Immanuel isn’t a doctrine about where God is. It’s the recovery of reality itself—not more belief, but the restoration of the real—until “God as Reality” ceases to be a topic and becomes encounter: the nearest actuality, the active “is,” reality’s very reality, the Living God.
![Edward Erdinger: "The resurrection body is that consciousness of wholeness achieved by Jesus and deposited as a permanent addition to the archetypal psyche." F.F. Bruce: "Jesus became Immanuel - God with us - that he might forever be God in us." Through us, art, after Niffari.
John Paul II: “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it."
Painting of three interlocking rings with calligraphy reading,
Alive already.
Why look for God?
Here! Right here!
Emmanuel.
[After Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari: "Why look for God up there? He's here! Here!"]](/media/2002353827505451125-G8nKMawaoAA2HT_.jpg)
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Edward Erdinger: "The resurrection body is that consciousness of wholeness achieved by Jesus and deposited as a permanent addition to the archetypal psyche." F.F. Bruce: "Jesus became Immanuel - God with us - that he might forever be God in us." Through us, art, after Niffari. John Paul II: “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it." Painting of three interlocking rings with calligraphy reading, Alive already. Why look for God? Here! Right here! Emmanuel. [After Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari: "Why look for God up there? He's here! Here!"]
1/3 Where Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari asks, “Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!", Ernst Bloch identified the functional atheism of dominative Christian culture’s denial of the supernatural immediacy and power of the living God among us, right here, right now.