We all fear change. Nevertheless, it stands to reason that all creation is in evolution. That is to say, the observed and the observer are evolving. If you stop evolving, you are dead. Is this not what a corpse is, an immobile thing? If the world stops evolving all life forms die. Think about it?
Is God fearful of truth changing? How would you answer this question?
Samuel Holden, the first rabbi of the Reform congregation in Berlin, wrote in 1845 (162 years ago) that divine law is given only for a particular time and place. If this highest law can be abrogated, so can the lesser laws! The abrogation is based on evolution.
This is one piece of logic that you carry with you in purse or wallet.
Samuel Holdheim observes our situation in relationship to God's laws, the highest form of any law:
"The law, even though divine, is potent only so long as the conditions and circumstances of life, to meet which was enacted, continue; when these change, however, the law also must be abrogated, even though it have God as its author. For God himself has shown indubitably that with change of the circumstances and conditions of life for which He once gave those laws, the laws themselves cease to be operative, that they shall be observed no longer because they can be observed no longer."
What is so plain here is that God's laws are at the mercy of his creation. Therefore, God also must go with the flow. What a magnificent adapting Creator! It would be nice if we were as <fearless> as God with changing conditions and circumstances. There is a good dosage here of humility for those religious creatures who persist in speaking for an immobile Creator.
What do you think?
George
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