God talk

  29 10 2021 The Three Objective causes of the spiritual life.   Part 1 This is the sun rising.  Let us always see our cup half full.   So, Facebook has decided to change its name to meta (sounds like ‘dead’ (feminine form) in Hebrew.   מתה )   Anyhow people will go into this digital universe wearing these goggles and living their virtual world. A lot of people are not interested in the spiritual, but the fact is they practice it every day even without realizing it.   We all have a spiritual life something that cannot be touched, and it is not tangible in the everyday sense, but it does exist.   We see glimpses of the spiritual life in everyone we meet.   A smile can tell you that a person is feeling good inside.   When a person has a sad experience, they may shed tears.   Everyone is different but we cannot escape spirituality not even the atheist or the scientist although they may interpret spirituality in a way that I would choose not to.   We now move into Bavinck’s world,

  As human beings we are all part of nature, so we live and die even if we haven’t sinned.   Yet even though this is the case there is an aspect of our life that can go beyond this life death scenario and live forever.   We are not only natural beings of the earth, but we are also spiritual beings that can move beyond the here and now. Unfortunately for humanity Adam sinned, the Fall happened, and we were pulled into this meager existence that leads to both spiritual and physical death.     Bavinck goes beyond this, and he points to some shocking conclusions: A local moose near where we live!   “Life indeed. It goes without saying that this is life, as Holy Scripture often calls it. All other life is temporary, transient, fleeting, and subject to death (even without sin); the vegetative, sensory life cannot last on its own, not even in human beings. Physical life cannot be immortal of itself, not even in Adam, in whom it might have been eternalized through the spiritual. The ration