Sarx

HILE there are some who imagine the vastness of the universe implies the un-truth of the Christian Gospel, I rather like CS Lewis’ science fiction writing on this matter: Earth is the one planet with life that is out of sync. Decades later, we are finding other planets and they may have life, but are they fallen? We don’t know. Larry Norman had no doubt that God would have come to them too, if they needed it. And we saw as much in an episode of the original StarTrek called Bread and Circuses.

How wondrous are your works, O Lord: In wisdom have you wrought them all!

God’s action restores us to the universe. It’s less about the importance of mankind than it is about God. We’re the lump in the gravy, the pea under the mattress. Or, at least, one of them…