A Spiritual Perspective of "Genesis"

 

 

According to the Christian Bible, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." That's how it all began. Our physicists say that this original creation started with a big bang.
This theory says all that we know of in the physical universe exploded from some form so dense that it contained all the elements of this physical universe in a very small space, relative to what we define as small in our relative world.
This explosion, which happened billions of our years ago, sent out into the nether (neither this or that) all that is. This "all that is" kept expanding, and is still expanding. It has evolved into galaxies, planets, stars and all forms of physical and nonphysical stuff that we know of today as the universe.
We can accept this creation theory because we know we are physically here. Our physicists have been able to document this theory, so for the purposes of this discussion we will accept it. We have a physical body that resides on the physical planet earth. The big questions are "Who is responsible for what happened?" and "Why did all this happen in the first place?"
These are the essential questions to be answered by people seeking clarity on who they really are. By answering these questions we can gain insight (that is, going within, sight) as to what we are doing here and what our purpose is. This is "Nuts and Bolts Spirituality."
Who is this grand designer? The architect of form and function, who ultimately answers for not only our humanity but also the paradise we live in, the air we breathe, and the cosmos that houses our little portion of the "all that is."
This source, this creator, goes by many names. She does not like to be confined by labels because he is all things (neither male or female, but both male and female, and all things in between). For the purpose of this discussion we are going to call her God. You could just as easily call him life, or you could call her love, because they are all interchangeable-God, Life, Love, the universal source of all that is.
Now God, being the source of all that is, is just that. God is "all that is" and because all that is is everything, "there is nothing that is not God." This is an absolute and is the realm from which all things come.
Because God lives in the realm of the absolute, he knows conceptually that he is "all there is", but this is not the same as being able to know something experientially. You can have a concept that you are generous, but until you actually do something generous, you will not have the experience of being generous.
This was God's dilemma. God, being "all that is", knows "all that is" conceptually in the realm of the absolute, but like us, she longed for the experience of "all that is". The way you change a concept to an experience is to match what you know as a concept against something that can only be explained and experienced in relationship to what the concept is not.
In order for God to experience "all that is" he had to move "all that is" from the realm of the absolute where "all that is" is "all that is" and put it in a realm where "all that is" is in relationship to "all that is not".
He had to see things that are in relationship to other things that are not. That is, you cannot experience yourself as tall until you have compared yourself to something that is not tall, something we would call short.
God created the heavens and the earth in order to have a world of relativity where something can be known by knowing it in relationship to what it is not. This is different than the realm of the absolute where God knows all things conceptually.
The realm of the relative is where God knows all things experientially. Thus, the first giant spiritual event, the big bang theory, allowed the "no-thing" of a conceptual knowing to become the "every-thing" of an experiential knowing.
In this creation we now had three elements of physicality instead of just the all (as in all that is). Now we could define that which is here, that which is there, and that which is neither here nor there. Of course this neither space is necessary to exist in order for the here and there to exist.
"All that is" was no longer confined to the realm of the absolute but was now made dimensional in the world of the relative. It is still "all that is". Everything in the world of the relative is a part of the "all that is" which comes from the world of the absolute.