Salvation

In theology, salvation can mean three related things:

* being saved from something, such as suffering or the punishment of sin - also called deliverance;
* being saved for something, such as an afterlife or participating in the Reign of God - also called redemption
* social liberation and healing, as in liberation theology.

The theological study of salvation is called Soteriology and also covers the means by which salvation is effected or achieved, and its results or effects.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation

Transcendence (religion)

In religion, transcendence is a condition or state of being that surpasses physical existence, and in one form is also independent of it. It is affirmed in the concept of the divine in the major religious traditions, and contrasts with the notion of God, or the Absolute existing exclusively in the physical order (immanentism), or indistinguishable from it (pantheism). Transcendence can be attributed to the divine not only in its being, but also in its knowability. Thus, God transcends the universe, but also transcends knowledge (is beyond the grasp of the human mind). Although transcendence is defined as the opposite of immanence, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Some theologians and metaphysicians of the great religious traditions affirm that God, or Brahman, is both within and beyond the universe (panentheism); in it, but not of it; simultaneously pervading it and surpassing it.

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transce...%28religion%29

Salvation appears to speak to Earthly concerns by this defintion… saved from suffering (on Earth) … saved for an afterlife (after this Earth) … social liberation … on Earth…

Transcendence surpasses physical existence…. Independent of the physical ….

(immanent = physical God) (pantheism=abstract God) …. Transcendence is affirmed in

the Divine …. By being, by knowing .. God is beyond the grasp of the human mind…

transcendent God (beyond the grasp of human mind) and immanent God (physical God) are opposites but not exclusive … (of course not) … panentheism =

immanent+transcendant God…

how am I doing? In my search for healing, I found it necessary to rise above my pains… the anecdotes of drowning, darkness, heaviness, falling, etc all describe a place, a position of being under neath….

God is High…. So I began to reach higher in my thoughts and hopes and dreams… even though I was so low, I looked for things, signs, feelings above where I felt I was…

the familiar “Look up” statement meant more than it used to… “High” had a new meaning for me… “Up” became a simple symbol for me.. I’d draw an arrow on the drawing pointing up…

I began to look at things from numerous angles… back/forward/left/front/top/bottm….

The more angles I looked at a problem or thing from, the more I discovered about it..

Childsplay… the boy in the playground who picks up a rock to examine it, slowly turning it in his hands to see everything….

Somewhere along the way I lost that instinct… did I become industrialized?

This has been my personal war to be human…..

if you've taken time to read all this, thank you very much...