Friday, January 3, 2025
Our version of creation is actually recreation. Everything you see that was created by human hands was, in reality, recreated or rearranged. My home, for example, is just a tree. It was made “out of” wood. Being made out of what is and what always was – that’s what the word begotten means. It emerged from itself. In an obscure passage in Matthew, Jesus said that the earth is a product of itself. How astute, but the Judeo-Christian worldview sees God creating something out of nothing. That’s not how the universe seems to work, however.
Out of the universe, the universe seems to come. The universe expands into itself. The only seeming distinction is that the observable universe and the unobservable universe seem to have a boundary. There is no “outside” into which the universe expands. Everything is expanding into itself.
In the creed we use words like God from God, Light from Light, begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father. That’s very telling but hard to understand. It would imply that there is no foreign substance, no alien, no waste. But the Christians fall short of saying Dark from God, Evil from God, Human from God. Somehow, they still promote foreign origins and that there is an absence of God from which “he” created the universe. That would beg the question, “Who created God?”
One day, we’ll realize our origins. In the meantime, people will continue to think they exist because their parents engaged in a sex act. They will justify their place on earth because of libido. At that level, their mom and dad “created” them. That’s OK. One day we’ll all realize what a false origin is and how ridiculous it is to say “God made me,” as if there is a difference between creation and creator.