Bad cosmology does not necessarily mean no cosmology. Just because some or most of the saints have been wrong for three or four thousand years does not mean that God, however that reality may be defined, is not up to something other. If not heaven and hell, what pray tell?
Some of us
say that the total extent of what God is up to is only my present, my personal earthly
search for spiritual authenticity. With their
limited cosmology, the only goal afforded us can be measured with word salads like
the process of becoming fully human, expanded consciousness and autonomy. The God of Christianity is dead but we can
find happiness, they say, as solo souls of this redefined community of
believers.
In an
attempt to be fair and inclusive, there is an element of truth to this search
but these folk seem to assume that if enough of us apply this ballooned personal
spirituality to our lives it will unloose a truly loving world-wide, religion-less
community of all we human God believers. As they say
in Missouri, show me.
By touting the
personal spiritual priority these folk seem to deny or at least ignore any form
or activity of their God beyond their solo supposed salvation, however that may
be defined. Was the God of Ecclesiastes right, all is vanity? Speaking
personally, this one seeker needs a God bigger than just me. I am the ass end
of all believers but need a hope or a way of contributing toward a righteous
cosmology beyond this person.
Maybe death is
a blank space, maybe the place of darkness as envisioned by early Hebrew believers
is most accurate. Maybe the extending of
faith only in our time is enough. But maybe their vision as ours and many
others, are and have been at times shortsighted. The God of historical Christian orthodoxy
is dead but the mystery of God remains, now and forever.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
