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May 1, 2011
Cosmos1 from zeitnews.org
A New Cosmology
For what can be known about God is perfectly plain, since God has made it plain: ever since God created the world, God’s everlasting power and divinity, however invisible, have been there for the mind to see in the things that God has made.”
~ Romans 1:19-20
Nature itself is the primary Bible; the world “as is” is the primary locus of the sacred.
Notice that Paul is not saying that Revelation started when the Bible was written. No, revelation started at the moment of creation, what we now call the Big Bang; and the primary Bible is reality, what is!The written Bible has only existed in a nanosecond of geologic history, and a very small part of human history.
Do you really think God had nothing to say until the last nanosecond—that God was completely quiet until we wrote the Bible? And we did. I’m not saying that it isn’t inspired, but we wrote it, so we are more at home with something we wrote than with what God wrote in creation.
We are given a natural way to reconnect with God every day in creation. And it doesn’t depend on getting a degree in philosophy or theology. It depends on being present!
Adapted from The Soul, The Natural World, and What Is (CD/DVD/MP3)
Starter Prayer:
All things were created
in Christ
and by Christ
and through Christ.
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