77 Chaos: Imagine This!

Remember! When I refer to person in the Godhead in any blog, I am referring either to singular person (one-of-three) or to the collective person (three-in-one) of the Triune.

Yes, dear reader, chaos, managed or unmanaged, is a great unknown territory. And unmanaged chaos is terrible country.

Consider the following observation of managed chaos that I imagine when I think of this (to me) virtually impenetrable prospect of chaos, attentive reader.

If Creation, as we know it in the largest sense, is inclusive of all that exists within that pattern and all lives ever lived . . .

And if Creation itself is also only a pattern fragment of the all-possible number of conceivable patterns in the largest sense of the Creation and beyond.

And if once past the boundaries of any one pattern such as ours, chaos as ordered by God converts to other patterns still managed by Him, then . . .then that’s a large and substantial idea in and of itself! And one with its feet on the ground, so to speak, at least in the thinking of our time.

Yet, even more mind-boggling is the inclusion of unmanaged chaos into the managed realm, creating the current situation of a fallen world reeling with the distorting effects of unmanaged Chaos.

Nevertheless, being one of God’s secrets, the absolute answers to the nature of chaos and its solutions must wait, of course, until God decides to make all the particulars known.

So, with science and Chaos Theory as our basis and God as the Master of Chaos from all time, it can be reasonably said that in the beginning, Creation existed in a semi-durable state as a complex pattern, which pattern was a permanent part of the whole system of pattern involved in expressing chaos, but was not representative of all other elements.

Note well, my fiercely concentrating companion, in the beginning, the composition of patterns we neighbored in the fabric of chaos or any other more distant pattern within the whole manifestation of chaos, probably varied wildly from our own. But each additional pattern was also an existing pattern in chaos and had its indelible place in the whole of the dynamic of chaos, just as did our pattern.

That is not to say that our pattern did not sometimes evidence interruptions within it. Such an occurrence as interruption is possible in a pattern, without demolishing the pattern. But interruptions must be the exception and not the rule, otherwise the pattern will weaken, if not its bonds dissolve outright.

Thus the troublesome predicament of the Fall—unleashed chaos in a managed chaos system, became the ongoing situation. And thus the predicament of our severely damaged and badly troubled Creation emerged as a result of the Fall, as a result of the terrible new burden of unleashed chaos.

To be continued . . .