Economy of Salvation

Only rare things are precious.

God took embraced finite form so that his salvific acts would have "real" value.
The passion: 3 hours of agony and a few liters of unspeakably precious blood, minted all the currency that will ever be used to "purchase us at great price".

Our limited time for com-passion, viewed alongside eternity, is the "gold tried in the fire" because it is the rare reality that physical fire-tried-gold was made to foreshadow.

Your acts are precious, because they will come to an end soon, and never occur again.

Salvation is God acting in you, without counting the cost.
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(in case of conceptual fire break glass.
this piece is a class IV speculative incendiary)

Economy?

Of all the words to associate with saving souls, among the very last to come to mind is economics. After all, God can make stuff out of nothing, can't he? What's the point of counting pennies, or whatever it's spiritual equivalent is when you could just whip up more of that omnipotent goodness and, BLAM, it's done?

Salvation?

Just how are humans saved? and from what? Life with God, is the answer to the first question, and "life" without God is the answer to the second. And if it sounds a little like circular reasoning, that's because it is, as anything to do with endless-beginingless-ness must. But, on closer inspection, that infinite circle can be broken down into some very finite links.

Salve ... matter?

Humans don't grow well in vacuums, which is why hell thinks and acts like one great big vacuum machine. Humans need stuff, thats what they're made of. The only thing is they're also made of, by, and for Spirit. Weird things, us, and only God knows what he was doing and why in fashioning us so. Not the point here. The point is that being made of Soul as well as body there's a finite and physical part that our salvation, needs.

What Price Salvation?

economics and infinity, open loops and weak links, matter matters (a very little whole lot)