I know nothing about William Shatner’s faith, but we Christians should take to heart what he said yesterday after his short flight into space.
“Everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to see the, um…it’s still too…it was unbelievable, unbelievable. I mean, you know, the little things, the weightlessness. But to see the blue color go whoop by, and now you’re staring into blackness – that’s the thing! The covering of blue was… the sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us, we think, ‘Oh, that’s blue sky.’ And then suddenly you shoot through it all of a sudden, as you whip off a sheet off you when you’re asleep, and you’re looking into blackness, into black ugliness, and you look down, there’s the blue down there, and the black up there and it’s… it’s just.. there is Mother Earth and comfort and there is – is there death? I don’t know, is that death? Is that the way death is? Whoop, and it’s gone. Jesus. It was so moving to me. This experience, it’s something unbelievable.”
“I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord… I believe in the Holy Spirit.” Those are the creedal headlines of the deep and rich Christian faith that confesses the Creator of our planet has sent life and immortality to us in the Gospel of Jesus Christ” (2 Timothy 1:10).
“I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now, I don’t want to lose it. It’s so… it’s so much larger than me and life. It hasn’t got anything to do with the little green planet, the blue orb and the – it has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the enormity, and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death and the – oh my God.”
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).