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Thursday, April 20, 2017
QUANTUM THEOLOGY
“Quantum Theology”-- (A poem without end)
Friday, June 12, 2009...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 latest revision #10
By Rev. Dr. Larry D. Coleman
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On the verge of happiness
At the cusp of joy,
Beckons “Quantum Theology’s”
Healing alloy.
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Scientific rigor strains
To transcend that
Man-God dyad
Stained with “sin.“
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Bereft of “evil,”
It would subsume both:
The notion of devotion,
And the shock of doom.
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Jesus died to expiate
The “sins” of all;
Then to propitiate,
And reinstate that Dyad.
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Yet, orthodox doctrine would
maintain the deceit that:
His life, death and resurrection
Yet remains incomplete.
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That despite his oblation
So perfect and true,
A cross remains
For me and for you.
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If “sin” precedes
And if “sin” is abides
Was our Savior’s death
Mere fratricide?
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Of no force, nor effect?
Just another dead Jew:
On a Roman cross,
In the morning dew?
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“Heaven and earth shall pass away:
But my words shall not pass away.”
Mark 13:31 predicts, while Gen. 1:1
“In the beginning God” inveighs:
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An ineffable energizing spirit,
Creator of time and space;
The devolution of matter is,
Within God’s enduring grace.
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Jehovah created Good and Evil
According to Isaiah 45:7.
“He is before all things,” says Col.1:17
“and in him all things hold together.”
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“To be or not to be,”
Wrote Shakespeare in Hamlet.
The harmony of polarity is
Quantum Theology’s epaulet.
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Whether wave or dot nor neither
Each observer’s act decides.
Here and there simultaneously,
Where both curses and blessings abide.
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Both Literal and figurative together
At once, male and female too.
It’s the reconciliation of allegory
With what science believes is true.
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Where math and myth play together
Approving each other’s theorems;
Where life in its all dominions
Is as varied as Solomon’s harems.
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Where everybody is somebody
On God’s spectrum of being;
Where everything is everything:
Divinely embued with meaning.
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“Who (or what) shall separate us from
The love of Christ?” asks Rom.8:35.
“Neither death nor life, nor angels nor
Principalities ...”
Nor any sect’s doctrinal jive!
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“Nor things present nor things to come,
Nor height nor depth, Nor any other
created thing, shall… separate us
From … Christ,” our redeeming brother.
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In Christ, the wolf and
the lamb dwell together. Likewise,
The leopard and the kid.
Cow and bear are not otherwise.
From none is God’s presence hid.
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Isaiah 11:10 predicts: “a root shall come
out of Jesse,” whom the Gentiles will seek,
Enabling recovery of the remnant,
And the redemption of the meek.
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The amorphous God and the personal God
Exist as one and the same.
“His“ Uncertainty Principle, And “His”
Ordered Universe bear “His” sacred name.
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Symbol and substance walk together
From one source both having come,
Light and dark and day and night
Unite in the Summum Bonum.
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In earth’s life-giving water,
gas, liquid and solid exist;
external factors determining
which condition subsists.
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That which was, that which is,
and that which is yet to be;
Sanctified, mortified, glorified:
There for the blessed to “see.”
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Great in the kingdom of heaven
Are they who live in God’s law.
But least in the kingdom of heaven
Are they who abide in scofflaw. (Matt.5:19)
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Then Jesus said to his disciples,
"If anyone would come after me,
He must deny himself and
Take up his cross and follow me. (Matt.16:24)
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With what measure you mete,
it shall be measured to you:
Pressed down, shaken together (Luke 6:38)
And running over: your due.
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Go neither to Gentiles, nor Samaritans,
only to “Jews” who are “worthy”; (Matt.10:5-15)
Then, extend your peace to these.
If rejected, shake off their dust fully.
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While all may grieve,
Only some may receive.
Trees which do not bear fruit,
Are rightfully cut off at the root.
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For he that hath
to him more shall be given:
And from he that hath not,
Even this shall be taken!
(Mark 4:25)
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Sow, then, Sower your seed.
Like a treasure hid in a field,
It shall betide man’s rediscovery,
Like Quantum Theology does recovery.
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God has not given us the spirit of fear.
But of love, a sound mind, and power. (2 Tim.1:7)
We are all “The children of God”
(Rom.8:16) every day and every hour.
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Some theology claims we must “choose”
“Whom” we shall serve.
But, as God created everything,
to breathe is to serve with verve!
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No so-called “Satan,”
nor priests of Baal,
Nor other demon
Can rend God’s veil!
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Now unto him that is able to do
exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think,
according to the power that worketh in us, (Ephe.3:20)through his spiritual food and drink:
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Monday, September 19, 2011
I am both scientific and spiritual, both literal and figurative, both mathematical and mythical, both historical and allegorical, both sacred and secular, both gutter and grandiosity, both alpha and omega, formed in the likeness and image of God. Is anybody else?
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Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/09/quantum-gravity-the-key-to-the-evolution-of-the-universe.html