Article Contributed on: 6/10/2009 3:57:19 PM
It is said that before existence began, there was all potential and no definition. Then an empty space opened up to make a place for something to exist. It was like a big, empty vessel but it got a crack in it. So, as time and light and everything spiraled about on it, they couldn't procede unimpeded. And everything that's here does its best to function as well as it can, considering.
There are intelligent functions in the world and the universe that work the same on the cosmic level as they do in human existence. For example, people get ideas from out of the blue and they act on them. When the new idea is still in a state of unconditioned being, it's the same as the first emanations that came about in the universe, only on the human level.
If creation were perfect, either everything would work like a machine that functions endlessly on and on, or there would be no reason for anything to exist. But creation is flawed. You can't know everything, for example. There are things you don't have the capacity to get. God knows everything that can be known, but not everything can be known because of the flaw.
If creation were not flawed, there would be no division in it. I don't think we'd have free will.
The flaw of creation is what enables us to see it, and marvel at it if we want to, or else complain about it and curse it. The magnificence shines out because of chaos and darkness which provide contrast. So I revere the flaw and think there's a great purpose in it.
For example, Adam and Eve were given an idea by a snake--that you don't have to take God's word to the letter. You can come up with your own assessment. That was a true idea, but it opened up an insidious potential. And ever since then we've been getting it wrong.
Even when you're trying to do what's right, it can be the wrong thing to do.
That's why it's better not to think of your good deeds as the way to salvation, I think. It's better to hope that God loves us and to do our best, knowing we can't know what's best but we are trying. And it's blessed to forgive.