LABELS ARE FOR JARS NOT PEOPLE

Living things grow fully into what they are created to be.  I don’t think of that as progressing or advancing.  Life is a circle; seed to plant, plant to fruit, fruit to seed, season by season.  It’s not an evolving into something in a linear way.  An apple seed already knows it will become an apple.  The process was complete when it was created.  Left alone it continues season after season.

People labeled Progressives move beyond their earlier beginnings and beliefs, never to return to the simple basics of the process.  Those beliefs are considered stepping stones to advanced thinking and can now be put aside as primitive beliefs.  For Progressive Christians one of those primitive beliefs is God Himself as the all and end all of life; the theory of everything.  The world is more complicated and needs advanced thinkers to deal with the continuing changing culture.  So they look to the Academies of psychology, sociology, and theology for advice; books upon books and teachers upon teachers, sharing their knowledge of how life is to be now, in our time and space.

The progression seems to result into their growing into gods of their own making, constantly building their towers of Babel, reaching for the sky so as to make a name for themselves. They seem to follow the pattern of lifeless technology; newer is better, more efficient, more exciting; constantly throwing out the old to make way for the new, improved product.

God looked at what He created and said “it was very good”.  He did not add, “But it will get so much better”.  Personally I like God’s process and growth plan of growing into who and what I was created to be.  In the beginning God was the all and the end of all…the Beginning and the End.  I believe He still is and forever will be.