In the early Christian era, a few from the Eastern Church realized that Christ was clearly something older, larger, and different from Jesus. They mystically saw that Jesus is the union of human and divine in one person, and Christ is the eternal union of matter and Spirit from the beginning of time. Nevertheless, the later centuries tended to lose this mystical element in favor of a more dualistic Christianity. What we could not unite in Jesus, we could not unite in ourselves.
Christianity became another moralistic religion. Until the reforms of the 1960’s and the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholic Christianity was overwhelmingly a tribal religion and hardly “catholic” at all.
We should have been at the forefront of all of the love and justice issues. As Paul writes, “the world, life and death, the present and the future are all your servants, for you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God” (1 Corinthians 3:22-23).
Full salvation is universal belonging, universal connecting, and oneness, and our word for that is “heaven.”
1 Corinthians 15:28 “Then, when all things are under his authority, the Son will put himself under God’s authority, so that God, who gave his Son authority over all things, will be utterly supreme over everything everywhere.”
