Work
By Junbals
@Junbals (1421)
Philippines
April 3, 2019 8:17am CST
I was intrigued about today's Gospel from St. Luke, where he talks about God and Jesus who have been carrying on their works until today. It implies that creation, theologically, is ongoing. God resting on the seventh day could be a misnomer.
Even contemporary cosmology affims that the universe has been ceaselessly expanding since the Big Bang.
Work is then the participation in the ongoing creation of God. This understanding of work is definitely far better than the idea of work as something tiring, hard, difficult and boring.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
3 Apr 19
'The Creation' didn't just happen in seven days. That is simply a poetic description made thousands of years ago and written down some thousands of years later by people who were basically herdsmen and farmers, not scientists. The interesting and, I think, important thing about the two creation stories in the Book of Genesis is that, even though they are poetic and highly simplified, they are essentially correct in the order in which things must have happened.
Modern knowledge of physics, geology and evolution has merely added to and 'fleshed out' the story of the creation of the Universe, our world and of the beginnings of life on Earth. It is only people who insist that the words be taken absolutely literally who have a problem with that.
Creation is ongoing, as you say, because all matter is constantly changing and becoming something else. You may describe it how you will: you may say that all matter is energy or that God is Love. The two things actually describe the same process.
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