{"id":2526,"date":"2022-01-06T18:55:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:27:04","slug":"blog-january-6th-message-from-michael-and-merilyn-christian-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2526","title":{"rendered":"Blog January 6th Message from Michael and Merilyn Christian-Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael was the Vicar of Holy Rood who led the Alpha course during which I became a Christian on February 22nd 1997. See blogs http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=85<\/a> and http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=90<\/a>
\nMerilyn, Michael\u2019s wife was also incredibly supportive when I began to compose Christian songs \u2013 please see blog http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=250<\/a>
\nI received a wonderful message from them this Christmas that I have great pleasure in sharing:
\nRecently we have been watching \u201cUniverse\u201d with Brian Cox which shares Hubble telescope glimpses of the Milky Way and beyond, revealing immeasurably extents, immense time scales and the ultimate burn out of our sun. In contemplating it all Brian Cox said \u201cWe don\u2019t need to invent imaginary gods to explain the universe- we can replace them with the real thing.\u201d
\nI wanted to say to him what I said to Richard Dawkins over 50 years ago! (I had a small part in a student mission, a speaker had fallen out and I was asked to second a motion, something like \u201cIs God there?\u201d which Richard Dawkins opposed.) He was not yet a star in the atheistic firmament but I was nervous and inexpert and can\u2019t remember the details, however I did get coffee with speakers afterwards. I said to RD \u201cYou look at the universe as if it is a closed system of cause and effect, but it is bigger than you think \u2013 your view is too limited! \u2026 So is Brian Cox\u2019s!
\nGenesis 1.1 In the beginning God created \u2026 He is outside the box, He made it. He is outside the system, outside all the immeasurables and unimaginables, the wonderful causes and effects that have been discovered. We don\u2019t believe in God in spite of scientific discoveries. We don\u2019t believe in God because of scientific discoveries. We believe because of revelation. We are not inventing something that is not there, but responding to someone who is real beyond imagining, beyond measuring. While creation itself is evidence for God, He is more fully revealed as we celebrate Christmas, In the beginning was the Word \u2026 the Word became flesh and dwelt among us \u2013 inviting us to give our lives to Him.
\nAnd I would add my Amen to that !<\/p>\n

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Great and Marvellous featuring Lucy Stimpson and The Mustard Seed Girls\u2019 Choir recorded live at the Millennium Concert, Crofton Community Centre, Stubbington Michael was the Vicar of Holy Rood who led the Alpha course during which I became a Christian on February 22nd 1997. See blogs http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=85 and http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=90 Merilyn, Michael\u2019s wife was also incredibly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}