S is for SAVIOUR part 1

I can't quite get my head around it. It's just too big to take in, too illogical, too amazing. So let's take it from the beginning. Then you can decide for yourself. This is my interpretation of what I read.

This divine being, we call God, has no beginning, He's always been around. But at some stage in His existence, He creates everything that we know, and a lot that we don't know. He makes the universe, the planets and a special one called Earth. He creates a special star called Sun to provide light, but not to everywhere at the same time and when we can't see this sun we see the moon that is positioned so as to reflect the light of the sun. Still with me? On this planet Earth He makes areas of land and water, some very deep and some very salty, He makes thousands of different animals, perfectly suited to where He sets them and then He makes a man, to be like Him and to watch over everything else. From the man He forms a woman and He gives them the keys to the perfect holiday resort. It's really paradise and they love it, but an angel with a dark heart who had been thrown out of God's own home, tries to get his revenge by deceiving God's greatest creation and because the man and the woman disobey God as a result, they find themselves outside, looking in on paradise. But for some reason, despite their despair, they don't exactly go looking for a way to get back inside. Instead they begin to discover that there are far more devious ways to disobey their creator than eating an apple, though that bit always sticks in their throats, especially Adam!

Through time, the family grows and expands until every place is full of them, except of course paradise. They work hard and they play hard but somewhere along the line, they begin to discover wrinkles, toothache, pains, sick days and sagging skin. Could these bodies made in the image of the creator be wearing out? Why don't they last for ever? Just because one man disobeyed why do they all suffer? Looks like some sort of inherited gene. Then Methuselah dies. Oh yes, others died before him, even Adam, but nobody had lived for 969 years - and no one would again. That's a sort of watershed in the whole story fro the life expectancy drops quite drastically now, yet not everyone believes in the creator like Enoch., Methuselah's dad. But God hasn't forgotten. In fact, He so loves his special creation's descendants that He wants nothing better than to bring them back into paradise, where their bodies will never die. But here's the snag. Although the idea, in principle, is appealing, the dark angel says that they'd have to give up all the things they've learnt since their ancestors left paradise. And anyway, do they really believe that it ever existed?

But God doesn't give up. First He decides to start again so after warning them, He drowns everyone except for Enoch's great grandson, Noah and His family, because, quite simply Noah decides to listen and obey His creator. For the first time, God becomes a Saviour because He protects and delivers Noah and preserves Eve's offspring for another day, just like He promised. And it's one of Noah's descendants, Abraham whose grandson Jacob, becomes the father of the nation that God chooses to be his own and through His love for them, He protects them and gives them a land in which to live, not unlike paradise, without the eternal life of course and a set of rules to live by. Unfortunately it's not a two way love affair, except for a few who keep faith in Him, and because He lets Israel choose their destiny, they make bad choices and, despite all the warnings from a select band of prophets who see what's coming, the people are no closer to paradise than the day Adam and Eve were sent packing. Even with 'mini' saviours such as Jeremiah, Nehemiah, David, Isaiah and Ezekiel, to name but a few, their deliverance was only for a short time, until they died and then the dark angel persuaded the people to turn around when paradise was up ahead.

There was really only one plan of action left. There had to be a fresh start and God had to find a way to forget their past but they would need a saviour who would constantly be there, to keep them on the road to paradise. A saviour who would never die. And that left only one person. God himself. I 'll tell you that bit tomorrow.