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May 3, 2011
Cosmos1 from zeitnews.org
A New Cosmology
In the Old Cosmology, salvation largely became a kind of heavenly transaction that took place by your moral behavior, by belonging to the right group, and by having the right rituals. It wasn’t really relational. You didn’t have to connect with God; you just had to pay dues to God. You didn’t have to really love God at all. You just had to obey His commandments.
And God was totally a He in this worldview, which preferred a description of reality as not connection, but domination, despite Jesus. Our word for that is “patriarchy.”
In fact, we took an amazing amount of ammunition from one single line in Genesis that told us our job was to “dominate the earth.” (See Genesis 1:28.) Of course, if we’d recognized that we were created in the image of God and our job was to dominate the way God dominates, then it would be much more like nurturance and protection.
Adapted from The New Cosmology: Nature as the first Bible (CD/MP3)
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All things were created
in Christ
and by Christ
and through Christ.
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