The New Progressive Christian Trans Woman

Flower Theology

(A Process Theology of the Spring - Pollinization and fertilization of the Creator’s Gift)

Hebrews 11:1-13 states Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead. By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the Promised Land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—was enabled to become a father because he^[a]considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.

If, based on Holy Scripture and all creative consistency then it must be a logical conclusion that all life is in a state of continual and consistent revelatory truth within a divinely evolving process. The truth in the morning of creation as it relates to the beginning of earth’s existence and the truth in the afternoon of earth’s existence is different. While the logic of early truth remains as a building block it cannot be used to justify or even to identify the truth of today. This would necessarily determine how I look at God, how I see the processes of God and therefore it is necessary for me to look at life from the context of a total environmental conceptual point of view. It is my belief that God’s revelatory truth was revealed to each of the people is Hebrews 11 within the context of where they were within their environments and not without and therefore I must conclude that if God is unchanging and consistent and that the same processes are in effect today. If I put this progressive truth in the context of a flower then I find myself understanding the processes of God more readily as affirmed below:

As an example if we look at the flower we realize that there is a time of pollinization, and fertilization, a period of growth, an expansion, a change in the dynamics of the flower as the flower blossoms revealing the newness and character of life.

It is this pollinization or this imbuing of matter into the flower that causes an inescapable growth and change of dynamics in the flower that begins; this is the springtime of the flowers evolutionary existence. If my view of God rests in a truth that is a progressive reality, reflecting the dynamics of a flower versus a static truth that denies God’s dynamic infinite processes found in the flower, then I miss the wonders and blessings of a Holy God.

This life has been pollinated by Jesus Christ and the Cross with the love of God and therefore life is forever changed revealing the power and evolutionary dynamics of the processes of God. (This dynamic is an expansion of faith). Upon the acceptance and reception of God’s love the creation is then fertilized revealing that spring newness in the life of the created being.

As life evolves in its search for form and function it is incumbent upon humanity to choose to comprehend the enormity and complexity of divine evolution yet the simplicity of the divine evolutionary process primarily a mysitcal event.  Each moment in terra firma must be seen from the perspective of a divine evolutionary processes stemming from the divine. The simplicity of the divine evolutionary process is made complex because of humanities prideful need to somehow interpret life for its own not necessarily to comprehend its place in the divine. We must question the selfish identification and motives of humanity as the apex of the divine and reassess humanity in the context of life seeking form and function divine imperative.