God only rested. He didn't quit

So many people think the "seventh day" was the end of creation.

Baloney!

Without being a literalist we can let the words actually used speak to us.  On the seventh day God rested.  Then He/She continued the work of creation.  I believe that the evidence suggests that the work continues through the day your are reading this.

New life, new planets, new galaxies, new cures for diseases, possibly new diseases and many other creative expressions of God continue.

So conservative Christians have to struggle, to really work, to overcome their innate reach into yesteryear to in order to embrace the continually creating God.  The true Christian (or Jew or Muslim, for that matter) who believes in the Creator disclosed in Genesis 1 and 2 has to assume that yesterday's work is "old hat" to God.  Today and tomorrow will see new stuff.

Try this on for size:  embracing the concept that no person should be enslaved, in spite of societal acceptance of slavery in the Old Kingdom of Israel and Judah is part of the "new creation" of God.  Embracing the concept that women are equal in many ways to men, superior in other ways to men and usually less muscular than men is a way of embracing the continuing creativity of God.  Embracing that concepts that gays, lesbians, and transsexuals are loved by God and should be accepted by God's creation as valuable and worthy human beings is a way of embracing the God who continues to create. 

We should not be surprised that our culture is changing, that societal norms are changing.  In fact, from a faith perspective, they must change.  The Curia of the RC church has it all wrong.  Those who appeal to "the way it used to be" or "look to the old ways" have a fundamental flaw in their perspective.

God rested.  She/He did not quit.  Change is not a threat.  He keeps moving us towards the end game where we actually live somewhat like people created in the image of our Creator.

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