book planning

Musings about writing a book. Musings directed at the LORD, God Almighty, and the Son of God, and the Comforter.

The starting place: God, the Three, so loved the people of the world that the LORD gave His Son as a sacrifice to atone for the rebellion of the people, and whoever truly believes that this is a fact will not experience eternal death.

When choosing to spend time on writing, one must write what is uppermost in the mind's priority list. What is most important to spend time writing about? As I consider this choice now, because I must, I realize that by testing my thoughts for their relative importance, the fact of Jesus' sacrifice hits the top of the list. I must write about this first because in the constant human search for meaning, this fact is the one that all questions of meaning depend on. It is the only fact that contains unalterable and reliable meaning in this world.

As a fact by itself, unsupported by its context, the sacrifice of Jesus' life doesn't deliver meaning to human understanding. The context is a story, with a main plot and a myriad subplots. The life of every human being is a minor, but ever present, ever important subplot of the story of Jesus' sacrifice. The movements and developments of human groups, so difficult to define in history but remembered anyway, are the major subplots. The exposition of the story begins outside of this world and before its human history, and it ends outside of this world and after human history.

The story begins in "the heavens."