Hi there,
So I want to be careful I don't confuse you: I am talking about something that contradicts survival of the fittest - viz, the idea that an organism inherits only what survives. The principle is this: if there are two equally strong parents, the Evolution of the child inherits the past adaptation of instinct pertaining to the species. Like if you are choosing a car and you see two models and you want to choose the cheaper one, but then you see a really expensive model and you decide you can choose a more expensive model, just not the most expensive. This principle affects Evolution.
Evolution is only as desireable as its next adaptation; if parents kept being strong two by two, eventually it could be said that none of the species had died - since all the original members of the species had been brought back, on the effort of the parents since their time. This makes evolving for the sake of your species easier and making it easier means it will more likely survive, if it can pull off the exchange consistently. This is what it means when we say following Jesus, will mean we can live forever: we can live knowing that our children will desire us as children, when it is time to have theirs, not of our own accord, but of God's - that dwelling with God may increase.
The point being, dwelling with God makes creativity more possible, so not only do our children desire us as their children, they desire to share God with us, as we once did with them. This is a threefold cord when you consider that what killed us in a previous life, can be identified in a later life, as that which had killed us, but now can not - it becomes possible for us to identify the Devil, as he was when we were previously alive, for example. The point is, we choose greater sacrifice when we realize we can do more than we initially gave ourselves credit for. If this were not the case, our only defence to the Devil would be to run!
So Evolution, as I understand it, is decentering in the sense that without familiarity of the species, it appears that change is distracting a given species from the species it could be, whereas the fear of God (the pricier option) centers a species on how great it could become if its members were given a second, third or fourth chance to evolve - literally the more chances to evolve given, the more "by design" Evolution would become.
The amplifier of this is of course instinct, the more familiar an instinct is, the more powerful it becomes, so we learn what our parents knew, at a greater rate - we can learn the rate at which Evolution is operating at, even. You might say "well let's forget Evolution!" but it is not that simple: at some point the weakness of the flesh has to cede to a lesser becoming; its not possible to just revert to a past generation forever, something has to be ventured and something gained. So there are some species that are more suited to later versions of Evolution and some earlier versions of Evolution, which is a choice that equally strong parents give - when they lead the child in which they should go.
So in essence what I am saying is that a path needs to be guided between the way of the past, the life of the future and the truth of the moment - you may be familiar with these words, they were the words of Jesus about Himself (I am the way, truth and the life, no one comes to Father but by Me - John 14:6)! In other words, Jesus is the model of the way to relate to Evolution as a man under God, for purposes only God knows - this is the mystery of it, that we do not actually have charge over one another's Evolution, until at least we confess our sins and possibly defer to the Holy Spirit.
The lesson for me in this, is that Evolution can be mastered, a life that has already died to a sin or a predator or a trap, need not keep dying to it in future lives!
So I want to be careful I don't confuse you: I am talking about something that contradicts survival of the fittest - viz, the idea that an organism inherits only what survives. The principle is this: if there are two equally strong parents, the Evolution of the child inherits the past adaptation of instinct pertaining to the species. Like if you are choosing a car and you see two models and you want to choose the cheaper one, but then you see a really expensive model and you decide you can choose a more expensive model, just not the most expensive. This principle affects Evolution.
Evolution is only as desireable as its next adaptation; if parents kept being strong two by two, eventually it could be said that none of the species had died - since all the original members of the species had been brought back, on the effort of the parents since their time. This makes evolving for the sake of your species easier and making it easier means it will more likely survive, if it can pull off the exchange consistently. This is what it means when we say following Jesus, will mean we can live forever: we can live knowing that our children will desire us as children, when it is time to have theirs, not of our own accord, but of God's - that dwelling with God may increase.
The point being, dwelling with God makes creativity more possible, so not only do our children desire us as their children, they desire to share God with us, as we once did with them. This is a threefold cord when you consider that what killed us in a previous life, can be identified in a later life, as that which had killed us, but now can not - it becomes possible for us to identify the Devil, as he was when we were previously alive, for example. The point is, we choose greater sacrifice when we realize we can do more than we initially gave ourselves credit for. If this were not the case, our only defence to the Devil would be to run!
So Evolution, as I understand it, is decentering in the sense that without familiarity of the species, it appears that change is distracting a given species from the species it could be, whereas the fear of God (the pricier option) centers a species on how great it could become if its members were given a second, third or fourth chance to evolve - literally the more chances to evolve given, the more "by design" Evolution would become.
The amplifier of this is of course instinct, the more familiar an instinct is, the more powerful it becomes, so we learn what our parents knew, at a greater rate - we can learn the rate at which Evolution is operating at, even. You might say "well let's forget Evolution!" but it is not that simple: at some point the weakness of the flesh has to cede to a lesser becoming; its not possible to just revert to a past generation forever, something has to be ventured and something gained. So there are some species that are more suited to later versions of Evolution and some earlier versions of Evolution, which is a choice that equally strong parents give - when they lead the child in which they should go.
So in essence what I am saying is that a path needs to be guided between the way of the past, the life of the future and the truth of the moment - you may be familiar with these words, they were the words of Jesus about Himself (I am the way, truth and the life, no one comes to Father but by Me - John 14:6)! In other words, Jesus is the model of the way to relate to Evolution as a man under God, for purposes only God knows - this is the mystery of it, that we do not actually have charge over one another's Evolution, until at least we confess our sins and possibly defer to the Holy Spirit.
The lesson for me in this, is that Evolution can be mastered, a life that has already died to a sin or a predator or a trap, need not keep dying to it in future lives!
