SINGULARITY: The Gospel of John, and The Mind of God

By Deborah (Debo) Dykes

 

Scientists call the initial instant of creation, Singularity.  The entire present universe that is, was contained in that singular, unimaginable, brilliant flash.  Theoretically, we can take a snap shot of the first billionth of a second when matter particles and anti-matter particles destroyed each other in a brilliant flash.

 

For most progressive Christians, whatever else science will teach us, John, the Evangelist, claims in his Gospel that “in the beginning” in those initial instants, wisdom was active; intelligence was at work.  The mind of God was ordering all things. 

 

Progressive Christians consider the John tradition to have taken great interest in what was present when the world began. The John tradition makes the startling claim that no thing was created outside of the intelligence and the wisdom of the one who formed it.

 

The eminent biblical scholar, Gerhard Von Rad, has said that one very good way to understand what God meant when God told Moses that God’s name was “I am that I am”

can be translated as “I who cause to be” or, “I am the one who makes everything.”

 

Just as the Bible can be said to be the weaving together of a tapestry of revelations and traditions, progressive Christians can do some weaving of Biblical text and scientific...