11/11/09

Organize and Reorganize

It is, quite literally, the first initial quandary found in the bible:
God created the earth?
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1)," where the Hebrew word for "create" is also known to mean shaped, fashioned, and created; always done as a divine activity (BD). In LDS cannonology, we like to reference the fact that God organized the elements into the plausible and necessary patterns to produce an earth. God then becomes a grand organizer as well as master creater.

How interesting to conjecture about what He does with our physical bodies during the resurrection. For those who have long been laid to rest beneath earth or sea, the hope of assembling a deceased or decayed body may be glim. Yet, as an organizer from the beginning to the end, and an alpha and omega of creation, God could do again what he has already done. It would be coherent with his character that he peacefully reorganize the bygone elements of our body into another, creating a housing of our spirits for the realization of our eternal joys.

He organized, and may also reorganize.
Rembrant van Rijn: The Return of the Prodigal Son

1 comment:

Michael and Tiffany Egbert said...

Wow...where did you find this pic? And where did you plagerize that text from? (okay, I know you wrote it, but it is so scholarly and inspiring)!