{"id":2873,"date":"2006-01-26T00:37:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2006-01-26T00:42:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T05:42:49","slug":"creation-and-filicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2006\/01\/creation-and-filicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation and Filicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Faulkner told writers to “kill your darlings” — that is, they should learn to excise lines of prose or turns of phrase that they had come to love like their own child.* A good creator is a willing filicide, always ready to kill her darlings. And who better illustrates this principle than God himself? The world’s great Creator is also its great Filicide.<\/p>\n

The scriptures give many glimpses of a God quick to kill his darlings. This is the God who deluged the antedilivians and rained brimstone on the Canaan plains; this is the God who answered enumeration with infestation<\/a>. This is the advocate who instills the same attitude in his acolytes — and after all, what is the Abrahamic story if not an invitation to join with God in salvific filicide?<\/p>\n

Most importantly, this is the God whose filicidal tendencies find fruition in the Atonement of Christ — the unique product of a God truly willing to kill His Darling. Yes, God is a Filicide, and thank God for that willingness. Without it, all would be lost.<\/p>\n

We are commanded to become like God, whose great work is creative. Thus Faulkner’s admonition blends in to our eternal progression: As we become creators, like unto God, we must embrace a principle of Godly filicide. Our experiences in this journey — perhaps even the process of blog post editing — will teach us how best to kill our darlings. As Gods, we will be required to do no less. <\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

*Thanks to Russell for the source of the quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Faulkner told writers to “kill your darlings” — that is, they should learn to excise lines of prose or turns of phrase that they had come to love like their own child.* A good creator is a willing filicide, always ready to kill her darlings. And who better illustrates this principle than God himself? The world’s great Creator is also its great Filicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}