Neo, Part Deux

Brian Andreas' Story of the Day seemed like a perfect follow-up to my brief thoughts on NeoAnything:

I held out my hands & asked where I could help & somebody grabbed me & pointed me towards the future & said, You've got your work cut out for you & I said, isn't there anything easier? & he laughed & said you could dig around in the past, but it's just busywork & that made perfect sense so I shrugged & started right where I was, along with everyone else

The fundamental question in this line of thought is whether or not you believe in evolution. The evolution of humanity, of consciousness, of thought, and of faith. I've said before that I believe that God never changes, but our understanding of God certainly should. Always moving forward, always expanding, always freeing God from the current box we've trapped God in, into--admittedly--another box, but at least a larger one. A trajectory of movement, of growth, of expansion.

If you don't believe that, then what you want is religion. Something fixed, rigid, unchanging and infallible. Until it fails miserably. Until it is so out of phase with the world around it that it either explodes and dies, or makes a sudden, lurching shift, a dramatic change in it's unchangeable tenets, then replants itself firmly in the ground as the world around it continues to move.

Comments

[Jon]

Yes. What you say makes so much sense. No Christian would ever claim to have it all figured out. It is common and good to desire personal growth. If a Christian publicly claimed they had it all figured it out and wasn't willing to learn anything new from God, that message would not be received well.

Yet church traditions and institutions don't always apply that same thinking. They are usually quite happy staying in the same place, doing the same stuff, and repeating the same truths.

God bless!

[idelette]

Probably my favorite quote of all time by Eric Hoffer comes to mind here: "In times of change the learners will inherit the earth while the knowers will find themselves fully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." As God-breathed people, may we always be the learners, not the knowers.