CHRIST’S MISSION
Christ’s role in the Plan of Salvation

 

The Plan of Salvation required someone to carry out its most difficult task.

 

Now let’s take a closer look at what salvation through Jesus Christ really means.

“Salvation,” of course, is another word that carries a lot of baggage.

 

What salvation essentially means is that we are never locked out of heaven.

For Christ offers endless forgiveness and acceptance.

 

Meaning that no matter how badly we mishandle a situation, if we ask for help in finding a way forward, we will receive it.

What salvation really means

Unfortunately, organized religion has almost completely misunderstood what salvation is.

Although few people realize the full significance of this.

 

Many believe Christ died on the cross for all our sins. Therefore, no one is accountable for their own sins anymore.

Christ, they believe, has atoned for all of them through his death.

 

Of course, this cannot be so.

 

As we look at the real story, it will become obvious how such a comfortable misunderstanding could have come about.

But also, why this would be senseless.

 

All that said, salvation is in fact something that has been accomplished on this earth sphere, and also in every sphere of existence.

 

Christ has existed since long before he came to visit Earth as Jesus.

After the Fall, Christ is the one who organized all the unfallen spirits, bringing together their strength and area of perfection to help the Plan of Salvation.

 

It’s important to understand that each created being has been created perfectly in one way. So each represents a divine aspect, like love, wisdom or courage, for example.

Since every thought, feeling, ambition and act is a spiritual form, it creates a world.

These spiritual beings created worlds of beauty and a way for each being to eventually become Godlike.

 

But, since the Fall, in order to assist on the Plan, these unfallen spirits had to postpone their own goals.

The crux of the matter

From our human perspective, millions and millions of years passed, waiting for enough fallen spirits to have enough longing to get back to God.

This needed to happen for Earth to come into existence and humans to begin incarnating here.

 

While all of this was going on, Christ was busy preparing, working and planning ahead.

 

When the time was right, he sent various pure spirits to live on Earth.

Some great prophets and so-called saints fit in this category.

 

He also organized the teachings that the pure spirits would deliver.

This would take place either through inspiration and guidance, or through communication with God’s world.

 

The painstaking detail of this cannot be overstated.

 

Everything had to work out so it would comply with spiritual laws of justice.

 

Still, no matter how much a human being developed while living on Earth, when death came—or even during sleep—the soul still returned to the dark spheres.

Even if someone sincerely improved and began to create light and harmony within themselves, those newly formed spheres remained under Lucifer’s dominion.

 

And Lucifer had no intention of surrendering his authority over such souls.

 

As a result, a person could not yet become completely free of Lucifer’s influence.

A soul would possess both harmonious and disharmonious spheres at the same time.

In fact, something similar still happens today.

 

Whenever our development is uneven—when we are purified in some areas but still blind or weak in others—we carry both the light and the darkness we have created.

 

At a certain point, there was a ripeness, a readiness, among those who consciously desired to have complete union with God.

This was the time for the most important part of the Plan of Salvation to take place.

 

And Christ took this part upon himself.

 

There was a deeper reason for this, beyond his infinite love and compassion for his fallen brothers and sisters.

Lucifer had developed an intense jealousy of Christ.

So it was logical for Jesus to prove his love through his great sacrifice and work.

 

Through his deed, Chirst would make it possible, not only for all fallen creatures to return to God, but for Lucifer himself to return as well.

Though far in the future.

 

God made Christ the King of the Universe, and with such high privilege comes the strongest responsibilities.

 

The way Christ carried this heavy burden, he gave us all an excellent example to follow.

A challenging agreement

When the time was ripe, Christ confronted Lucifer himself.

 

Christ said: “Many spirits no longer wish to remain under your rule. They long to return to God. You must set them free.”

 

But Lucifer refused.

 

He claimed he had no obligation to recognize divine law and would continue to use his power as he pleased.

Christ replied, “In that case, there must be a war between our worlds.”

 

To us, this may sound strange—as though Christ and Lucifer simply spoke together like two human beings.

Yet everything that exists on Earth is only a faint reflection of what exists in the Spirit World.

 

There, everything has form.

Love has form. A beautiful thought creates form.

Even wicked thoughts create form.

Here, only material objects have form.

 

This may sound childish, this notion that Lucifer and Christ would talk together like two human beings. But that’s basically what happened.

It just wouldn’t have looked exactly the same as when we talk.

