Typically (too often!) Christians make God responsible for everything... And are then appalled that God is responsible for... everything!
If God really had made everything from nothing - then there is nowhere to go, nothing to do - and nobody to do it.
Creation should be understood as creation-from-something, in the direction of something-more.
Creation is not from one-thing (it is not one-thing) but from many things (many Beings) in harmonious love.
(originating in many things...) Whence then cometh the coherence of creation - what is the origin of this love? Why is not creation the war of each against all?
Because of love - insofar as love.
Love is between the Beings of reality. And God began love.
(Because God is two, not one: heavenly Parents, not just Father. It was their mutual love that began love.)
God began love, God continues with love. Anyone else who desires can join-in.
The direction of creation is from the passive and accepting love of childhood, towards the active and autonomous love of maturity...
From helping with creation, towards contributing to creation.
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“(Because God is two, not one: heavenly Parents, not just Father. It was their mutual love that began love.)”
I think I only understood this, at least in conscious terms, recently, and then so much made sense. If confined to surveying today’s world this basis of love in sexual polarity may (alas) be most obvious in the negative cases, such as when witnessing just how poisonous a failed heart-love can be, if things do not heal properly, the way everything in the soul can harden (as perhaps one picks up an ideology, such as Feminism or the Red Pill, to cope) and the higher life and sense of spirituality becomes closed. And more generally we witness the decrepit state of things when it comes to the war between the sexes, the war amongst the sexes to compete for attention, the whole bad farce of sexual immorality, all the different aspects of this dysfunction which (while always to an extent the way things were in mortal life) shows up especially bad today and is undeniable just in statistical terms with the collapsed fertility rate. What is so simple and insightful in the opening of Das Rheingold is the explicitly sensual terms of the renunciation of love for power—a naturalistic myth of the origin of evil and the vanity of the world.
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