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Surely such a natural religion can only end in one way? It must end with the attainment of that perfection. With us reaching the Divine. Clearly our human endeavours have not managed to reach it, our endless striving has gained nothing and perhaps made things a good deal worse in some respects. So if we are to become perfect again, if we are to reach the Divine; then it must take that original source of perfection to intervene. Or in other words, God has to do something.

Now what could God do to bring us back to that state of perfection? Well, I don't think the Jewish idea of a 'Messiah' going around killing a load of people and carving out an empire for them would have anything to do with having us attain the goal of our natural religion; which is becoming perfect, which is knowing and reaching the Divine. The pagan ideas of man-like gods, where the divine itself is flawed, surely cannot be the answer either. The muslims again focus on the carnal things in life, their heavenly rewards are myriad virgins to defile as they please, coupled of course with the destruction or conquest of other humans. What does this have to do with fulfilling that natural desire for the Divine, for perfection; that is inherent in all men?

Surely it makes sense that God would have to re-connect us to the divine. That source of perfection, from where the memory comes from; has to act on our behalf because we are alone are unable to reach it. And that is the story of Jesus. How God became Man to re-establish the connection between us and God. He died and was resurrected; death was conquered, the wages of sin paid, the fall reversed; now we can ascend. We have a symbolic rebirth in baptism, signifying that we are no longer tainted by the fall, that we are no longer unable to reach the Divine. Jesus is to be the new Adam. Through Jesus we can know our Creator; we can reach Perfection; we can commune with the Divine through the Holy Spirit. This is the Christian message; that because of Jesus we can now have a relationship with the Divine, that we can now reach the Divine, that we can attain that perfection which we once knew, but that was lost.

The natural religion which explains away all of Mankind's history is, in broad-strokes, the Christian religion.