Colossians: "Works Contract"

Works Contract: Collosians/Ephesians/Genesis/Mosaic law
  Within this narrative, creation itself is understood
as a kind of Temple, a heaven-and-earth duality, (body becomes a
temple of the HS) where humans function as the “image-bearers”
within a cosmic Temple, part of earth yet reflecting the life and
love of heaven.     Humans don’t simply “keep
moral standards” but “live” enjoying God’s presence here and
hereafter: to celebrate, worship, procreate, and take
responsibility within the rich, vivid developing life of
creation.     According to Genesis,
(literally reading the scripture) that is what humans were made
for.   The problem we humans have gotten ourselves
into, the “sin” that has exiled us from God, is that we have
rejected the vocation or purpose for which we were created — to
be God’s image in the world, his royal priests who reflect his
glory back to him in worship and into the world in faithful
stewardship — and we have turned from thus serving the living God
to worship idols. This has unleashed the powers of disorder and
corruption to enslave humans and the good creation and we now
essentially have turned God’s good creation of earth into HELL.
  - death is the intrinsic result of sin, not simply an
arbitrary punishment