Holistic Life and the One World Kingdom

"The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven." - Walter Rauschenbusch

Many Christian folks in the West are unfamiliar with what the Scriptures truly say about the nature of life and our horizontal (between us and everything on earth) and vertical (between us and God) relationships.

Indeed, many within the walls of Christendom have swallowed the poison pill of dualism. In this dualistic outlook, we are caged immortal spirits enslaved in loathsome prisons of flesh.

In contrast to this corrosive outlook, biblical Hebraic anthropology describes as man as a holistic unity, where mind, body, and spirit are tightly interwoven elements of one living, conditionally immortal, being. To boil it down: we don't have souls, we are souls.

Drawing from that reality, the goal of this life is not to fly away to some ethereal plane outside this earthbound life (if that were the case, why not kill ourselves?), but to bring the realms of heaven and earth into holy fusion, where the will of God flourishes on earth, as it is in heaven.

In light of that purpose, we should not dare to diminish our lives on Earth. This is where we were created to dwell. Even in the fullness of the olam haba (the world to come), we will be living on this glorious earth, not in some fantasy heaven with endless harp classes and clouds, and little halos around everyone's heads.