Tue, Sep 29, 2009
Green Bible Mk1.1
OK...this time around I'm reading the Word through green lenses. I even got a green covered hard copy!
Beginning with Mark 1:1 I'll be searching for evidence of the "cosmic Christ" of Colossians 1:15-20 and the liberation of God's entire creation from its "bondage to corruption" (Romans 8:18-25).
If the world is to end in the Petrine flames of 2 Peter 3:10 - fine, whatever. But I cannot abide by the apocalyptic frenzy that cheers on the environmental holocaust that leaps of the pages of Revelation.
From day 1 human beings have been called by the Creator to tend his beloved handiwork. He set us into a garden - as compared to the wildness beyond - to demonstrate the beauty and abundance and life that coarises from a creation that exists in an environment of benevolant collaboration.
As I see it, another day 1 springs from the first verse of Mark. It gives verdent hope for those "east of Eden" that a second "in the beginning" has the potential of restoring paradise lost.
HOWEVER...having one foot back inside the gate of Eden means tthat we still have one foot out. I am truly looking forward to the day that creation doesn't have to groan under the weight of human pride and greed. But the promise of a new creation, does not suggest we abandon the old.
God is a recycler! He is into restoration. Redemption.
The gospel of new beginnings extends to all that God has made.
Beginning with Mark 1:1 I'll be searching for evidence of the "cosmic Christ" of Colossians 1:15-20 and the liberation of God's entire creation from its "bondage to corruption" (Romans 8:18-25).
If the world is to end in the Petrine flames of 2 Peter 3:10 - fine, whatever. But I cannot abide by the apocalyptic frenzy that cheers on the environmental holocaust that leaps of the pages of Revelation.
From day 1 human beings have been called by the Creator to tend his beloved handiwork. He set us into a garden - as compared to the wildness beyond - to demonstrate the beauty and abundance and life that coarises from a creation that exists in an environment of benevolant collaboration.
As I see it, another day 1 springs from the first verse of Mark. It gives verdent hope for those "east of Eden" that a second "in the beginning" has the potential of restoring paradise lost.
HOWEVER...having one foot back inside the gate of Eden means tthat we still have one foot out. I am truly looking forward to the day that creation doesn't have to groan under the weight of human pride and greed. But the promise of a new creation, does not suggest we abandon the old.
God is a recycler! He is into restoration. Redemption.
The gospel of new beginnings extends to all that God has made.
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