That's been the whole forward drive of evolution- towards a creature that can understand the universe its a part of.
If--a big if one "believes" in process theology (and it is fun to play with the idea of God evolving through us), then it's just a small leap to think that, in the same way we wish as children to shrink down and be able to go inside our dollhouses, or see the world as ants might, God might want to experience the universe (this one realm at least) as those who inhabit it do.
Then, at the end (as we have said many times here), all our Vital Essence and growth is dumped into the great Energy cauldron, and is absorbed back into God, who uses it to learn.
Simplistic, I know. And probably wrong: more and more I am convinced that God isn't a pinpoint Being (like us), but all of this. And--to leap to Pantentheism--hopefully more than "all this."
I used to think, if God can make the universe, what ELSE (beyond imagining) can God do?
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Date: 2005-07-21 07:23 am (UTC)If--a big if one "believes" in process theology (and it is fun to play with the idea of God evolving through us), then it's just a small leap to think that, in the same way we wish as children to shrink down and be able to go inside our dollhouses, or see the world as ants might, God might want to experience the universe (this one realm at least) as those who inhabit it do.
Then, at the end (as we have said many times here), all our Vital Essence and growth is dumped into the great Energy cauldron, and is absorbed back into God, who uses it to learn.
Simplistic, I know. And probably wrong: more and more I am convinced that God isn't a pinpoint Being (like us), but all of this. And--to leap to Pantentheism--hopefully more than "all this."
I used to think, if God can make the universe, what ELSE (beyond imagining) can God do?
Is this it?