Thoughts on Anything

[Phrogge]

1 August.

Monica:

“I believe in God. I do not believe God created the universe, mainly because I don’t believe anyone created the universe. If you have evidence of creation, I’d like to see it.

I believe in a God-of-this-world that has nothing to do with the sun and the moon and the stars. This is the God of which the scriptures speak. The LORD YHWH was originally a warrior God for the Hebrews. I don’t believe in a warrior God, either.

I believe in a God that resides within each of us, living and dying as we do, evolving into what we will become. Whether what we will become is ultimately good or evil depends, not on God, but on us.

I believe that God is as much in you as in me, and that neither of us has the right to deny that.

I don’t believe in a God that reveals the truth to one people or another. I believe in a God that whispers to us from within, calling us wordlessly to be more than we are, guiding us to be what we can become.

I believe in a God we might call Providence, that inspires us from within to choose good over evil, but that can’t control the outcome. .

I don’t believe God is love. I believe God can work in us when we love selflessly and can’t when we don’t. I believe that selfless love is the fuel that drives God’s engine.

I believe God occasionally finds a man or woman willing to love and to listen, and works through them to help us all understand and move forward.

I believe that Jesus was one such man and that there have been others.

I believe that those who listen to such people may try to capture the meaning of God for themselves, but never do. The meaning of God cannot be captured.

I believe God is beyond all knowing, but is instinctively known by those who love others more than themselves.

That’s all I’ve got at the moment. I’m still thinking. You should, too.”

[Jay Edwards]

One way of looking at this.

[Jay Edwards]

“I’m publishing an essay about theology and science, that begins as follows:

“Any fruitful dialogue between theology and science must take into account three fundamental ideas, admittedly more consistent with scientific method than theological. First, the driving force of human history is evolution; there is no credible evidence of another driving force. Second, evolution is not “going” anywhere; evolution is not moving us inexorably toward some final culmination (eschaton). Third, on the evolutionary scale, we humans, having arrived rather late, will almost certainly not survive much longer. Like countless other species, we shall one day become extinct, and the world will go on without us.
“To such a dialogue, theology would bring an extraordinary variety of stories and symbol systems and wisdom literature that cannot easily be reconciled either with one another or with science, but may point to something beyond evolution itself. That is the question both theology and science may debate.”

I wonder how many bishops will ask for copies….

[Jay Edwards]

Looking to see where this goes .

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