TOHU VA BOHU | The Word Made Fresh | Genesis 1:1-5
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2021
- Believe it or not but the concept of "creation out of nothing" (or in fancy terms, "creation ex nihilo") is completely unbiblical. It's all right there in the second verse of the Bible: "The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God sept over the face of the waters."
Creation is not a beast to be tamed. The chaos doesn’t always need order. Sometimes we just need to shift our perspective, take off the lenses of Creation ex Nihilo that we didn’t even know we’ve been wearing, that “abiding western dominology” and see the beauty that is always and already here, the spirit of God hovering over the deep and anointing all who wear the mark of chaos.
Or as Dr. Catherine Keller writes in her book, The Face of the Deep A Theology of Becoming, “The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. 'God had made us master organizers of the world to establish a system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.' From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control, darkness rather than pallor. To plead otherwise is to write 'carte blanche for chaos.' Yet those who wear the mark of chaos, the skins of darkness, the genders of unspeakable openings -- those Others of Order keep finding voice. But they continue to be muted by the bellowing of the dominant discourse.”
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What a great time to find beauty in the chaos...😜 My Old Testament professor in Seminary looooved teaching on this phrase. Thanks for this!
Thank you, I’m just starting to studying. This second verse just blew me away!
"the state of things in the infinite future is death, the nothingness in which consists of the absolute triumph of law and the absence of all spontaneity" -- CS Peirce
This is so helpful. Thank you 🌻
I would like to tell you that you need to think about Jonathan Pageau's argument about turning postmodernism against itself (my comment disappeared because I mentioned content by title). In the watchable production, he describes how a radical acceptance of chaos necessarily opens up the space for death to impose itself as the central aspect of the discourse. This will in turn invite a totalitarian response from order, which is a metaphysical constant, and create a destructive adversarial dialectic between totalitarianism and anarchism. How would you respond to his criticism that can be applied to your notion of seeing the beauty within chaos by letting it be as it is? Isn't the Christian story, and especially Christ's passion, about facing the depths of chaos and ultimately even death by fully accepting their darkest reality, which is symbolically represented as the crucifixion of Christ in the Bible? Do you think Jesus is seeing the beauty of chaos by letting it be as it is when He is dying on the cross?
I got to this video from the hebrew on the EP Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. good stuff
So glad you found us! This is one of our favorites!
@@trcnyc also scrolled through the comment section. Sympathy for the really bigoted people in there. I'm not of faith but theology has always been an interest. Thanks for looking into religious texts with a more open mind!
Ha, thank you. We get the full of range here in the comments. So glad you’ve found us!
🤯 That was a real paradigm shift, thank you! Also, where did you go the rest of Advent? I was a little worried about you as you seemed to suddenly stop making videos right in the middle. Hope all is well with you and your family.
This year's Advent/Christmas ended up with a few extra projects. In addition to producing the daily episodes of Be Still and Go: Meditations for the Movement, Jim was producing a couple other Christmas videos for Riverside. (Did you see our Children & Families Christmas pageant?) But The Word Made Fresh is BACK! (Sorry for vanishing for a few weeks.)
For any KMFDM fans that land here wondering how to say it: 2m47s
Maybe it’s obvious, but what’s KMFDM?
Oh, the band! The power of Google.
wow what weird translation are you getting this bink out of? and it ain't nothing... where is tohu wa bohu and the slimy stone and the green string?... where is ruach? it aint blowing in the wind dude... maybe try using a more literal translation process from thw ancient Hebrew...
“Tohu va bohu” and “ruach” are literally Hebrew words found in Genesis 1. They are translated to “formless and void” and “breath/spirit”
Came across your channel. Will not subscribe or be back. The default position that you espouse is that God is the author of chaos. He is not.
I’m not sure that’s exactly what Rev. Keat is saying in this video. But really we hope you’ll want to stick around with us for our content about welcoming queer people and dismantling racism and the ways social justice is implicit in what it means to be a church. But if none of that is your thing, thanks for stopping by! ;)
Agreed. Gen 1:1 plainly stats GOD created the formless void (exnihilo). Also this feels like he went from theology to a woke ideology. Keep the Faith!
Any church that is ok and excepting of homosexuality, trans or the changing of male/female (Gods law) is a church who is candle-less and whose father is the devil. Come out from among them and be ye separate. Read Rom 1:27 it’s as plain as Gen 1:1 God created.
Romans 1:27 ESV- and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Romans 1
this very old false teaching just buys into a modern paradigm that choas is okay and (almost) God's will which I don't buy, and thankfully neither do other orthodox Christians and the major churches, now or ever. Creation ex-nihilo is part of our inheritance as Judaeo/Christians. It is thoroughly biblical and affirmed by the church's creedal statements and philosophical teaching. We bin it at our peril. Read around this before accepting this 'teaching'
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