The procedure would have been somewhat different.

 

The chances in the war would need to be even, meaning the forces would be numerically lopsided.

For the forces of good are far stronger than the forces of evil.

 

In this case, about twenty to one.

 

Lucifer replied, “Even if you defeat me and take my power away, I will still not recognize God’s law as just.”

 

This totally went against everything the Plan of Salvation was about.

After all, great pains were being taken to make sure that all was fair and no one’s free will was violated.

The whole point was that no one should ever be eternally damned.

 

Not even Lucifer himself.

 

The ultimate goal here was to work things in such a way that Lucifer himself would have to admit that, yes, God’s laws are in fact absolutely just.

 

Christ responded to Lucifer with this: “Tell me, in what way would you consider the divine powers to be totally just?”

 

Lucifer answered, “I’ll fight such a war if one being—and they can be from the world of God, if you wish—will live on Earth as a human. And this person won’t have any protection or guidance from the world of God at crucial times.

 

“Further, they will have a great part of their knowledge dimmed out, with matter standing in the way like for everyone else.

 

“If, after I get done with them, they remain faithful to God, I will have that battle with you.

 

“Now, I plan to use all the temptations that I’m so good at. And I will create the most difficult conditions imaginable.

 

“Make no mistake—I would offer this person every worldly power. And I would offer that they could be released from all hardship, if they just forsook God.

 

“But if they remained faithful to God under these conditions—and I doubt very much… no, I’d say it would be impossible—then we will have that battle.

 

“And if you win, I will recognize God’s law as being utterly just.”

 

First of all, every living being has guardian spirits from God’s world attending to them, at all times.

Of course, some people’s attitudes may keep these spirits from being able to come very close.

 

Nevertheless, they are there in the background, observing.

 

Their work is to make sure that nothing happens to their protégé that is not in keeping with God’s laws.

Or that the person may be too weak to handle.

 

This idea of being left all alone on planet Earth, without the support of God’s Spirit World, would be an extreme hardship.

Not to mention, having to resist attacks, challenges, temptations, you name it.

 

No human being had ever endured such a thing.

 

Looking back, from the vantage point of where we stand now, no matter how pure and wonderful his teachings may have been, Christ cannot be compared with any other person who has ever lived.

 

There is no comparison.

 

Christ showed us what others have also taught.

But he did it under circumstances that were infinitely more difficult than what anyone else has ever had to bear.

What it takes to overcome

This was the deal.

 

These were Lucifer’s conditions that he needed to have met if he was going to recognize God’s laws as being just.

Only then would he go to war with Christ and his battalions.

 

But this is the crucial point.

 

Should Lucifer lose, then Christ would get to make the terms.

Which were that Lucifer would never again doubt God’s justice in any way.

 

In the end, an agreement was reached and the plans were drawn up. As mentioned, Christ took it upon himself to be the one to go to Earth, even though Lucifer did not specify that it had to be him.

If one now reads the Bible from this point of view, it may paint a markedly different picture.

The life of Jesus may now make a bit more sense.

 

What won’t make sense is this notion that Christ died on the cross for the sins others have committed.

 

If we have committed a sin, we are still responsible for it.

Us—and no one else.

 

We have to straighten out our own mistakes.

No one can—or should—do this for us.

 

If someone else could do this work for us, we would gain no purification from it.

 

It would defeat the purpose.

 

For we would miss out on the strength we would develop from the very process of self-purification.

And this is exactly what we need, if we want to protect ourselves from committing even more sins.

 

As long as the root of evil is not torn out, it will produce bad fruit again and again.

And we are the only ones who can do the uprooting of the evil that lives inside us.

 

So no, giving us a free pass for our transgressions is not at all the reason that Christ suffered and died for us.

 

This explanation also sheds light on the reason that Jesus was left so completely alone for such a long time.

Just as for any other person coming to planet Earth, he didn’t have the same knowledge once he got here that he had as a spirit.

If he had, this task would have been substantially easier.

 

But being the highest being in all creation did have some benefits. He did have some knowledge of what was going on.

He also had unsurpassed spiritual strength and wisdom.

 

But there would be no purpose at all for coming to Earth—as true for Jesus as for anyone—if we had the same knowledge here in the flesh as we do on the other side of the veil.

 

What would be the point of coming here at all?

 

And so Christ came to Earth—knowing the ordeal that awaited him.