Metaphysical Nature of Some Aspects of the Faith

The Power of Words and Thoughts

Being created by the Word, our words and thoughts are therefore creative.  They have been endowed with this power because of the nature of the source: the Logos.  Should one not wonder at how words and thoughts have been imbued with actual creative power?  There is nothing native to them which should cause this.  From whence, therefore, do they derive this characteristic?

The Greeks had it right when they said man is not free to speak any sort of gibberish he wants.  His words must correspond to reality.  If they do not he has lost the most elemental aspect of what it means to be human.  Thoughts and Words can create reality because of the metaphysical source behind them.

Death and Resurrection

In the fullness of time the Logos became Incarnate.  Among other reasons, this was necessary so he could die.  His death was real death, it was not a "falling asleep."  Death - complete death - was necessary for what was about to occur: resurrection.  His resurrection was not a "returning to life," as in the case of Lazarus.  Prior to Christ's death, there was one door in the tomb of death: the front door.  One way in, no way out.  In the case of Lazarus, he came back out the same door and therefore was destined to die again.  In the resurrection of the Logos, the very act of rising - a completely new and hitherto unknown reality - created a door in the back side of the tomb.  It now becomes possible to rise to a new state of being.

These crude pictures of a tomb depict this:

Prior to Christ, one way in, no way out.

Lazarus had no "resurrection" but rather a return back to this life.

Christ "created" the whole reality of resurrection.  It did not exist before Him and will now exist forever because of his act.  His action created an entirely new metaphysical reality of death, bursting open the back side of the tomb and creating a second door which opens onto eternity.

The Ascension

Christ ascended into heaven.  This has the most profound implications for us, his body.  Why?  Because he is the head, we are his body.  Where the head goes, the body follows.  His ascension into heaven created a whole new road which did not exist before.  He will now draw us in his train to where he, the head, has gone.  The body will snap up to heaven once its work on earth is complete.

Belief in this revelation offers the most profound hope for us, his members.