Week 21

When the humane enters the divine. Rob Bell makes an excellent and true point that “Everything is Spiritual.” He points out that behind everything big and small science has discovered the finger of God. Science has discovered the complexity of a Big Mind. Science is starting to think outside the box. It’s a very good movie/lecture to watch. In my readings of the Book of Daniel I have somehow noticed the opposite—the material and mundane can’t meet the spiritual and divine. Every time Daniel had a spiritual contact he collapsed and fell sick. For example: “The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many days from now." And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king's business, but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it” (8:26-27; see also Dn 8.17-18, 27; 9.21; 10.7-11, 15-18). It seems to be the opposite of Rob Bell’s point, as if the divine and the humane are two realities that can’t meet. Human beings can’t see the Holy and survive the OT states: Is 6.5; Ex 33.20; Jd 6.22; 13.22; Job 42.5. I think then it is no surprise that we can’t see the spirituality behind the material and mundane. We have to learn to transcend the body to be able to “see” the spiritual world. For some of us it will only be possible when we put on the new body. For some others will faint, like Daniel. And for a few others, they will be able to see and live. Very few ones.