FROM CHAOS TO COSMOS TO CHAOS TO COSMOS.
Cycles
The world turns on cycles. I define a ‘cycle’ as a regular recurring event, that goes around and around, endlessly repeating its course.
Yes, everything turns in cycles: each day sees the switch from night to dawn to daylight to evening to night. Each month we see the moon in her 28-day cycle. Each year we experience the four seasons, or used to, anyway.
All these phenomena are so familiar that we hardly pay any attention to them: they are the built-in laws of nature.
There also are huge cycles. Take ‘religion’. It seems that every 500 years something happens there. King David initiated the temple service around 1,000 before Christ. The Israel exile to Babylon occurred around the year 500 BC, also the era when Buddhism emerged. We start tabulating our time from the year Zero, the birth of Christ. The year 500 saw the birth and rise of Islam. The Christian Church had its top monopoly in the year 1,000. Luther challenged that hegemony with the Reformation in 1,500. Now, around 2,000 all religions are under attack, most certainly the Christian one.
But.
There is one cycle that is never cited: ‘From Chaos to Cosmos to Chaos to Cosmos. That’s the longest cycle that runs from eternity to eternity, from the Beginning – whenever – to the End (Telos) – whenever.
That’s the one I want to dwell on.
While Cosmos indicates beautifully orchestrated regularity, Chaos denotes a gaping void or chasm, a formless primordial matter. The concept comes to us from the French, the Latin, originating from the Greek, hkaos.
The Bible starts with that Chaos. Genesis 1: 2 describes it as “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep.” Chaos personifies lack of order, devoid of meaning, without purpose or goal, directionless, serving no cause whatsoever.
In the Beginning.
The Bible starts with three simple words, ‘In the Beginning”. Yes, our world, the world we live in, love in, are born in, and die in, had ‘a beginning’.
Psalm 33: 9 describes the second stage: “God spoke and it came to be”.
That short phrase is beyond human conception. When we build a structure, many factors are involved: an idea, an elaboration, a plan, blueprints, financing, backers, implementation: all this may take years. But with God, 1,000 years is as one day. Imagine: “God spoke and it came to be!” All phases, every step, all stages, from concept to implementation, from scratch to completion, from chaos to cosmos, done in no time.
And then we came.
Then we came along, us, you, me. A long time ago, but now, in the last 200 years or so, when our CARBON age emerged, matters accelerated, speeded up out of control. Now, with Trump in charge, and the ‘heaven-oriented, earth-hating’ “Christians” in the drivers’ seat, events are in overdrive, hell over heels, racing towards God’s future. Yes, from Cosmos to Chaos. That’s what we now are witnessing.
The election result will send shockwaves through annual UN climate talks that start in Azerbaijan on Monday, November 11. The election of a climate denier to the US presidency will prove fatal for the world, thanks to organized religion, operating totally under the influence of Greek Pagan philosophy.
What?
Yes, Socrates, as recorded by Plato, welcomed death and eagerly drank the poison, sending him, supposedly, to a better world. Socrates believed that because of the immortality of the soul, death could not be evil, because to free the soul by guiding it to the eternal truths was the entire point of life.
Today we are witnessing the fulfillment of Socrates’ wish. The earth is seen as ‘evil’, as something to destroyed.
Never mind.
Never mind the Bible! Never mind Jesus’ death, dying to restore the cosmos, dying to conquer death. Never mind: John 3: 16!! For God so loved the world, the cosmos, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Never mind: John 3: 17: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Save the world!! That’s why Jesus came: To save the world. Personal Salvation and creational salvation go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other.
Just as the Old Testament Church killed Jesus because he offended the church-rules, so much of the heaven-oriented New Testament Church is killing the COSMOS, the world that God bought back through Jesus’ death.
From CHAOS to COSMOS to CHAOS to COSMOS.
We are coming full circle. History, church history, is repeating itself.
Must I conclude that Trump and his ‘Christians’ are the Antichrist?
Think about it.