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·	God, transcendent of space-time, is creator of the universe, and yet indwells it (immanent) and gives it meaning.

·	God is the Eternal Society, best understood by trinitarianism – the codification of biblical data reveals three persons, principally pictured to us as the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit; the Destination, the Way, the Navigator; God, the Lord, the Helper.

·	God created man in his1 own likeness – a societal species enabled to live on a conscious moral plane beyond the rest of Earth’s life, having a cosmic destination.

·	God defined the human relationship of marriage as special man to woman covenants, a definition none can morally & judicially redefine.

·	humanity rebelled, falling into morally flawed spirituality in which we are conceived as not guilty but flawed.

·	because of man’s sin, Earth’s life is depressed until the eschatological harvest.

·	God – put in pictures of time – ‘pre-saw’ & ‘pre-planned’ salvation, not to restore but to raise man above man’s pre-rebellion status – not back to naive goodness, but towards mature goodness.

·	God the Son became Jesus, the permanent temporal mode of the uncreated eternal second person of deity.  Jesus’ incarnation, birth, life, death, & resurrection, were and are to lift us into and develop in us God’s life.

·	this exaltation into God’s life is individually triggered by welcoming Jesus, the one-of-a-kind Son of God, and accomplished by the Spirit of God on the grounds of atonement through Jesus’ death.

·	lifestyle is to be, God helping, based on the new (Yeshuic) covenant, although the old (Sinaitic) covenant contained many global imperatives still globally in force.

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those identified with Jesus as revealing new covenant authority (transcending human authority) should identify with similar believers over the millennia by baptism/immersion in water identifying with the unity of the Father, Son, & the Holy Spirit, a symbolism also of Jesus’ central motif of death, burial, & resurrection that is shared spiritually by his brothers and sisters.

·	God’s people should, again and again, in this life, meaningfully eat & drink reminders of Jesus’ death for them, growing in their appreciation of the Yeshuic covenant.

·	human history is in relationship to God, with human freewill operating within parameters of God’s central objectives, the next being Jesus’ return to put down rebellion & begin a new cosmic level for human society, putting away all who have wilfully rejected him.

·	the life to come will be fully meaningful & include freedom from many current space-time limitations.