The lectionary for this past Sunday (10/4/09) included the Old Testament account of the creation of woman, from Adam's rib, to provide a helpmate for the first man who had spent his days naming the animals over whom God had conferred man's dominion. Ironically, just that week news accounts had described a new track in our evolutionary ancestry, a 4' tall, long-armed hominid that did not show evidence of knuckle walking or tree-swinging. I am not a creationist (as that term is commonly used), nor an evolutionist: I believe that we live in a created order and that we humans will ultimately be called to account in a day of judgment set by the Creator. But how we humans came into that order has never really interested me as an object of my inquiry. I am more concerned about how we're getting out of it.
Jesus suggested that we focus on heaven. Since He alone has seen it and our meager existence (however it has evolved), I'm willing to accept His suggestion.
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I like your emphasis on the primordial fact that "He alone has seen it." I would like to add that Jesus' vision and experience of heaven - His being "in the bosom of the Father" - is the only way we can make life intelligible and coherent here on earth. But surely you'll agree that Jesus shares and imparts His vision of heaven to those who share in His victory even now - i.e., that Church Triumphant which is the Communion of Saints in heaven? And are not they, together with Him (and all of us who will join them) what the Epistles mean when they speak of "the total Christ"?
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