The Foundation

"In the beginning God created..."   That is how the Bible begins to explain the origins of our existence.  Along with the foundations of the physical universe came life.  (plant, animal, and human).  With that physical creation comes a countless number of foundational truths that tie physical creation together with emotion, and spirit.  We as humans are miraculously conscious at least in part to this design.  These rules  bring order and tie everything together to create a healthy ecosystem.  

We have an ability to manipulate this ecosystem to do amazing things.  Just as God created, we too have created micro-creations within His creation.  These creations many times have made us more productive, safer, stronger, and all together made life better.   As it goes with creating/inventing/exploring, not everything works out for the better unfortunately.  

While there is a lot of room for us to be creative, building something that is not in line with the foundational rules is a recipe for disaster.  Trying to create a device that goes across the water and you don't accept things like gravity, moisture, or propulsion you won't have much of a chance of success. 

Even worse is thinking we can tinker with the foundation itself.   Now, we have tinkered with foundations of houses and we have improved the design over time, but housing foundations are our own micro-creations, so we have some real understanding about how they work.  Or at least the experts do!  So, that makes since. What doesn't make since is messing with Gods foundation that he created.  We don't know what we are messing with.  Let's look at some of the questions we are asking:

  • Why does a man have to be a man, or a woman a woman?   
  • Why do we need "traditional" families?   
  • Why can't I just kill my baby if I don't want it?  
  • Why not walk into a public place and take people out with an assault rifle?

Why have some things been the way they are since the beginning of time?  We don't really know, if we are being honest with ourselves  We just know they are that way.  We know the Bible instructs us on how things work in Gods design, but it doesn't layout a detailed blueprint of the inner workings of every truth/rule/principle.   I believe it would impossible for us to wrap our heads around it.  We can't even wrap our heads around some of our own creations.   For example, the amount of dependencies, and interdependencies that are tied to the internet and various IT systems.   We have things happen all the time in IT, where something breaks and we don't know why it affects XYZ the way that it did, because we didn't realize that XYZ required something of that system to do what it does.   

If the internet and IT in general is baffling to us and we created it, how much more are things that God has established and put in place?   Things that are inter-related across time and space, and built into our DNA, and taps into our emotions and our spirit, that relates to other peoples lives and civilization as a whole.  Let's be real...   We don't know how it works!  I know with the amazing things that science and technology have done make us think we are god, but I have news for you; we are not even close to being God.  So, what part of taking a jackhammer to the foundation of our world sounds like a good idea?  Go out and hire the dumbest person you can find to build you a house.  That would be the equivalent of taking the smartest people to create a new foundation for our world.  

We have deemed the architect/creator of everything we know outdated and irrelevant while we roam around His creation without a clue how it works.  How absolutely crazy does that sound?  It sounds like something a 3 year old would do.  

Because we have tossed God to the side, we now are questioning literally everything.  We threw the compass and all other navigation out the window and we are trying to find our way without it.  As we pursue the sacred I believe we will find it embracing rather than trying to destroy the foundational truths that God established at creation.   My next blog will cover our first "ideal" and sacred institution.  "the family".

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Sacredness of the Family

The concept of the family is not a human invention. It is one of those things that has "just always has been".  It is even easily observed in the animal kingdom.  A human family is naturally created by a man and a woman having a child and caring for each other as well as the child.  That is the most basic definition of a complete family.  Over time their have been different expectations for parents, different styles of parenting, different expectations for children.  A lot of shifting has happened over the centuries that has matured, the idea of the family. Their have also been many times throughout history where the sacredness of the family has been lost, and the effects of that have been devastating.   In simpler times the family was an autonomous unit.  Each family had a tremendous amount of freedom to run their family as they saw fit.  In those simpler times life was not complicated but it was very hard.  The goal was to sustain life...
Read more

The Good, the Bad, and the Judgmental

 It is a common belief among Christians that we should give God the glory for what he has done.  It is not about glorifying ourselves or showing people how great "we" are.  It should be all about him and drawing all people to Him.   We do work with God though, so we do have a part to play.   The act of our "freewill" either has to give us some credit, or we have to say that we have no freewill.   However, the fact that we have free will is because of God.   It is an interesting topic for sure, and one that can make you go cross-eyed if you think about it too hard. :)    What I am thinking about today though is not about who gets credit for the good things, but how do we handle sin and who gets the blame for that?   The enemy is not the opposite of God.   That would make him far more powerful than he actually is, so we can't exactly flip what we believe on the good side of things to the bad and call it s...
Read more

Pursuit of the Sacred

 I have started this new blog as what I believe will be an outlet for my next focus.  I say "believe to be" because the term "pursuit of the sacred" is only a couple days old in my thinking.  Maybe I will reword it, or decide a slightly different path, but I wanted to "try it on" so to speak and see where it goes.    The thought of pursuing the sacred is something that excites me.  It is a heavy/difficult pursuit.  It is one that I don't want influenced by the popular culture, other than to look at current conflicts and to discover the sacred truth to know where I should stand on a topic.  I have a hunch that on most issues I will not be on one side or the other, but likely in some mix of the two, or possibly nowhere near either side.  At the same time, I can't really live in a bubble and God uses other people to speak into our lives.  I guess what I am saying is that I don't just want to follow some human reasoning and call it "sacred...
Read more