During one lifetime, we witness many changes. Changes that are motivated through culture and schooling, interactions with people and nature, events and experiences that we have; even our psychological self-concept and environment can change the person we are. To a large extent it is an evolutionary process. Can we also assume that the cosmos has experienced a similar change since much has happened over the last 13.7 billion years? And has our understanding of the Creator changed during our time on Earth? I think not. Let us consider the well-accepted fact that that God equals peace and love, and yet we see our world is full of conflict and strife. How can this be? Why hasn’t, our belief of peace prevailed? Before the creation of our universe there was no tension, but during the creation there was a period of extreme upheaval, and disruption continues through forces of expansion and contraction. Scientists tell us, that this will continue ad infinitum. Prior to creation, the universe must have been a place of utter silence and perfection, and God was at peace. But during and after the Big Bang, the universe entered a state of upheaval, friction, and flux was the order of the era. From being, the universe and God was becoming. This emergence does not equate to love and peace, but rather to an on-going process of evolutionary tension. Is there a possibility that our idea of a God filled with love, compassion, forgiving is out-dated? No doubt it still remains relevant in our being worldview, but does this only reflect a half-filled glass? Whereby, the other half, the evolution part, the becoming, looks and feels exactly like the changes we and the world is experiencing at this present moment. Understanding this, we can embrace the interpretation of who and what God is experiencing in an evolutionary process. That God is still loving and forgiving, but also dynamic, evolving that leads to a higher emergence.
