Some Christians are adamant in the belief that we cannot receive salvation by doing good deeds. They proclaim, as the Apostle Paul intimates in his Letter To The Ephesians, that God's Grace is a gift that cannot be earned.
The Truth is, The Apostle Paul's Letter To The Ephesians notwithstanding, we cannot have an intimate cosmic relationship with Creation by doing nothing. We certainly cannot have an intimate relationship by doing what displeases Creation.
If you want to have an intimate relationship with Creation and reap both the mortal and eternal cosmic gifts and rewards of that relationship, then the moral integrity of your life must please Creation.
In his Letter To The Ephesians, Paul said: "Servants be obedient to them that are your masters, according the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; Not with eyeservice, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart."He follows this statement with directions for "master" in treating their servants.
The literal translation of "servants" is this Letter To The Ephesians, is Slaves. The Apostle Paul affirms that slaves should obey their masters with fear and trembling in reality and sincerity and not hypocrisy. Does the line, "but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart" suggests that slavery is the will of God? Or is it more true that a God of Love does not condone the slavery of any of Creation's children by any of Creation's other children? And that Creation love does not require any of Creation's children to accept and enjoy the live of a slave?
If you want to have an intimate mortal and cosmic relationship with Creation, you must live a moral life that pleases Creation.
We cannot have an intimate relationship with Creation by doing what is morally displeasing to Creation. So what is it that we must do? The Covenant Moralities affirm that what we are and what we think and feel is our link to Creation-a moral link that gives us existence and life within the existence of Creation. Our spiritual character and our behaviors manifest our morality.
If you want to to secure an intimate relationship with Creation and live as a source of life within Creation, you must exhibit the moral character, disposition, and moral behaviors that lets you form a spiritual bond with Creation. The forming of a spiritual bond with Creation insures the existence of a cosmic intimate relationship with Creation. But the manifestations of a fake or damaged morality estrange you from Creation, and promote the pain and unhappiness Creation's absence in your consciousness produces in you.
We must choose one kind or moral life or another. If we choose, we can live by a morality that creates an intimate bond with Creation that release the grip of pain, anger, and fear in the human survival psyche. Or we can choose to engage in the rhetoric of a false morality, with lip service that only estrange us from the rewards and gifts Creations reserves for those who embrace the covenant of a New Morality.
If we desire intimacy with Creation, The Covenant of a New Morality help us make the spiritual and behavioral choices we need to heal our mortal survival psyche, have the cosmic relationship we covet with Creation, and know the feeling of true happiness we desperately seek.