Nothing disappoints me more than the reluctance of my Christian brothers to accept the fact that we are one race. It is disappointing to me because this teaching is so powerfully presented in the very book that they claim to their scriptures. It is as if the message of the Bible is incidental as far as they are concerned.
In the beginning God created the heavens (and the earth). I placed those parentheses because the contents are redundant; the earth is a part of the heavens. When it comes to the creation of man most miss the fact that there is only one creative act. God creates man from the dust of the earth; a commondity that was in plentiful supply. In that man there was both male and female, just as it is with every zygote that grows into a foetus and into an adult via infancy. We began as male and femal and each of us began our lives as male and female.
The point that most miss is the fact that God did not create the Woman. The creation of Adam was the last creative act in the Genesis account. The woman was taken out of Adam because she was a part of the man. This is why Adam declared, "This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh." Why do Christians have such a difficult time with such a simple concept? Is our desire for vengeance so strong. Is our "hatred" of those who do not agree with us so overwhelming? What is the problem with us?
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Nothing disappoints me more than the reluctance of my Christian brothers to accept the fact that we are one race. - DAL
This morning I was watching a segment on the tent cities in Seattle. One of the tents housed a couple – they were five months pregnant. It was amazing how much they understood about community and their relationship to one another. In some ways, their view of identity is less occluded.
What’s so startling is that 2,000 years after Jesus walked here we are still in denial about our relationship to each other. Even if we were transported to heaven tomorrow, we would still have all the forms that stem from our current dysfunction, because we have not learned what we need to learn.
This is encouraging news, because it means the paradise we yearn for is only a change-of-mind away. And this is discouraging news, because we are not changing our minds very quickly.
I wish we would train our children to be good humans before we mention anything about being good Christians. Of course, if we are successful in the former, we have already accomplished the latter.
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