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====== Christ Creator ... ====== | ====== Christ Creator ... ====== | ||
- | Thursday, Jan 11, 2019. What is giving structure to our world, to creation? Today we explore | + | Friday, Jan 11, 2019. What is giving structure to our world, to creation? Today we explore |
nature by natural sciences as well as engineering sciences. We describe the phenomena as result | nature by natural sciences as well as engineering sciences. We describe the phenomena as result | ||
of basic laws, which govern the dynamics of basically everything that is. These laws usually | of basic laws, which govern the dynamics of basically everything that is. These laws usually | ||
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to the random processes we observe. | to the random processes we observe. | ||
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- | ** Kindness, Humility, | + | ** Biblical View ... ** |
+ | The biblical view sees God at work in all creation. The bible does not have a problem with | ||
+ | structure or with natural laws. On the contrary! The bible is quite oriented towards the physical | ||
+ | world and all what is in it. But it is not only looking into the physical world. It is also | ||
+ | describing what is going on beyond it and it looks at the way it works from a particular viewpoint. | ||
- | + | The Role of Christ Jesus in creation is taken up at several places in the New Testament. | |
- | In 1 Kol, the apostle Paul writes: | + | One is the beginning of the gospel of John, another one is the letter of Paul to the church |
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+ | We have run into a quite far reaching text of basic nature. It is about very basic things, | ||
+ | going deep into our existence and life. At the same time, it is a highly political passage, | ||
+ | very important, very practical, questioning the role and purpose of authority. But let us | ||
+ | go step by step ... | ||
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- | ** ... Meekness | + | ** In HIS Image |
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+ | What is said here? Christ is the image of the invisible God. But more than that, he is "the firstborn" | ||
+ | of all creation. Let us sort that for a moment. Jesus was born around the year zero of our modern | ||
+ | time recording (potentially in year -4 or -3, this is debated by different authors). So in what | ||
+ | sense is he the firstborn? | ||
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+ | In the book Genesis (Mose 1), it is written: <color # | ||
+ | created in the image of God. In 1 Kol this is now said about Christ, and he is called born, not | ||
+ | created. | ||
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+ | The apostle Paul tells us the same that John tells us in his gospel. Jesus was there before creation. | ||
+ | He was the acting part of creation. All things were made by him or in him. Here, creation means | ||
+ | both the visible world and the invisible world. | ||
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+ | There is another aspect here: Paul talks about authorities, | ||
+ | They are also created, through him and for him. Authority is there, but it is created for him. We | ||
+ | all with our authority are made to work in his sense, in his spirit, in his image! | ||
+ | A final thought: he holds all things together. Are natural laws an active act of God? What is | ||
+ | keeping them active? What is making them work? To us, they are given, the fundament of our world, | ||
+ | of dynamics, of processes. They are all in Christ. | ||
+ | So let our day be what Paul writes: be alife in him and through him and for him. He is bringing light | ||
+ | and truth and mercy and love into it. | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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