Sunday, April 2, 2017

Does God learn, delight in the chaos of constant change, or is he a static and all-knowing being?

Lesson Title:  Does God Learn From the Chaotic and Constant Changes Within Infinitely ever-expanding and changing Reality?

Do you ever ask if anything can delight or surprise God?

Change is the only consistent thing that we experience as we walk through each moment of our infinite existence.  Here is a thought: What will today's 20 year olds experience when they no longer can lug a large enough cellphone to see the screen?

Constant Change is Apparent in All of Reality, thus as God is Reality, God must evolve, and constantly change.

At this time in the history of our species we simply pray that people in their 20s will be allowed to live that long.  The 6th extinction that was rather fully described in the last part of both Catholic and the King James Bible appears to be occurring, with the likely death of most life on this beautiful shining blue planet floating in space so far and so alone as the only place in the universe we can actually survive within God's ever expanding infinite universe.

You see, the speed of expansion of the universe is so rapid, you would need to exceed the one limit that even Reality can never cross - the speed of light, and it would still take hundreds or thousands of centuries for any object to reach the nearest Star, which has no planets in any habitable zone.

The death of our environment is the greatest consequence life has ever faced on this planet since early bombardments of asteroids turned the entire surface into molten rock countless billions of years ago.

Let us Proceed in Faith:

Do you believe God knows all that was, is and ever will be, or does he evolve and learn and grow as we do?

Rabbis like Jesus referred to the experience of knowing God as "haMakom" - the awareness that God present in all that exists, Seeking the truth is to seek ha Makom:  "the Place" - the place where you are living at this and in every moment.  The awareness of this place is to experience a fullness of unity with God's will.

During the time of Jesus' practice of 1st century Judaism, the word God and the word for Reality were the same word.

If God is infinite, isn't it therefore true that virtually everything that exists is part of God? The 1st century Rabbis would say God, Reality is "the whole manifest in an infinite number of parts." 

 Jesus the Rabbi taught this - as it is apparent Jesus of Nazareth both practiced and was recognized as a Rabbi in the Jewish faith of the first century. 

Throughout Jesus' life and unto his death, he would have taught that Reality Which We Call God and he would have called in Hebrew/Aramaic Jehovah ("All That Is"), is not an abstraction or old man to be encountered after death, God is another way to express a simple thought:  all that exists.

The mission therefore of faith is to teach us to accept and embrace the tiny piece of the puzzle of God's reality that we are.  The illusion is separateness from the whole. This is what it means to be created in the "image of God."  We Catholics believe there is a tiny bit of the infinite within all human beings - what we call the Holy Spirit.

Jesus practiced and taught an early Jewish faith that believed God's image was reflected in every plant, every stone, every star in the sky.  Again, the illusion is separation, one from another, and thus separation from the living ever-changing and evolving image of Reality that is God's infinite presence at all moments in time and place.

Generally, common sense would indicate God/Reality changes constantly - why else would evolution and change exist?

Jesus practiced and taught the traditional Jewish faith throughout his life (it is always key to remember that Jesus' Last Supper was a Jewish Sacramental meal).  Jesus both lived and died as a Jew of his time and place.  He struck down the old laws, but followed and respected his culture and traditions throughout his life and prophesied death.

The reform Catholic Theology generally believes that to ignore the necessity to respect the old rules while establishing new traditions is to invite grievous errors of judgement, faith and action.


 

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