INTELLIGENT DESIGN, UNINTELLIGENT MINDS

INTELLIGENT DESIGN, UNINTELLIGENT CHRISTIANITY


Where is the intelligence in the minds of the leaders of institutionalized, or "corporate" Christianity who insist upon fusing "Intelligent Design" with Science?

Never having been raised in any religion, my lifelong studies of the Bible are not colored by Catholic, Protestant or any religious dogma. The Bible's Message reveals God as the Creator of the Universe, and that He is the Invisible Mind and Spirit of Selfless Love. God, who is the Creative Power and Source of the Universe, has Mind and Spirit and, thus, Intelligence.

The "design" of all physicality and life, born of God's Mind and Spirit, is "Intelligent Design" indeed. But because there is no scientific, empirical proof of God, the religious or spiritual subject of Intelligent Design has no placement in a Science class.

Christians who refuse the evident fact that there is no empirical proof of God have forgotten the equally evident fact that believing in God is about faith. If there was empirical proof of God, then none of us would argue over God or have the need for "faith."

Many of America's high-profile preachers are complaining that it is unfair that Intelligent Design is not offered in Science classes to counterpoint evolution. Christianity's push to get Intelligent Design into the Science cirriculum is nothing but a 'smoke and mirrors' tactic to introduce the religious construct of Creationism as "scientific theory."

Christians who readily "buy in" to Creationism are blindly following unenlightened leaders with unenlightened explanations of scripture.

Christianity's most widely accepted interpretation of the 6 days of Creation is that each day symbolizes 1,000 years, making the Universe 6,000 years old. Why? Because of their literal interpretation of Second Peter 3:8, which reveals that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years."

Many Christian "Creationists" have chosen to use one Biblical verse to deduce that the 6 days of Creation equal 6,000 years. But isn't this absurd? After all, Psalms 90:4 reveals that "a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night." If we understand that 1,000 years is to God as "yesterday when it is past," then 1,000 years by God's perception is instantaneous. Using Psalms 90:4, we deduce that the 6 days of Creation was relatively instantaneous. After all, it's right there in the Bible!

Those who seek to understand scripture by the Letter of the Law will always fail. The Spirit of the Law is where the answer lives.

The 6 "days" of Creation must be understood by the Spirit of the Law, in this case, the Spirit of the word "day." By the Letter of the Law, you can reason that a "day" is a 24-hour period, a 1,000-year period (Second Peter 3:8), or instantaneous (Psalms 90:4). But the Spirit of the Law is about understanding the "meat" of the message.

By the Spirit of the Law, the word "day" simply refers to a relative cycle of time. Let us all agree that the 6 days of Creation represent 6 relative periods of time. Science now shows that our Universe is over 13 billion years old. This does not contradict the 6 days of Creation if you understand that the "6 days" are 6 eras of time.

It is obvious that scriptures offer deeper understandings than just what literal interpretations offer. Even Jesus Himself tells us that His Message requires eyes that "see" and ears that "hear." He is instructing us to look beyond the "surface of the message" (literal understandings; the Letter of the Law) into the "depth of the message" (spiritual understandings; the Spirit of the Law).

Heck... anyone, even a child, can understand words, phrases, and sentences literally. It is only natural to understand the literal meaning before the spiritual meaning. That is how the mind works. How can a mind understand the spiritual nature of a word if it has no idea what the word means?

Today's fundamentalists, particularly, are "stuck" in the Letter of the Law. They often speak of the Bible as "the inerrant word of God," and yet favor one Biblical verse over another regarding the 6 days of Creation. How can one verse supersede another if scriptures are "innerant?"

We humans are "creatures of the mind." Our minds are the ultimate "builders" of who we are and what we will make of ourselves in life. Be not deceived by "mystery," and do not allow others to teach your mind to deny Spirit for "mystery." The Spirit knows no mystery for those who "see" the revelations of the Spirit.