Hi there,
So yes, Jesus says the first will be last and the last will be first - does this apply to Evolution? (how can it not?)
Suppose you evolve everything, but One: does that One come to lead everything else that evolved? Being Evolved only for Evolution's sake, not a real reason?
I mean there is a sense in which we can pressure ourselves to be different than we are, but Jesus said worrying doesn't change anything - so the One that does not attempt to worry, ends up ruling the difference that made God's Creation strong: I mean you really can't be that Evolved, if you do not know what you are evolving for - and if you do not know you are evolving for God, then you don't know to evolve.
If anything, it takes compassion, right? A consistent pattern of compassion will evolve more, for this very reason! Where in history have we found that people have suffered for compassion, and have not come to survive in some greater way, in principle?
I would like to evolve more, but I just can't see an end to it - something has to be patient, something has to be chosen and something has to be compassionate: it has never been any different. The thing that most evolves, is the thing that keeps the pattern of God, whether it lives or dies. This is not suicide, this is commitment.
For some reason the exact dynamic of the commitment escapes me, but on the whole, my thinking is that this omission is more of a "trust God" thing, than a "devalue your enemy" thing. Where would you start if you did not have the trust of your enemies?
So yes, Jesus says the first will be last and the last will be first - does this apply to Evolution? (how can it not?)
Suppose you evolve everything, but One: does that One come to lead everything else that evolved? Being Evolved only for Evolution's sake, not a real reason?
I mean there is a sense in which we can pressure ourselves to be different than we are, but Jesus said worrying doesn't change anything - so the One that does not attempt to worry, ends up ruling the difference that made God's Creation strong: I mean you really can't be that Evolved, if you do not know what you are evolving for - and if you do not know you are evolving for God, then you don't know to evolve.
If anything, it takes compassion, right? A consistent pattern of compassion will evolve more, for this very reason! Where in history have we found that people have suffered for compassion, and have not come to survive in some greater way, in principle?
I would like to evolve more, but I just can't see an end to it - something has to be patient, something has to be chosen and something has to be compassionate: it has never been any different. The thing that most evolves, is the thing that keeps the pattern of God, whether it lives or dies. This is not suicide, this is commitment.
For some reason the exact dynamic of the commitment escapes me, but on the whole, my thinking is that this omission is more of a "trust God" thing, than a "devalue your enemy" thing. Where would you start if you did not have the trust of your enemies?
