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The Bible is a book which reveals life, primarily the uncreated eternal life which is God and which is in God. Its purpose is to reveal how this life forms God's counterpart, which is the transformed and conformed corporate body of Christ, a group of human beings who have become the same as Christ in life and nature but not in the Godhead. The universe was created based upon this principle.
Original creation was simply "in the Beginning". Some time later an event affecting that creation took place and the earth, which is the center of and purpose for creation, became damaged being covered by water. The time span for these events was evidently very long. Then, about six thousand years ago, a restoration of God's original purpose took place. The damaged earth was restored and a man was created in the image and likeness of God who is Christ.
This created man, after the processes of transformation and conformation have been fully realized, will become God's counterpart to manifest and glorify God for eternity. The content of the Bible reveals how God's purpose is realized both corporately and individually. It is not meant to convey a historical record to satisfy intellectual pursuit. In fact, by the use of the mind it is impossible to understand this writing which is the expression of spirit. To contend for or against the veracity of this writing is an exercise of futility. Since man was created with a spirit, by the exercise of this spirit this spiritual writing can begin to be understood. However since Christ is both the life-giving Spirit and a fully human man of flesh and bone, He has a mystical body which is both fully human and spirit made up of many members and called the church. Apart from being a part of this body it is impossible to understand this writing or to participate in God's purpose in creation and for man. Those who by God's mercy are incorporated into this body, but only as it is revealed in the writing, and not according to man's concept, are spontaneously able to become God's purpose. In this body there are no contentions. There is simply the mutual experience of becoming this writing, the Word, which became flesh, in order that certain men, as beings of flesh, can become God's counterpart, His Body.
As an aside to this marvelous premise there is a comment made by whom I do not know, but it gives much insight to the true condition of all those outside of the participation in the body of Christ: “The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence. Because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people are living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
Our daily living should be the same as our experience in genuine prayer. When we pray ourselves into the spirit, we are one with the Lord, we enjoy His presence, and we spontaneously live Him. Without exerting any effort, we are holy, spiritual, and victorious. We have no problems and no anxieties. I believe we all have had experiences like this in prayer. These experiences of genuine prayer should be the model for our daily experience with the Lord. This means that our experience in our daily life should be the same as that in prayer.
