[betty boop]

What I observe is that, while there are eternal principles, the manifestation and unfolding of those principles takes on endless variety and the process of creation never stops and I believe never will. Each stage of creation merely sets the stage for the next one.... Creation is central to God's essence I believe (and ours). Creation that is continuous is going to look a lot like evolution.

What a remarkably penetrating insight!!!

God "hides" in plain sight....

But those who refuse to look will, of course, not see let alone find Him.

But that seems to be the entire point of the "willful blindness" so assiduously cultivated by materialist reductionists of all stripes. They insist on a "causally-closed" universe. God cannot exist, because we don't need Him: The Universe "explains itself" over time, and reveals itself to be an evolutionary development that bottoms out in physics and chemistry. Seek no further for explanation. As with Karl Marx, all questions that may challenge the preferred orthodoxy are "streng verboten."

Thank you so very much, dear marron, brother in Christ, for your wonderfully thought-provoking essay/post.

[MHGinTN]

Excellent expression, that! And ya know what, the human soul/spirit is evolving under God’s guidance, also. What did Paul write? ... ‘We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.’