Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 51
Sin and Atonement 51 If it is carnal fire and a corporeal punishment, then one has to extend one’s imagination to the limit of its tethers to imagine what may have happened in the case of Jesus Christ as. Before being subjected to the Fire, was his soul re-imprisoned in the body of the man he had been haunting all his life on earth, or was he somehow relegated to an astral body? If the latter is the case then that astral body would have been beyond the reach of the carnal fire of hell to scorch, punish or destroy. On the other hand if we accept the scenario that the body of the man he had occu- pied would be reconstructed for Jesus as as a sort of medium through which he could suffer hell, then one cannot fail to notice another blow done to the principle of divine justice. Poor man, first of all he was practically hijacked for all his life by an alien soul, but then as a reward for the hospitality forced upon him he would burn in hell for no crime of his own. The credit of his sacrifice being totally monopolised by the alien occupant within him. Again, what about the soul of that man? Perhaps he did not have a soul of his own. If he did not, then the man in Jesus as and the God in Jesus as had to be one and the same person and the plea that Jesus as acted sometimes by his human impulses and sometimes by Divine Will is reduced to sheer hocus-pocus. The only for- mula acceptable to any intellect is that one soul and one body equals one person. Two souls and one body is a bizarre idea which can only be entertained by those who believe in people being haunted by ghosts or similar things.