Thoughts on Salvation Theories

From “Thoughts on Salvation Theories” 07/02/2025

The concept of redemption as defined originally, in redeeming the firstborn of a woman through the sacrifice of another animal, lends itself to the title for Jesus Christ as “The Redeemer” in the sense that his death suffices for the sacrifice on behalf of all for the right to live.

(Keeping a pin in the idea that this originally only applies to the firstborn of a woman, which “parteth the womb”)

This implies a basic theology wherein the cost of existence is severe naturally, and that God demands of us our lives merely for the right to live, a payment which is redeemed (in Christian thought) through the sacrifice of Christ and usable as license for the right to exist through the faith of his sacrifice in that capacity. This suggests that the severe cost of the right to exist has only one known means of payment (besides death, which is a self-defeating cost). What other methods of redemption could exist, under the dressings of a Creation which has induced its own suffering as an offer of peace to the beings which reside within it? Can the inherent suffering of man, as Creation suffering itself (inflicting suffering onto itself) be seen as the fulfillment of that theology? (Man as Christ the sufferer)

Creation demands that the cost of living is to die, and that every instant of living up until death is an infraction against the demanded cost (which is death). Why is this true? God demands the first and greatest of all things in fealty toward Him as ruler of all things. Creation demands the fullest fruits of our lives, to be taken from us and consumed into it; it demands that we extol it in every moment if we refuse to meet it’s assigned cost of doing otherwise (to die). Thus to fail to create, and fail to cast one’s eyes onto Creation, and to give it the greatest of one’s life, is akin to death, and those who fail are deserving to die, and sin against Creation each instant they are not attentive and servile to Creation. 

But what are these fruits? They must be defined by the individual, as the cost greatest to them. The voice, the works of their hands, the food they make, the comfort they give. When consumed by them or by others, they are consumed by Creation as payment short of death for the right to live. It is no less a thing to eat of your own fruits than it is to have them stolen away by a bandit or a pack of dogs. To dust it returns, and such is the cost of your existence. One must give their life to living. One must die in every moment, through the expiration of all their strength in reverence of the glory of all Creation.

All of this is true – if it is true that the cost of living is to die.