Cosmos Body of God

COSMOS THE BODY OF GOD: ISA PURUSHA TATVA
M.M.NINAN
But in a society where there is one selfish person, this will affect the whole society simply for the
survival. The emphasis on individual destroyed the families. The emphasis on family destroyed the
community, emphasis on community destroyed the nation and so on until it destroyed the cosmic
functioning and the Kingdom of God. It pained God. He is a wounded God, He let Himself be
wounded. He was prepared for this even before the creation of the World.
When the first man fell into sin, this sin enveloped the whole mankind. Just as sin entered into the
world by one man, and death by means of sin, so death was imposed upon all men, inasmuch as they
all have sinned” (Romans 5:12). They are all gone astray and they have been rejected; there is none
who does good, no, not one. (Romans 3:12,9. “As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one”.
Though the creation was intended to be for eternity, the fallen creatures brought to themselves hell. A
selfish society is the hell. A universe without justice,love, compassion and mercy was far worse to
experience. So God in his mercy instituted death on his Sons. But with the hope that one day He
could redeem his Sons to their proper place including the divine realm. Eastern liturgy of St. James
sings thus, "By thy ordinace death was instituted and by your resurrection it was cancelled. So every
tongue will praise you."
Through the history of man, God tried to cure this cancer. The problem was how to cure this yetzer
hara factor leaning into sin without infringing on the freedom of will. Without freedom there are no
sons, no growth and fulness. But it also leaves the possibility of choice and hence sin. The only way
was to deter yetzer hara and instill yetzer tov. For this God chose Israel and gave them the Law to
force redemption by the law of Karma by giving due recompense with the divine justice. Mosaic Law
could not do the control, for the law was weak through the weakness of the flesh (Romans 8:3). Law
could not control the fallen race of man.
When the pain became too sharp, God took action. He created another body within his universal body
in order to save the body and the Kingdom. This is incarnation. Distancing himself from the creation
as transcendant God would work no longer. Yet God cannot take away the freedom of the creation.
God cannot disregard the pain in His Body. The solution was found in the incarnation.
Hence
(Joh 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(Joh 1:11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
(Joh 1:14-17) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth ....... For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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