So, how difficult is it to believe that our planet has a creator? And is it incomprehensible that the creator is still involved in our lives?
Let's imagine ourself in a creator's shoes. Note: Before you begin, it might help for you to check out the Scale of the Universe to get a clear picture of where Earth actually fits into the whole cosmos.
OK, now imagine that you are a spiritual being that exists in a spiritual dimension. You are the ruler of a spiritual kingdom. But you also have the ability to design and create physical matter. Here's how it works: You conceive the design in your mind/will, you speak the commands, and your power creates it in a physical dimension. You will to create a physical universe.
Within that universe, you create a tiny planet. Your plan? Develop a colony of new beings similar in many ways to you. You plan to lovingly guide them and lead them in the best ways to live on and enjoy the new planet. They know you as creator, king, provider, sustainer, friend.
You give them everything they need to thrive. You fill the planet with all sorts of interesting creatures and then begin to watch it bloom. They relax as you teach them, provide food for them, and provide guidance to them. They are free to enjoy full, responsible authority over all of the other creation. The new life and this new creation is truly good.
New to the planet, young, and understandably naïve, they are tempted (we won't go into that right yet) to believe that you are holding out on them; that the life you’ve provided is only a taste of what it really could be. Instead of trusting that you have their best interest in mind, they choose to investigate a life beyond you.
Now that was NOT your plan (theirs either as they soon find out). It was your choice to guide them in peace. Without following your guidelines about how things should work (like they had any clue of how things should work), corruption grew quickly out of control. Among the growing mayhem, people easily forgot the way you had intended the colony to be—a model of peace and love—like where you are from.
Eventually, you found one guy who’d listen. He remembered and acknowledged that it was your planet. You made it and you obviously know the best way to run it. Over time, you began to reintroduce the concepts to him and his children and their children. They were slow to learn. Very stubborn. But you stuck to your plan. You were patient. You loved them.
You gave them guidelines to help protect them from themselves as you were teaching them. Many still weren’t getting the big picture. They began to focus on the rules of protection instead of the bigger picture of how things should operate.
At the perfect time, you were able to send part of yourself to become a new, hybrid creation; fully creator and fully creation. Now, you could talk with them face-to-face about how things should have been and your plans for the future--both immediate and long term. Many recognized that it was you--in the flesh. Others could not believe it was you and were enraged. They killed the new creation that you had become. But your power of creation and restoration overcame that death.
More later...
Friday, February 2, 2007
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