1. SCRIPTURE – KEY TO THE FUTURE

Chapter 12 Conclusion

At the outset of this book, I drew the analogy of the court of law before which the two witnesses of the Hebrew and Apostolic communities were testifying. The nature of the case is one in which the global human community, facing a threat to its existence, is having to make a judgement as to what course of action will save it from destruction. There are many parties advocating for judgement in their favour.

The dominant party to this point in the case is the advocacy of a materialistic ideology that excludes all spirituality and locates the sole instrument of salvation in human rationality, that rationality strictly confined to physical causality.

A second party of advocacy, strongly but not exclusively represented by a section of the Christian Church, advocates that all our problems lie in the abandonment of traditional values and beliefs, for which abandonment the world is being punished by God. The path of salvation lies in a return to the old ways. An element in this party's advocacy is unconcerned about the very crisis itself as being something of no real significance.

Strongly allied in this last party but in radical disagreement is the advocate for Islam.

Then, on the other side from these reactionary Christian/Islamic advocates is the Christian community in its open state. It is this community that is advocating the witness of the Hebrew and Apostolic testimonies as witnessing to the power of grace to transform the world with the hope that takes it through the loss of everything, even its every conceivable grounds for hope.

What is remarkable about the community that advocates this is that, in its very advocacy it becomes the ground of hope for the future. The paradox of this analogy is that the outcome does not rest at or on what judgement the world comes to on this matter. Certainly, if the world does hear the advocacy of the Christian community it may well avoid the worst of the crises coming up on it. The message is one that bears salvation.

Yet even if the world is a does not hear or outright rejects the testimony, the future of humanity will rest in and with the salvation community simply because it has heard and responded to the testimony. The witness of the Hebrew and Apostolic will not fail humanity or us.

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