Absorbed?

[Jamesoasts]

When i was watching this snail eat a small fast fish after harpooning him. I thought that is how nature works all of it. We eat things then our bodys breaks what we eat down into nutrients. We absorbe it. As far as i know every thing works like this. What ever it is it has to absorbe something else into it. I then wondered if that is what will happen in the end in a way. Absorbed into God. I dont know or sure. Just something i though of.

 

[pollycarp]

That’s interesting. Maybe we will (hopefully) get absorbed. God’s ways are certainly not our ways. I often think of the importance of food and eating in salvation history, beginning with the fruit and forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, the Jews’ food that was considered unclean, Daniel Ch. 1 fruit and vegetable diet, Ezekiel bread, the loaves and fishes, Peter’s vision of the animals he was told to take and eat, and then the Eucharist in the end. (But I am a foodie.)

 

[AlanFromWichita]

I don’t know why we wouldn’t be absorbed into God. He gets absorbed into us every time we receive Holy Communion.

Alan

 

[Anthony_V]

When i was watching this snail eat a small fast fish after harpooning him. I thought that is how nature works all of it. We eat things then our bodys breaks what we eat down into nutrients. We absorbe it. As far as i know every thing works like this. What ever it is it has to absorbe something else into it. I then wondered if that is what will happen in the end in a way. Absorbed into God. I dont know or sure. Just something i though of.

See: Theosis
Man was created to enter into a mystical union with God, by the aid of God’s grace.

 

[Falco]

Food for thought, indeed - that should keep me busy for days. Thank you.