[transcription from the first message of our fall series at un'ed.i.ted spirituality]
Wikipedia – as far as I’m concerned, is the final store of all human knowledge
It is the intellectual equivalent of a flash mob for me
Hundreds upon thousands of individuals contributing their part to a story bigger than any person could write on their own
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I had an interesting conversation with Matt (works at Westside) a couple weeks ago. Some of the ideas floated into my message last weekend but definitely weren’t completely developed or (truthfully) ready for primetime.
The conversation centered around the fairly weighty topic of the meaning of life, or more specifically the purpose of life. What are we here for in terms of our relationship to our creator? Classically the church has answered that with any number of variations on the theme of; humanity exists to glorify God.
But that got me (and Matt, sorry to implicate you in my wonderings) wondering about what that does to the character of God. At some level the idea that an omnipotent creator would create for the sole purpose of having his creations praise him does seem a bit narcissistic. Almost as if God was feeling a bit unsure of himself and needed some positive reinforcement. Though, I suppose that, if anyone in the universe could be excused for a sense of narcissism, it would be God.
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Oddly, it came up in conversation at breakfast this morning. (then again he always knew it would) Not your usually morning fare but of late it seems to be a familiar point of discussion. (or perhaps he didn’t)
The question specifically, did God already know that my Eggs Benedict would be overcooked, almost dry, even before the chef rolled out of bed this morning, perhaps even before the proverbial chicken or the egg. The question in general, which is entirely more enticing than my eggs, is, does God know the future and then if that is true what does it mean for God to be outside of, or unaffected by our concept of time. Strangely of late I have entered into this same query in a number of conversations. Each time becoming more and more convinced that the standard response; “of course”, as most standard answers are, is entirely a product of its familiarity rather than its utility.
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