Lucy Masters wrote:
>
> Lucy replies:
>
> You asked for a suggestion. I guess I might start by posing the
> question: Is there any such thing as a creaturely process?
>
> For example, let's suppose I start working in the chemical lab at our
> local research hospital. In my spare time, I figure out the exact
> percentages of different chemicals which make up a fine glass of
> Cabernet. Further, I fuss around until I figure out how to condense all
> of the ingredients EXCEPT the H2O so that I'm left with tiny microdots
> of highly concentrated chemicals. I go to a cocktail party and tell
> everyone that I can "turn water into wine" just like Jesus. I fill
> everyone's wine glass with water, tell them to close their eyes, and pop
> one tiny microdot into each glass. Seconds later, they open their eyes
> to find Cabernet. Because I'm not Jesus, they wouldn't call this a
> miracle. They'd call it magic.
[Hammond]
You are a genius of course, for "out of the mouths of Babes
comes the truth".
Water is the universal symbol for spiritual knowledge, it is only
"spiritual knowledge" that Jesus added to the water pots at Cana
to turn them into blood red wine. So yes, indeed you could use your
laboratory prowess to turn microdots into wine by adding the spiritual
power of water.
>
> But more to the point, was God involved in this process? Well, to my
> way of thinking, God is involved in all processes. He provided me with
> the intelligence and energy to figure this thing out. He provided all
> of the chemical ingredients needed to make water into wine.
>
> Should the folks at the table think God was not involved? Was Jesus
> MORE involved in his miracle than I in mine simply because we don't know
> **how** Jesus turned water into wine? Further, if we DID know how Jesus
> did it, would it no longer be a miracle?
>
> So...I would like to entertain the idea that there is no such thing as a
> "creaturely process."
>
> Is my thinking skewed?
[Hammond]
Not at all, in fact I suspect you know what God is but are still stuck
with only the option of speaking in parables. What with the scientific
proof of God at hand, we can look forward to talking in scientific
analogies which are, thankfully, at least much more easily comprehensible
to the native mind than parables.
>
> Lucy
>
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