our hearts/minds and guide us: We are flesh and blood, animals with an unholy nature/drive, to satisfy the desires of our animal nature. As animals, acting out that nature, we cannot satisfy the heart of God in our relations with self and neighbor. It is the assent, that faith, that commitment to follow God’s Way/Law as embodied by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the creator and King of all, that we can choose to override the animal desires, and choose Godliness in every transaction and action. In so doing, we are Holy, as He is holy, and we satisfy the heart of the Father, the Almighty One.
- Accepting the sacrifice of Jesus
- for our sins allows us to enter into the presence of the most Holy, Pure, and Good Father God. Until we have cleansed our souls of the sin we have embraced/loved/drunk and consumed, we cannot enter into the presence of perfect holiness. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ, His unjust/unwarranted murder by men under the influence of Satan, was a one-time sacrifice that completed the creation when He said, “It is finished.” As sinners, as men who had willfully chosen to contract with Satan. We traded our life and soul for the experience of the unholy. We sold our soul to the devil, and he owned us legally/rightfully/willingly. That debt can be paid by substituting our allegiance to Satan as our lord, with our allegiance to Jesus as our Lord.