What if life is really one big family? What if all reality in Creation is related to the Creator that gives it shape and life? What if all existence shares the creator/creation bloodline in common? What if we are all cousins to each other as well as to the birds and trees?
What if the story of Adam and Eve is a poetic rendering of this one family tree nature? What if Adam and Eve are meant to helpus think of each other as cousins in a large family? What if like Adam and Eve we share our life coming from God in common with the rest of Creation?
The public school story of our origins does not give us Adam and Eve and God in common. The story does give us the Universe's matter, and the tree of evolutionary life on planet Earth in common with all living things on this planet! We are still distant cousins even to the birds and trees and fishes in the sea.
What if in the Universe there is a forest of evolved lifeforms from different worlds? We would still all share the Universe and its matter in common like the egg and sperm of life as we know it! We would still be related to the stars in the sky as our ancestors and each other as cousins from different worlds.
What if God is the Creator of the laws the Universe follows in its composing stars and planets? What if God created the evolution process that brings forth life from the "clay" of matter? What if DNA is the breath of life in the clay of the Earth? What if God created the Heavens nd the Earth or the Universe and our planet? What if the book of Genesis is a poetic rendering meant to say in the beginning God created...
Oh, and yeah that we are all God's family potentially after all is said and done.
