So we Christians
have lost our universe-created-in-six-magical-day
creation.
We also, hopefully,
have lost belief in literal demons and devils, a direct connection
between all
suffering and sin, a God who is subject to extreme fits of
anger to the
point he wants to
wipe out every human being (Noah's Ark stuff).
I read a wise few
words recently. Our big problem in accepting the
new and liberating
is our adherence
(super glue) to the norms and beliefs of the past.
We just can't let
go gracefully.
I mean the kind of thinking that since some sage 5000 years ago
thought homosexuality
is unnatural (it permeates a lot of the animal kingdom),
we will surely Judas
God if we even talk about the "evil" act. So
in modern times
not-so-modern
Christians have a great deal of trouble dealing with
the real world
which Christian
or not has learned to live with the homosexual. And if
God didn't
create him/her that
way then nature did. So who to blame?
In my experience
when we, tied to God through Jesus, abandon the mistaken
concepts of the
Godly of yore, we move into a new and richer life
where we
can fellowship and
converse with other humans regardless of their faith or lack
of it.
So we abandon
the Genesis accounts of creation. We still have God and
we still
have the wonderful
revelations of science which we can, at last, relate
to our
experience of God
as creator (Ground of Being). The dynamic complexity of
the universe (elegant and complex) leads even hard-bitten
atheists to sometimes wonder
if this mysterious
and odd existence is the expression of some supermind.
And take DNA.
The life we see around us plants and animals
and microbes are
all the expression
of basically four chemical compounds strung together in various
combinations to
form the famous double helix. Tigers and butterflies
all variations
on the universal
DNA theme. Elegant, beautiful, and yet capable
of creating
complex creatures
to the point where, after millions of years, the DNA finally
creates a creature
that not only understands and maps it but then, in short order,
begins to manipulate
it to ................
So lets not
stared at the half empty bottle when we got a full
jug on our plate. The God who created DNA and black holes
and quasars is surely worth a million of that 1st Genesis
bearded clown in the sky. And the fifteen billion years of
creation so far points a little more clearly to infinity
than a six day magic wand act in Eden times.