CHAPTER 9: A LONG TIME AGO IN A GARDEN, FAR, FAR AWAY
1) What do you think of the description of Sarayu? pg 128
2) What is a fractal? pg 129
3) God created all things good, are all things still good? Explain. pg 131
4) Detail how a good creation is being dragged down. pg 132
5) How and why is it happening?
6) Why is creation full of mysteries? Which ones fascinate you the most?
7) How does Sarayu define freedom? Based on that freedom, are you personally free? Free from what to do what?
8) What might the roots symbolize that Sarayu and Mack are digging up? Is it just good gardening or something more? pg 133
9) Why was it a disaster for humans to have eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
10) Why do people resist the biblical accounts of creation as fantasy and yet accept inconclusive or contradictory scientific theory as fact? pg 134
11) How is your process for determining good from evil different from Mack’s process?
12) What happens when there is no absolute reality to objectively define Good and Evil? pg 135
13) What did eating from the Tree do to man and creation?
14) How much time do you spend trying to acquire what you see as good and avoid what you see as evil? How’s that working for you?
15) What are the implications of “Both evil and darkness can only be understood in relation to Light and Good; They do not have any actual existence”?
16) How does light and good actually exist? What are the relationship implications of that?
17) Why does independent living always result in evil? Are there any exceptions?
18) What is the difference between personal rights and being loved. What are personal rights, where do we get them, how to we keep or enforce them? pg 137
19) What does Sarayu mean “rights are were survivors go, so they won’t have to work out relationships”?
20) What does the garden of your soul look like? Is it a mess or a fractal?. Why do you say that? pg 138
CHAPTER 10: WADE IN THE WATER
1) Was Mack wrong to ask for clarification before he stepped of the dock? pg 140
2) How do you clarify what Jesus is asking you to do?
3) Where do you spend most of your time living, the past, present or future? Explain.
4) What commands your sense of the future? How accurate is it likely to be? pg 142
5) Remember your past projections of the future. Were they accurate? Is life today what you thought it would be 5 years ago? Share the difference with us.
6) How is the earth like a child right now? pg 144
7) What has God demanded of you personally?
8) What marks a genuine relationship? Are your closest relationships like that? How are they different?
9) What is submission all about?
10) How can God be in submission to his creation?
11) What does this mean and imply?: “we want you to join with us in our circle of relationship. I don’t want slaves to my will; I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me”? pg 146
12) How could Jesus be “Mack’s life”?
13) Is and if so how is submission natural?
14) What is the hard part for a woman in returning to God? Why is that hard? Is it hard for you? Why or why not?
14) What is the hard part for a man in returning to God? Is it hard for you? Why or Why Not?
15) What do women turn to instead of God? What are they looking for? Will they find it?
16) What do men turn to instead of God? How well is it working?
17) How is filling roles the opposite of relationship? pg 148
18) How is power the opposite of relationship? pg 149
19) Seriously now, doesn’t someone have to be in charge?
20)What is the only way anyone can submit?
21) Is WWJD a bad idea?
