Eden Unbalanced (An Essay)
During a discussion, there arose the question of how to reconcile the suffering around us with the concept of a loving God. What if there was no special reason?
In a dream, a vision, a window opened, a glimpse outward, as though for a moment or two vision bound to here unexpectedly perceived there. And I saw:
In a dream, a vision, a window opened, a glimpse outward, as though for a moment or two vision bound to here unexpectedly perceived there. And I saw:
Eden Unbalanced
by Darrell G. King
In God, all things are possible and so evil embraces good, sadness dances with joy, the bright and the dark slide across the godscape in patterns beautiful and insane. In the multiverse all things are known and yet some must be tried in order to be experienced even though the experience is also known before the trying. Such is the way of infinity and so God, examining pain and misery, thought to try His image in a Concept bound to peace and joy, prohibited to suffering or hurt.
Eden is how we will say what He Created and this garden held one who was a true child, not the same for the absence of darkness but not so different, either. Life was celebrated, all were sated and yet none were hunted, sunlight and moonbeams washed over dancing forms beneath flawless trees atop perfect carpets of living mosses. Of course, this is only how it looked in the dream and I felt the reality would taste the same way, so this is how I will build my picture: an idyllic setting that would set itself outside the nature of things.
Balance is the way of God, however, and so the child, in part God itself, eventually came to notice that which was missing and then sought it out. The child reclaimed the knowledge of balance, of good and of evil in harmony. In learning it grew, but this was growth it was not designed to absorb and thus it did not become of God, but instead a sort of tormented potential of God. It fit neither in Eden nor in God. And so God made the Earth that the child could experience its turmoil in sufficient stages and manners that would not overwhelm its nature.
Forth walked the child into a new place Created with necessary structures under which it might learn to balance its Godhood. Adapting to the world, it became two and their forms adjusted to the rules of this material haven and multiplied, each new form of the same spirit yet pursuing answers independently, a doubling and redoubling of learning until they filled their classroom with the Quest. Each spark of life sought to understand, then brought what it gained back to the whole to be absorbed and to nourish growth until the child would be ready to step beyond the Creation and rejoin God.
Of course, this is but one way to tell the story and but one way in which Life can pass from one state to another. Of the many ways such things unfold, however, this is the one I was chosen to see and the one which I will tell of today.
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by Darrell G. King
In God, all things are possible and so evil embraces good, sadness dances with joy, the bright and the dark slide across the godscape in patterns beautiful and insane. In the multiverse all things are known and yet some must be tried in order to be experienced even though the experience is also known before the trying. Such is the way of infinity and so God, examining pain and misery, thought to try His image in a Concept bound to peace and joy, prohibited to suffering or hurt.
Eden is how we will say what He Created and this garden held one who was a true child, not the same for the absence of darkness but not so different, either. Life was celebrated, all were sated and yet none were hunted, sunlight and moonbeams washed over dancing forms beneath flawless trees atop perfect carpets of living mosses. Of course, this is only how it looked in the dream and I felt the reality would taste the same way, so this is how I will build my picture: an idyllic setting that would set itself outside the nature of things.
Balance is the way of God, however, and so the child, in part God itself, eventually came to notice that which was missing and then sought it out. The child reclaimed the knowledge of balance, of good and of evil in harmony. In learning it grew, but this was growth it was not designed to absorb and thus it did not become of God, but instead a sort of tormented potential of God. It fit neither in Eden nor in God. And so God made the Earth that the child could experience its turmoil in sufficient stages and manners that would not overwhelm its nature.
Forth walked the child into a new place Created with necessary structures under which it might learn to balance its Godhood. Adapting to the world, it became two and their forms adjusted to the rules of this material haven and multiplied, each new form of the same spirit yet pursuing answers independently, a doubling and redoubling of learning until they filled their classroom with the Quest. Each spark of life sought to understand, then brought what it gained back to the whole to be absorbed and to nourish growth until the child would be ready to step beyond the Creation and rejoin God.
Of course, this is but one way to tell the story and but one way in which Life can pass from one state to another. Of the many ways such things unfold, however, this is the one I was chosen to see and the one which I will tell of today.
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