Tagged: book of life

Guest Post: Nevada-Jane Arlow

Prompt: “Christianity will always be inappropriately anthropocentric.” (100 words or more)

What kind of Man?

[a woman lays in a grassy field at twilight. Someone she loves is holding her tightly. The air is full of fireflies and the sound of innumerable gibbons. She turns her head and speaks]

SHE: Tell me, my love, does god live in the woods? Does his grace extend to dead deer being scavenged by a bear, and what does he think of the bear?  What does Christ want of the cool river and the oaks that shroud it? What grace must we have if he chose only species in which to save, and only one to grant the soul. Tell me what kind of man this Jesus is. Apparently, he is a man, everything else in his creation was too filthy or stupid to him to even contemplate incarnating as one. He intervened in Old Egypt but lifts not one finger in Borneo, where burnt orangutans die of hunger and injury. He clothes and comforts outsiders, but what about the ones who wear no clothes? Who walks out alive of the Garden of Eden and which creatures does he keep in his book of life?