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Broken Connection to Earth

…when Hercules had to do battle with him, Antaeus could be defeated only when his contact with his origin was broken. Then, of course, there is Oedipus, whose name means “lame foot,” indicating a problematic contact with the earth…in education our link with the origins of life is not only a contact with the sacred texts that lie at the origin of truth in life, but also with those human beings who have newly entered life, with children…for the learned men of Wannsee, children were primary targets for extermination…in the Midrash on Psalms we are told that at Sinai God asked “the sucklings and the embryos: ‘Will you be sureties for your fathers, so that if I give them the Torah they will live by it, but that if they do not, you will be forfeited because of them?’ They replied: ‘Yes’”…thus we see what, according to Jewish tradition, is at stake in our adherence to the sacred texts that underlie the highest in higher education. And we see what was lost in the miscarriage of education manifested at Wannsee.
–David Patterson

Flawless Information Injection

When we consider God, then, who, according to the Biblical text, injected perfect information into the universe, we can be amazed:

1 ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 οὖτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν.
He was with God in the beginning.

3 πάντα δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὃ γέγονεν
Through him all things were made; without him, nothing was made that has been made.

4 ἐν αὐτῶ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων·
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

5 καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

Did you catch that? This parallel of Genesis asserts that Jesus the Christ is the Word who is somehow concurrently with–and in being–God. A perfect word is perfect information set forth. It is flawless in nature, containing in itself patterns and rhythms which can be observed, studied, and known if revealed. Therefore, it is our duty and our pleasure to learn this Word, the information contained therein, and put it to use in our lives that we might live to the fullest intended for us.

The quest for knowledge is a great one, but it is largely misunderstood and corrupted…