Author: Paul Edward Baribault

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Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781079981964

From its opening 'Our Brilliant Eternity' anchors its pages to words spoken by Christ two thousand years ago, that ... heaven is within, and all around us. It asserts that heaven doesn't just exist in some future time or place, but is present, now. Like the sports elevation referred to as being "in the zone", the book affirms in its prelude that there is a heaven zone, a parallel reality, one can physically experience here. And that once felt, whether for days, hours or even minutes, many questions about life disappear in the enveloping beauty of that phenomenon.Following this, 'Our Brilliant Eternity' unfolds its central premise, that life on Earth delivers an essential portion of the soul's climb, in its potential reach toward Enlightenment - and how our planet in this journey is a Schoolroom, not a courtroom - to which we return again and again, as we meet and re-meet each other and grow in stature and spiritual understanding. Across its eight chapters the book's Christian author is unwaveringly assertive, sometimes humorous, always firm in his challenges to questionable religious notions and doctrines.Independent thinking and unique chapter openings give harbor to this work, with some of the most poignant writing found in its Preface, where the author takes aim at the familiar teaching of One & Done Theology: That we have just one Earthly chance to save our eternal soul, and that this outcome is unavoidable. It is a human projection the author asserts and confronts with this irrefutable sentence: "What a hurtful tender would be the gift of free will from God's heart if, in its giving, eternal suffering for many souls was foreknown."These headings from the book's Table of Contents portray its gentle scope best: A Mountain Miracle and Remembered States of Beauty; The Merit & Equity of Reincarnation - and, conversely, the cruel unfairness of eternal confinement for billions of souls; on Universal Salvation and The Precision of Mercy; in The Matchless Chambers of the Heart; and, NDEs (near death experiences) and the New Age of Reason.In its thrust, 'Our Brilliant Eternity' joins other inspired books by Christian writers and clergy currently riding the surge of reform, that gives this traditional faith a more embracive and appealing image - affirming that a place in Heaven is, in the end, every soul's ultimate destiny.That everyone has a brilliant eternity, as a child of God: An assertion the author secures in these words from the Old Testament, also cited by the captain of his faith, the carpenter from Nazareth: "I have said, ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High."'Gloria in Excelsis Deo' are the concluding words to this inclusive and inspired work, as evidenced in its Appendix of God-given sonnets.