Before I begin to explain creation I must coin two words from two well understood words.
Grace. One of the dictionary definitions of Grace refers to God’s Grace. When I use the word grace this is the kind of grace I refer to. However, I need to make a slight correction.
A gracious event is an event without explanation. I remove God as the cause. Then all those events that happen without cause are gracious. The result is while God’s Grace is always judged as good, your gracious act is simply a gracious act without judgment.
If you wish to Judge Grace as God’s Grace, you also resolve the creation question by making God the one and only creator. You simply have selected a manifestation of everything as a cause and called it God and judged everything that happens as God’s plan.
Karma. Karma is usually attached to a person. We speak of a person’s karma and include all his history and its interconnectiveness. All the present events of a person’s karma are caused by the person’s past. I’m going to take the liberty with this word as well.
The union of all karma I’m going to call the karma. Then everything that can be explained as cause and effect composes the karma.
Then the union of grace and karma includes all events. Each gracious act affects the karma. Karma however does not affect grace (in a world where the direction of time is determined by entropy).
For the intellectual there is an important aside. Consider the universe described in the gospel according to Joseph. Time is the dependent variable. Entropy does not determine the direction of time. In such a universe grace is as often the end of some karma as it is the beginning of some karma. Of interest this corresponds with the Alpha Omega idea of creation.Letter to creationists The coexistence of karma and grace
The coexistence of choice and destiny
The havoc wrought by quantum mechanicsFirst an easy question. What came first, the chicken or the egg?
It’s old hat only because you’ve heard it before. There is no first. The chicken and the egg are interrelated. They coexist.
Another old hat. If God created man than who created the creator? The real question is “Was there ever something from nothing?”.
Let us start with the belief in karma. Expand that belief into the karma of everything. By this I mean let’s not talk about my karma or your karma. Let’s talk about the karma. There is the karmic idea that everything is interconnected.
Einstein once agreed. Einstein once said God does not throw dice. He said everything was relative. There was however this left over quantum he explained away as acceptable measurement error.
Along came quantum mechanics. It was not a measurement error. Something came from nothing. Einstein changed his mind and wrote specific relativity from general relativity. He also decided God does throw dice.
Every event that cannot be explained by general karma is a specific intervention. Grace is the name given to this intervention. Therefore, grace is the name given when something occurs from nothing.
If there was always something, then there was always the karma. If your will is free then you act outside of karma. Your free will is ongoing creation. Although you act within destiny, your action is gracious. (Your) Grace creates tomorrow’s karma.
If God or God’s creations came from nothing, then everything began with grace. Grace has always been beautiful. Karma has always been beautiful. Whether it started with grace or with karma seems irrelevant. Like the chicken and the egg, karma and grace coexist. Creation is ongoing.