JBP & A Speck On A Speck

JBP & A Speck On A Speck


This is what makes life really interesting, so interesting that one hopelessly hopes to live until all full truth is finally found out. The Big Bang http://fw.to/YqZ5szC. What was before the Big Bang, before our tiny dot, our microscopically subatomic speck, instantaneously exploded into the enormous universe that we see and know and that now, 13.8 billion years later, is still expanding? We come from inside that tiny dot, and are still within it. We must step outside our tiny dot for a look round to see that our tiny dot was just an infinitesmally tiny speck in what already was, an infinite cosmos beyond human imagining. No mere universe, a megaverse of multiverses eternally bursting into being and giving us a glimpse of eternity, infinity?

 Multiverse is hardly conceivable to the human mind. The word cosmos is pathetically inadequate; we need a new Word that totally blows the mind. Or a new tune, new music, a new song to a new tune with colors and sounds never before heard or seen.





In 1961, English clergyman and Bible scholar J. B. Phillips (1906-1982) published Your God Is Too Small a book whose title is infinitely profound. The Deity whom we call God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ seems anthropomorphic because that's the best we can do, familiarly human in concept and in our human perception; was (not to say created and formed) discovered, encountered and perceived by humans in the most primitive circumstances imaginable, and has been set in concrete by creeds and defined loftily by theologians who seem to sit and write in dark little rooms without ever looking up at the night sky, who think as small as JBP charges. 

 Our God is too small. Were This One Elohim continually met, imagined, imaged, rediscovered, but not defined, in light of expanding science and exploding knowledge, what a mighty God we would serve. 

 Revelation is evolutionary. If God is unchangeable, our understanding of God is not unchangeable. We resist ongoing revelation to the desolation of faith and the Church. 

Every scholar majoring in theology should minor in cosmology. Perhaps vice versa.

Perhaps we already have that Word. RSF&PTL.

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