And if it is ever over, what shall be the result of it all?
How much time & energy has been put into this theological area that somehow receives such a great deal of attention and could matter so little . In 70ace the world for some was effectively coming to an end and they "believed" . One thousand years later , people were scrambling to give away all their possessions to the church for the "End" which they had decided fervently was to come .
I think that essentially in the rawness and reality of this rolling vast Universe at large , there is no ending ...nor would imagine a God that would be so inclined to do something so obvious that would please our limited minds & childlike fantasies . It would be more akin to the spirit of any such vast Being to be able to confound us even once again by revealing at the last -->there was no beginning nor will ever be an ending to it all . The first purest impressions are sometimes the most revealing where you have the earliest reflections of the Hindu sages & philosophers that percieved a world in constant change and a universe having no beginning or ending in one sense , yet being created and undone every single moment . Where the Jew imagined a world numbering only generations of men , the Hindu sages saw the world in terms of ages of one cycle of the universal overmind "Brahma" , calculated today still roughly equals some 4 1/2 billion yrs .
Often the simplest purest analogy sometimes that comes to our minds in deepest reflection comes closest to what may be true . Probably a truer model of the Universe is that of a great tidal ebb and flow that is infinite . Modern physics which so few people really know , supports this kind of view . But nothing theologically is upset one way or another , the same challenges remain for us whether a beginning or not , we still are left with our own local sphere in which to manage and front yards to keep clean and tidy .
But it was only a century ago there was still child labor & widespread poverty not to be believed even in America.... so much racial hatred & ignorance both here and abroad leading to the great Wars that produced some of the bravest responses by some fantastic thinkers who prompted us to look hard and fast deeper into the mystery of why such things still fill the minds of human beings towards each other with such miraculous invention and technology which could free almost all. The advances made in anthropology revealing the kinship all men share , etc...the miracles of medicine and the beauty of those healers that are still always with us in the world , to give thanks for .
The Greeks and that world at the time gave special thanks and built many temples to Asclepius son of Apollo for centuries .... who as a mortal and crucified but later resurrected , because he chose to use his healing powers to bring people back from the dead against the laws of God . But God forgave and adopted him in the "end" making him an immortal .....nice story and true . Healers are some of humanity's most valued treasures across all distinctions , religions , races , nationalities etc ...and still to this day some of the finest people universally any of us can know.
lucky us huh ?!?;-) |
