🔎 What Is Emerging?

Research in psychology and neuroscience now confirms that human formation begins long before conscious belief or choice. Through implicit learning, people absorb emotional, relational, and behavioral norms directly from their environments. Systems theory further shows that once these patterns are established, they are reinforced and sustained through feedback loops within families, communities, and cultures. As a result, human behavior is shaped less by instruction or intention and more by repeated lived experience.

Social and emotional responses are encoded in the nervous system and stabilized by the surrounding social system. This means that belief and good intentions alone do not produce lasting change. Therefore, any institution that claims to shape human life—including the Church—must now reckon with this reality: formation is environmental, systemic, and largely unconscious. Lasting transformation requires more than teaching; it requires the deliberate cultivation of life-forming environments.

⚠️ Why This Disrupts Christianity as We Know It

Christianity has traditionally explained ongoing human suffering through the language of Sin. While morally descriptive, this explanation offered little physical insight into how suffering reproduces itself across generations. Today, this information is available. Modern research now fills that gap. Implicit learning explains how behavior is transmitted through environments rather than choice. Systems theory explains why those behaviors persist, intensify, or decline depending on how communities are structured. Together, these sciences show that what theology often labels moral failure frequently operates as generational dysfunction—biologically and socially reproduced even when no one intends it. Suffering persists not because people keep choosing it, but because current systems reliably generate it.

🌍 The Church Will Never Be The Same

From this vantage point, first of all, we must say, Jesus was misunderstood. The early theologians got it wrong not because his message was unclear, but because its systemic implications went unseen. Thus, His teachings were reduced to personal belief and moral aspiration, while their function as mechanisms for reshaping human systems went unrecognized... how could they know?

With this new understanding, we can see that Jesus was not focused primarily on what individuals believed. He was focused on how communities lived—how conflict was handled, how power circulated, how forgiveness replaced retaliation, and how love reshaped social norms. So, it becomes apparent, Jesus was addressing human suffering from a systems perspective.

In this light, we can see WHY persuasion and self-determination to transform is insufficient. The Church’s task becomes, first and foremost, to align with Jesus' recommended methods. The Great Commission, the hope for human peace and harmony, becomes clearer in its application. The community church role is seen in the intentional application of, and adherence to, Jesus' instructions whereby creating local environments whose practices model healing patterns and produce measurable human repair, i.e. the Kingdom of Heaven.

*Salvation and healing should not be seen as separate goals as they are structurally linked outcomes.

Allow this comment: as a person who is most familiar with dysfunctional living, it is my view, healing and salvation are exactly the same thing. For me, and probably the majority of the world, the vision of living in peace and harmony, represents the ultimate image of getting or being saved. Today, I KNOW what Jesus was trying to save me from. It is physical, it is real, and the pain never goes away.

Sounds like Hell, doesn't it? It should and to maintain ancient explanations as anointed, thereby untouchable, condemns every person born, into a form of living that Jesus came to prevent.

📜 Why Jesus Suddenly Exploded as Supremely Relevant

Seen through implicit learning and systems theory, Jesus’ instructions emerge not as abstract ideals but as precisely calibrated interventions aligned with how humans actually form. Teachings that reliably reduce violence, stabilize communities, and restore social coherence are not accidental.

When two thousand year old instructions map this cleanly onto mechanisms science is only now naming; we should anticipate a social shock, the likes of which, the Church nor the World, has ever seen. The world will be confronted with compelling evidence that Jesus walked with humans as He provided instructions that will solve the family disintegration, the generational dysfunction, and the mans' inhumanity to man problem.

That level of functional precision will be enough for any reasonable person to accept that Jesus lived among us.

✅ The Good News The Great News

What Christianity now faces is not collapse, but clarification. As science makes human formation visible, any theology that ignores how people actually change will lose credibility—not because critics will defend Jesus, but because outcomes will contradict claims.

When practiced as commanded—consistently, collectively, and as lived social norms—Jesus’ instructions interrupt the feedback loops that produce conflict, retaliation, and generational harm. They are necessary and sufficient to save our species from continuing down a path of mutually assured social destruction. Necessary because no alternative framework has shown the ability to reliably interrupt these mechanisms at scale. Sufficient because, when embodied within families and communities, they produce peace, stability, and social coherence.

