Its hard to improve on the metaphors in John ch 10...
Where Jesus stands at the door of the sheep pen and calls them all out(metaphorically).. into the pasture of Ps 23.. Ekkesia(church) lterally means the "called out ones".. History shows, some come out, some do not.. The drama of all this is pregnant...
Especially since Jesus never forbids sheep pens.. let alone vulture, vampire, pig, and goat pens.. The point being second realities as opposed to first reality.. The metaphor only deals with sheep pens.. but my mind can easily conjure up the other pens that humans frequent.. (implied, I believe)..
Oh, is that an understatement, dearest brother in Christ!
The Lord created men free — that is, fully capable of generating second realities if they want to. But that does not mean such men are exempted from the one single standard of divine Judgement that ultimately judges all men, whether they be denizens of first or second reality, equally and equitably in the End....
Thank you ever so much for writing, dearest brother in Christ — it's so good to hear from you!
Second realities would be very much like sheep pens except in one respect: the sheep can at least see the pasture. LOLOL!