In the Beginning

 For decades, for centuries, we have been taught in Sunday School, Church, Religious Colleges and Universities, that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh.  I would like to suggest that God may have created the world in six days, but didn't complete his work.  Yes, that's right, that He did not complete creation.

The reason why I am saying this, is that even though God created the world in six days, He also didn't finish His creation because He wanted to be in partnership with us to continue His creation.   We have the responsibility then to complete the creation that He started, and work in partnership with God.  That is one reason why we have been commanded to be "stewards" of creation.

Working in partnership in a continued creative activity by being "stewards", we have been commanded to learn, to study, and to develop our thoughts.  Basically right from the beginning, education is to be kept.  Emphasis was placed on learning, knowledge, thinking, expanding that knowledge, to think and look outside the box, to push the envelope.

Learning is a part of humanity, the human spirit to expand our understandings.  To learn we must ask questions, and in giving answers we should be asking another question.  It is more important that one asks questions, than it is to give an answer.  It is also important that to embrace what has been discovered as new, and learn from the past to explore the new and accept the new with enthusiasm. 

There isn't one religion in the world, that has a monopoly on wisdom nor the education found in that wisdom, which includes thinking outside the box of one's religion.  Wisdom is there to take and to use, to learn from it, and to move freely into the future where ever that wisdom takes a person.

Creation is not bound up in what is seen creation to be.  Creation is not just the development of the species, the observation of the growth of plants.  Creation is the totality of knowledge, community, to live in a "right" meaning of knowledge, education, wrapped up together with in the partnership with God.  Creation has become more than six days.  Creation in reality is not just six days of a conceptual understanding.  In the partnership that is experienced with God, means that education is not stagnant, nor is wisdom confined or limited.  As a result, God changes with His creation that is on going.

Education therefore is to be experienced, which includes wisdom being experienced as well.  That is the human spirit which was and is intended to be free from the confinements of rules and regulations found in religion and strict adherence that have often been found in religions.  There are times where we as believers need to be willing to think outside the box.  We need to be ready to search beyond the confines that have been imposed and suppressed free thinking.

From the beginning, education was intended to be kept and never suppressed.  Education was to produce wisdom, learning, and understanding.  All of which is the action of the Human Spirit which was and is designed to be free.  Free to think, free to move beyond the box, to push the envelope with the freedom to go beyond.