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Consensual incarnation

NDE’s speak of our incarnation and our life mission as being agreed to by the individual, and held as a sort of contract or covenant. Such an agreement would push back our individual free will to a point within the person of Christ. Jeremiah 1:5, and NDE private revelations support this understanding.

This would be a situation of Christ asking a dimension of himself to consent to incarnation. Can a dimension of Christ make a meaningful free decision within the person of Christ? We recall that Jesus Christ made thousands of free decisions; these were instances of Jesus Christ acting as a free individual within Trinitarian Christ.NN The current community of persons who NN It is Catholic teaching that Jesus had a human body, soul, intellect and will, yet was also divine. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 464 states:

“The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human.

He became truly man while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man.”

Catholic teaching has the Trinitarian Son of God assuming, not absorbing a human nature. In practical terms, the Trinitarian Son of God retained his divine soul, intellect and will, while seamlessly but distinctly layering on top of this, a human body, soul, intellect and will. At its core, Jesus Christ’s wil was divine and incorruptible, this was proven after the last supper, when the sins of the apostles, (who he made communion with), had a corruptive effect on his human will. Jesus was in agony, but could not be in sinful or even imperfect consent. Likewise his human intellect falsely thought, “My God, why have you abandoned me?”.

Why was the humanity of Jesus not corrupted sooner? Because it was 50

make up Christ as the body of Christ did not lose their individual free will, they now exercise it as dimensions of Christ who exist within Christ.

As an individual proceeds from an internal dimension of Christ to incarnation as a human person, that person is given a mission for his life, (see Jer 1:5). Furthermore, out of justice God obtains our consent to be incarnated. Our human free will begins with our consent to become free humans. If we are to make truly free acts in our life, we must be free first in choosing life.

The idea of consent for incarnation fits the human model much better than the unsupported idea that we are incarnated without any consent. God’s own ideal of human free

will demands our consent. The idea of non-consensual incarnation is a prevailing, vague, unstudied and unsupported teaching, and it must go.

Sarah B. was given a Heavenly lesson in love by three light beings, who reminded her that she had freely chosen to incarnate on earth; “They reminded me that I had chosen to be incarnate on Earth and that I had to go back. I already knew that, being by their side. Everything was coming back to me. They gave me so much love. I was at home and I badly wanted to stay.

only at the last supper/first communion that he contracted sin, from the apostles and all of humanity who he attempted union with. Jesus took on their virtues and their sin, which he mediated into his own virtue at Gethsemane and on the cross...union with God! This is the sin that Christ first had to deal with before making union with humanity. Union, not sin, was God’s original plan.

In a related matter, Mary (who never suffered sin), was also free of its effects. She attained growth and perfection, at perhaps age 33, and never then never suffered the ill effects of aging. Mary is a 2000 year old woman who maintains the appearance of a 33 year old, or perhaps even the appearance of a teenager, which was her age of union with the Holy Spirit at the annunciation.

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I didn’t want to leave, but I had to go back. That’s how it had to be. I remember laughing a lot with them. They understood me.

They knew the difficulty of an incarnation, as well as I knew it before I incarnated on Earth. ”34