imitation of christ

   Imitation of Jesus! I do not mean the kind of imitation consisting of fasting and flagellation, and so on. No, imitation means following the example, being willing to witness for the truth and against untruth, and to do so without seeking support whatsoever from any external power, neither attaching oneself to any power nor forming a party. No wonder we humans are unable to get involved with this kind of imitation...Christ did not establish any doctrine; he acted.  He did not teach that there was redemption, he redeemed. Christ's relationship to God, nature, and the human situation was conditioned by his activity.  Everything else is to be regarded only as introduction.                                                                              

                                                                               -Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard         

   The very first condition for becoming a Christian is to be absolutely introverted...Being thus introverted, the learner then understands, or learns to understand, what the task of becoming and being a Christian really is-every instant that he is extroverted is wasted...The God-Man is the sign of contradiction. And why? Because, replies the Scripture, He shall reveal the thoughts of hearts.  Has, then, this modern notion about the speculative unity between God and man, all about regarding Christianity merely as a doctrine-has it the remotest resemblance to the Christian? No...And the Christian is: the sign of contradiction which reveals the thoughts of the heart. The God-Man is an individual man, not a fantastic unity which never existed...He is least of all a lecturer who teaches directly for scribbling students or dictates paragraphs to stenographers; He does just the opposite, He reveals the thoughts of the hearts. Oh, it is so comfortable to be a listener or a transcriber when everything goes on so directly-but let these gentlemen who listen and transcribe be on guard...it is the thoughts of their hearts that shall be revealed.                                                                                                           

                                                                                          -Soren Kierkegaard, Training in Christianity      

Whom do the people say that I am?...But who do you say that I am?...If any one will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                     -Lk9:18-23, MEV 

If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are out of the world, since I chose you out of the world, the world therefore hates you.                                                  

                                                                                                                                                  -Jn15:18-19, MEV 

My kingdom is not of this world.  -Jn18:36, MEV

Auternae Existent/Eternal Existents  

eternal-having no beginning or end; enduring, lasting forever, existing at all times.  existent-having life or being; present or real(as opposed to temporal-in time or space, earthly), existing now.         

-Eternal Existential Philosophy-         

// The Existential Way exists to show the absolute of Christianity from its inception as observed by Soren Kierkegaard's form of existentialism; the external perspective of what it is to be Christian. This comprises a bulk of the Existential Way. Now that we have covered this portion on what it is to be Christian, I've introduced through experience my perspective philosophy entitled Eternal Existentialism. This so, because I have found that Kierkegaard observed the cause of being Christian, true-self-indirect(eternal) relation to God as man(individual). To continue off of Kierkegaard's religious stage, I will elucidate upon the individual through description of a single experience(existent/s). This I believe has attracted me to the experience of the passionate inwardness of a internal constancy that desires the perfection of God-relation, moment by moment, making up the eternal existent/s of the individual and his/her experience.          

// Notice first that the perfection of the religious stage of Kierkegaard is not the construct of ideology of societal time and space given through physical form and structure unto this world; but given to the individual-being of spiritual essence/presence of time immemorial(always has been, always will be, as exhibited through momentary expression of right now). Auternae Existent delineates itself from Existential Christianity in this manner; Existential Christianity only exists to show cause of what it is to be Christian in all of Kierkegaard's observances, while Auternae Existent exists to ascribe the experience of the existent of the individual which has always been and always will be(eternal) according to existing(having being, having life, right now, presently) of the individual.         

// Heaven is a place of constant worship. The business of the heavenly realm surrounds the "Most High" with every breathing creature, being, spiritual form, directed to the worship, admiration, and praise of/to Him(Abba, Father, Christ, Lamb). So you say how may we know this? So I say, we know that for the fact that the Holy Spirit affirms with our spirit(individually, yet among like individuals) in a base manner of relation(consistency) with that of the eternal(or our eternal witness). The spirit of His eternal essence remains among us in like manner for like reception of His presence. It is our individual display of that which exacts the "leap of faith" which identifies each of us as His own, yet shows our individual uniqueness of his creation. Here is the most important example to the uniqueness of the individual...continuing support to why by this next example...         

// So you say why must each of us be unique in God's eyes? And so I posit this question. Can (a) true heavenly body represent Christ here on Earth?. Theoretically yes, but spiritually-eternally speaking, the point is being missed, because this is what happens. The individual experience is or has been replaced by putting faith into another/one man's experience. And so a body of believers is formed...and the oral traditions of this one man is formed claiming preeminence to God over your(individual) experience with God...and so the traditions change here and there, sects of bodies are formed off of that initial body, whole new belief systems are created. And so the indoctrination is laid on heavy ultimately from this one man's so called preeminence. And so one day you're in your church building, staying seated-not wanting to stand, not wanting to make any waves...you just want to tow the line, no longer realized of the fact that you lift your hands to praise systematic established control of your life instead of Christ.  So the holy spirit has left along time ago because it cannot remain with the untrue spirit of one's untrue-self, and then begins the persecution of the one true spirit himself(true-self) who wanting more is among a church body made up of untrue-selves. So you're in a church building with the likeness of un-spirit and there's many who make up the un-spirit congregation. If you never come to know that the religion of that one man(ecclesiastical church founder) was wrong all along in his desiring a church building of his own, you may never know that you could actually be persecuting the individual who truely knows his rights and wrongs, and stands alone in them before God to the suffering of their lawlessness. There is much to say about the body of Christ...hence, the body of Christ must come by the Spirit, by the spirit of one man's choice(daring to decide) before it could ever come in the machinations of the carnal beholding of anyone who makes up the crowd or church founders/fathers.        

// Now that we have expounded upon the carnal falling of man and his temporal inducements based upon the trepidations(fear) of the crowd, auternae existent must be the consideration of the one who chooses to be chosen; as to never become one of the crowd, yet to always hold to an austere presence toward the crowd all the while expressing his full human(god-man) capacity toward himself, God, and toward the individual mindset in general. He must express himself  in his eternal existent(eternal existence) in every manner as to having life and having being.                                                                                                                                                        

"Truly, truly I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."                  

                                                                                                                                                                -Jn3:3, MEV  

~To Not Choose Is To Have Chosen.  -S.K.                                                                                                                                                                  

Kevin J Meredith