A
Aloysium
Guest
In order to begin to understand how we got here, it is important to have some sense of who we are.
We know certain things about how matter works and comes together to form the molecules that make up, as an immediate example, the screen in front of us and the nervous system that organizes that physical information into a perception and understanding. The basic material structure of the atoms that make up our neurons is subsumed by the encompassing form that is the cell. Some of these cells are constructed to react to external stimuli such as photons entering the eye, and the majority to neurotransmitters; through the interconnectedness of neurons, different patterns of excitation occur within our nevous system. The structure of these patterns is that of mind - perceptions, feelings, words, intent and action. All this comes together as a unity, manifesting our spiritual soul, matter providing that basic substance of our being in space and time, a part of the universe, biological being our capacities to grow, develop, reproduce, feel, perceive, remember and act, and our spiritual being which makes all this one. An aspect of our human soul is its being rooted in eternity, ever here and now in its voyage through time. Where everything is relational, made up of individual events that interact and in doing so, participate in larger whole systems, we transcend those basic capacities; we can know and through our free will, this allows for the possibility of love (agape).
Our reality had a beginning, individually arising from previous human beings and ultimately created by God. Persons are a unity of being, from conception until our death. The organization of external matter into oneself is an aspect of that human soul. The person does not come into being as the matter collects and develops physically, but rather the converse; we grow and develop gaining the ability to express our God-given qualities as we participate in our own creation through what we do. Human beings come from human beings since the creation of Adam, from whom Eve was formed as a unity of body and spirit.
Similarly, although in a less complex form, animals and plants are brought into being as a soul, uniting the constituent matter of the organism into a whole. While our soul is eternal and rational, that of other living creatures exists solely in time and is instinctive. Each new kind of creature has great latitude in how it is expressed over successive generations. Some of this has to do with a built-in capacity to adapt and contribute in different ways to its environment, but mainly it is the expression of the Creator, who influences the heart of His creatures to fulfill such desires for beauty as seen, for example in the physical appearance and behaviour of many diverse birds.
Creation then, is always taking place, offspring from their parents, a pattern that had a beginning in the first of each kind of organism, and before that the brining forth from nothing , all time-space and every event that it contains.
We know certain things about how matter works and comes together to form the molecules that make up, as an immediate example, the screen in front of us and the nervous system that organizes that physical information into a perception and understanding. The basic material structure of the atoms that make up our neurons is subsumed by the encompassing form that is the cell. Some of these cells are constructed to react to external stimuli such as photons entering the eye, and the majority to neurotransmitters; through the interconnectedness of neurons, different patterns of excitation occur within our nevous system. The structure of these patterns is that of mind - perceptions, feelings, words, intent and action. All this comes together as a unity, manifesting our spiritual soul, matter providing that basic substance of our being in space and time, a part of the universe, biological being our capacities to grow, develop, reproduce, feel, perceive, remember and act, and our spiritual being which makes all this one. An aspect of our human soul is its being rooted in eternity, ever here and now in its voyage through time. Where everything is relational, made up of individual events that interact and in doing so, participate in larger whole systems, we transcend those basic capacities; we can know and through our free will, this allows for the possibility of love (agape).
Our reality had a beginning, individually arising from previous human beings and ultimately created by God. Persons are a unity of being, from conception until our death. The organization of external matter into oneself is an aspect of that human soul. The person does not come into being as the matter collects and develops physically, but rather the converse; we grow and develop gaining the ability to express our God-given qualities as we participate in our own creation through what we do. Human beings come from human beings since the creation of Adam, from whom Eve was formed as a unity of body and spirit.
Similarly, although in a less complex form, animals and plants are brought into being as a soul, uniting the constituent matter of the organism into a whole. While our soul is eternal and rational, that of other living creatures exists solely in time and is instinctive. Each new kind of creature has great latitude in how it is expressed over successive generations. Some of this has to do with a built-in capacity to adapt and contribute in different ways to its environment, but mainly it is the expression of the Creator, who influences the heart of His creatures to fulfill such desires for beauty as seen, for example in the physical appearance and behaviour of many diverse birds.
Creation then, is always taking place, offspring from their parents, a pattern that had a beginning in the first of each kind of organism, and before that the brining forth from nothing , all time-space and every event that it contains.
