I have mentioned several times here that I am reading, among other things, Francis Collin's "The Language of God." I found the book difficult at first, but at midpoint it suddenly became alive to me, and just today while reading on my lunch hour I suddenly was so amazed I wanted someone to tell it to. But to tell what I learned to anyone at work would have been an effort in futility. No one at work would have the background to comprehend any of it.
Collins explained his position as a theistic evolutionist, but went on to say he wanted to create a wholly new label that would avoid confusion and consternation among Christians who did not have the working vocabulary to understand the emphesis or full meaning of theistic evolution. So he came up with a new term, BioLogos.
Yes, the same word he and the other scientist who have great faith in God used for the wonderful website, BioLogos.com.
I was so happy I was wishing I didn't have to go back to work but could keep reading. But, lunch was over and it was back to the tedious and cruel world of retail.
Bio, for science, as in Biology, Biochemistry, etc, and Logos, Greek for Word. Word as in John 1:1 "In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
So beautiful. So descriptive. And so non threatening to those poor souls still locked in a literal interpretation of scripture.
So now I have a label for myself. I am a BioLogos. I kinda like theistic evolutionist better, but BioLogos will always demand an explanation while saying one is a theistic evolutionist may raise alarm because of the E word. And as Collins says in his book, most Christians won't know a theist if one ran into them.
So I feel like I have found that which I searched so long for. At least I have an identity now for who I believe I am. I have always believed in God, and since a young man believed in a Savior. I have known how to live within the parameters of a spirit led life. But the troubling parts has always been with the physical evidence around me that did not conform to what my Christian teachers and friends were telling me about the earth and environment in which I live. Now I am at peace with it all. And I pity those who still struggle to make Genesis work as a literal explanation.
I keep coming back to the Martin Luther King, Jr's famous phrase, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
