We must address our personal cosmic vision first and foremost. We need to understand the assumptions we have made as we internally constructed our definition of both reality and, if we are spiritually inclined, the spiritual world.
In a very powerful subconscious way, those who practice a Christian religion do so with an internal image (something imagined) of that spiritual reality not seen but that we believe exists; the very reality where God "is", where Jesus "is" and to many, where Satan "is" or "wants to rule."
For many Christians, this imagined reality readily assumes a male-dominated patriarchal "order of things."
In mortal or human terms I call that internal image of the spiritual world upon which we have based our Christian religious foundation a "mental construct" - a perceived spiritual reality.
That reality - what each of us personally has imagined the spirit world and/or realm of God to be- serves as the context for how we combine our mortal practice of religion with our understanding of God and Jesus.
Although for all or most Christians the realm of God truly exists, we do not all agree on what that existence means or how it impacts our lives. For many Christians, the spirit world exists in some other dimension and interacts with our own world in supernatural ways.
This is consistent with a view of a purely supernatural, all-wise, all-knowing and almighty God who some times intervenes in the affairs of mortals in dramatic or not-so-dramatic ways. These believing Christians easily accept and live according to the idea of an invisible Jesus/God personage who is vitally invested in human life and directs forces of good against the other supernatural power and source of evil, Satan.
Others do not see the supernatural Jesus/God as a personage who exists "somewhere else" and as someone outside the sphere of mortal perception and who communicates spiritually from a distance through the Holy Spirit. Taking a cue from Jesus' words, "The kingdom of God is within you," they have a sense of God being omnipresent and an on-going constancy in which the Holy Spirit is an uninterrupted and steady influence toward good works and a desire to live, for example, the Golden Rule.
