Show Notes
A five-minute Christian meditation and lectio divina practice on Genesis 1:3, with a reading from David Bentley Hart's You Are Gods. Day 29 of the Unseen Existences series.
Scripture Genesis 1:3 (NRSVUE) Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Refrain I was called out of the darkness.
Quote David Bentley Hart, from You Are Gods "From eternity, God has brought forth spiritual creatures into existence in the only way that such creatures could be formed: by calling them to ascend out of the darkness of nonbeing into the infinite beauty of the divine nature. To exist as a spiritual creature is simply to have heard and, from the first instant, responded to this total vocation. Creation is already deification—is, in fact, theogony. For that eternal act—that summoning of all created natures out of the primordial darkness—is most certainly an entirely free and unmerited gift of being, imparted to those who were not and who in themselves had no claim to be; but it is also, and no less originally, the call that awakens the gods." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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