Cheryl Schatz

Don said in #178:

And yet many believers believe differently, so I encourage believers to study all sides of this.

I take this statement as poetry and as a hymn. What I take this to mean is that those who love God should put their thumb and forefinger together, cross their legs and say “ohmmmmmmm” in a meditative thought about the differences of the creation of the unicorn and the cosmic force. That is what I get out of it.

Am I wrong? Am I allowed to take words and make them mean anything I feel like? Should I be affirmed that what I think Don is saying is POSSIBLE? Let’s all just accept my take as one of the hundred’s of thousands of different “feelings” that we can get by what Don says.

Or should we accept that words have meanings within their context? It is time that we accept what God said. God said that there was a beginning. It is one thing to say that the “days” of creation may be more than our 24 hour earth days, than it is to say that there are different creation accounts which are, well just different and they cannot be put together and who knows when they happened and who knows what is true and who knows anything???

I am weary of the jello on the wall. Jello cannot be nailed to the wall. It slips and slides and makes a mess of my “Women in Ministry” wall. It is so frustrating to ask for definitions and get none and ask for meanings and get none and ask for a way of defining the difference between truth and myth and get no real answer.

Please just STOP.