Christus Victor - A disputed model of duality and spiritual warfare

Although the prophetic interpreter voice of the day often gives specific dates or targets such as December 21, 2012 or October 28, 2011, bible prophecy interpreters are less likely to date their beliefs of what is to come. They usually adhere to the warning that "no one will know the day or the hour, not even the prophets..but there will be signs...." and those signs that are so evident in the world today seem to give creedence to those bible prophecy interpreters who at least mention 2012 in their work. See the TV minister Jack Van Impe's 2012 references for more on that.

The Bible is about spirit and the position of material within that spirit and about doing what it takes to remove the dark forces of evil from shining on the journey of the enlightened soul. It's a story of physical being in a metaphysical realm. The movie is an eternal story with no beginning and no end, it's all body. The acts are played in cycles of time where physical and metaphysical battles between good and evil clash. Where at times evil and destructive forces and people rule and at other times good and progressive people and concepts rule. Humans are but a small part of these cyclic acts. The human psyche is affected by the whole and effects the whole.

Gustaf Aulen looked deeply into the duality of good and evil forces and wrote of his observation of the role of the early churches and the atonement or penitance system that they used. The Aulen Christus Victor book describes three basic theories in view of these atonements. One of these Christus Victor theories basically states that Adam and Eve sold humanity to the Devil and that the church needed to pay a ransom to the dark side in order to break the bondage. The ransom was Jesus.

The Grey Coats is a blog that mentions spiritual duality in the form of Grey Coats versus Blue Coats and they have written what i find to be a good review of Aulen's Thesis on duality in the early churches and of the cosmic influence and the human psyche reacting to the metaphysical lords which are the worshipped deity of those church priests and congregation.

Excerpt from Christus Victor.

“Man had been created by God that he might have life. If now, having lost life, and having been harmed by the serpent, he were not to return to life but were to be wholly abandoned to death, then God would have been defeated, and the malice of the Serpent would have overcome God’s will.”

Are we all flesh and bone and serfs of a metaphysical aura and if we are then are we free to choose who's servants we will be?

Will we someday fully ascend into the perfected realm of heaven or is all religious doctrine just a false belief system?

Is this duality of good and evil just a test and is the real reality a singular realm like the pre-Adamic era where we did not know of good and evil. Everything just was.



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Reference

The Grey Coats - Christus Victor review

Wikipedia - Gustaf Aulen, Christus Victor