Love is Creation. Creation is Ongoing.

Here are a couple of recent Charlton posts that are pretty thought-provoking in our ongoing effort to “seek learning out of the best books.”  I wish there was one of those blog round-ups for JG-adjacent blogs.  But the reality is it would have to be someone from here who did it with all their free time.  If the Spirit whispers to one of you that you want to, drop a line.  Until then, we will be happy with occasional links.

Mainstream Christians blab a lot about love, but you can tell they understand love to be just an emotion. Their love takes place against a background of materialism, a lifeless universe of randomness and physics…

But a real understanding of love is that love is bound up with creation

-thus God is Love – but What About Creation?

The primary creation was imposed-upon the pre-existing and eternal Beings by God.

This imposition was by necessity. Before creation, Beings existed in isolation and without relationships – thus direction, purpose and meaning in a creation based-upon Love emerged only after primary creation.

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To be clear: all the Beings of creation (even Satan, the first rebel against God) have been, even if briefly, subordinated to God’s creation.

-thus Primary creation (of God the Father) is opt-out; the second creation (of Jesus Christ) is opt-in

Really fascinating.  The key cool insight is almost just encapsulated in the title, which is one sign to a mature line of thought.

I have my doubts about its straightforward application to the Old and New Testament and salvation history.  I am sceptical of all such projects and in general I believe accounts of family love that underplay or dismiss the authority and power and rule of the father are all too typical of the modern world and all too common.  These two types of stages ultimately need to be synthesized into one whole experience.

His application to the premortal experience is fascinating.  For a long time I have believed that  the ultimate root of Satan’s anger is that the idea of using or benefiting in any way from God he finds intolerable, but he owes even his very existence to God, not to mention the very rules of the game he seeks to exploit and the power he uses to exploit it.  This was based on a dream narrated by a sword where an Arthurian court ended in Jaredite destruction.  There can be no rejoicing in Hell at the captivity of a sinner–nothing gladdens his heart–because it is all thoroughly tainted with his resentment and rage that even his opposition is a form of subjection.