{"id":338,"date":"2020-11-12T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/?p=338"},"modified":"2020-11-12T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:23:36","slug":"chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/2020\/11\/12\/chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.\u2019 Job 26:12.&nbsp; This creation myth is a picture of bringing order out of chaos, represented here by the monster of the sea Rabab, but elsewhere the sea is seen as a force of chaos. (Revelation: \u2018there shall be no more sea.\u2019)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve read some discussions of creation theology that regard the subduing of chaos as something that is not a permanent event that just happened a long time ago at the point of creation, but rather, the battle against chaos or disorder is ongoing.&nbsp; In this connection, it&#8217;s a way of thinking about things like air pollution, graffiti, or global warming, the accumulation of dust around the house.&nbsp; The order of creation is not something we should take for granted \u2014 it can be lost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a personal level, the force of chaos might be giving in to lust, anger or other personal choices.&nbsp; So moral choices have&nbsp; consequences that can lead toward the disintegration of the individual, so they are not to be looked at lightly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"88\" src=\"http:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/chaos.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.\u2019 Job 26:12.&nbsp; This creation myth is a picture of bringing order out of chaos, represented here by the monster<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-buttons\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/2020\/11\/12\/chaos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}