Jesus’ teachings were not symbolic ideals or optional moral advice. They were, and continue to be, operational requirements for human flourishing. Practiced as instructed, they offer humanity a viable way out of this 'hell'—and establish peace and harmony, i.e. 'Heaven' not as a hope, but as a sustainable social norm.

🧭 What This Means for the Pastor

For the Pastor, this represents a decisive shift in role. The Pastor, however, will always carry the responsibility for the "wholeness" of the folks. It is in this regard, wholeness, can be seen in terms of functionality. The course Christianity took, now intersects with science, and clearly exposes a humanity lacking functionality along with the now obvious misinterpretation of the Great Commission.

As a result, now knowing the consequences of obeying Jesus' commands, a new understanding of the Great Commission emerges. The Pastor is to become a designer and steward of healing environments. Pastoral work will focus on helping the folks adjust to the new healing opportunities. Pastors do not have to become like therapists and learn approaches and treatment plans. They would preach Jesus' healing instructions foremost and in order to support those teachings, they would serve as proctors helping the folks navigate the courses and communities contained within this platform, until a better method is discovered.

In this role, the Pastor speaks directly to the forces shaping human life and offers something the world increasingly lacks: environments capable of producing social healing and lasting peace. A place Jesus called, "The Kingdom of Heaven."

👉 👉 What This Means for the Folks in the Pew and the Community of the Hurting

A growing understanding of human formation is helping us see familiar Christian words in a new and more revealing light. Many people in church have spent years hearing about sin, salvation, heaven, and hell in abstract or distant terms. Yet what most people actually live with is not abstraction. They live with anxiety, broken trust, family conflict, emotional wounds, loneliness, and patterns they never chose but cannot seem to escape. Seen through the lens of how humans are formed, sin is not merely rule-breaking. It is the accumulation of harmful patterns that become embedded in our bodies, relationships, and communities. It is what happens when fear, control, neglect, or violence become “normal” and quietly shape how people live.

In this light, the old view of salvation fails across the board. The view that a person, namely me, can be born into this world and suffer throughout, and somehow be happy that a better existence awaits me, after I die, does NOT resonate.

Salvation, for me, now that I have LIVED a better understanding of Jesus' Hell, begins with a life leaving pain and moving toward peace and harmony. Heaven, then, is much more than a place we might go someday. It is the experience of living in peace, safety, and mutual care. It is what life feels like when relationships are healthy and communities are grounded in respect and compassion. It is the human family functioning as one.

And hell is not merely a distant threat. It is the lived reality of chronic conflict, fear, isolation, and despair. It is what people experience when destructive patterns are never healed and suffering is passed from one generation to the next. From this perspective, Jesus did not come to change people’s religious status. He came to change the conditions under which human life is formed. He offered practices that retrain how people relate, respond, forgive, and care for one another. He addressed the roots of human suffering, not just its symptoms.

From this perspective, we might want to reconsider long-held assumptions about the nature of human life itself. The idea of reincarnation—that human beings may pass through multiple stages of learning and growth across lifetimes— seems to offer a more coherent explanation of why individuals are born into such different circumstances of suffering and opportunity.

As heaven and hell are increasingly understood as lived human realities experienced within this world, rather than only as distant destinations after death, reincarnation emerges as the most reasonable way of understanding continued human development beyond a single lifetime. It offers a framework in which growth, healing, and moral formation are not confined to one brief span of existence, but unfold across extended cycles of experience.

This perspective aligns with the observable reality that people appear to be living, here and now, in conditions that resemble “heaven” or “hell” long before death. It suggests that human development may be an ongoing process rather than a single, unrepeatable trial, and that life may function more like a long-form education in relational wisdom, responsibility, and compassion than a one-time test with permanent consequences.

So, what is the take-a-way? This means that church is not meant to be a place where people merely worship through song, pay tithes, and learn correct beliefs. It is meant to be a place where healing environments are created. Where people are supported in learning how to live with calm, honesty, and love. Where destructive norms are interrupted, not hidden, not kicked down the road.

For those who are loss deep in dysfunction, THIS IS THE GOSPEL; this is the promised good news of which Jesus spoke.